Specialist Cardiac Physiologist

Job Overview

The Cardiology Investigations Unit (CIU) provides a range of diagnostic testing, invasive and non-invasive for both in-patients and outpatients.

As a vital member of the Echocardiography department you will perform and report increasingly advanced echocardiograms with supervision available from Advance Cardiac Physiologist.

You will be working towards Level 2 accreditation with the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) in adult trans-thoracic echo (TTE).

You will be expected to provide training support and education to less experienced student, colleagues, cardiology SPR and junior doctors.

Main duties of the job

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• As a Specialist cardiac physiologist, analyse and interpret the large volumes of interdependent and complex data acquired during TTE to conclude the correct diagnosis.
• Following interpretation of the images and data generated during TTE, produce a clinical report of the echocardiographic findings. Perform diagnostic echocardiography in a wide range of complex clinical settings, including Specialist Valve Assessment.
• Interpret and report on the complex imaging and data generated when performing TTE in the above patient cohorts (senior review required).
• Perform Transthoracic Echo independently, in accordance with BSE guidelines and department standards.
• To review, maintain and develop agreed standards of documentation in accordance with BSE guidelines and department minimum standards, in liaison with Lead Echo Physiologist.
• Responsibility for archiving of data to appropriate places as per trust policies.
• To review, maintain and develop agreed standards of documentation in accordance with BSE guidelines and department minimum standards, in liaison with Lead Echo Physiologist.
• Identify areas requiring improvement/development and suggests ways of achieving improvements.
• Although the post-holder may occasionally perform TTE under remote supervision, practice is guided by national and departmental guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures; reports/outcomes are routinely checked for diagnostic accuracy.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable employment experience in performing TTE
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrable employment experience in performing TTE.
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to perform Transthoracic Echo independently, in accordance with BSE guidelines and department standards.
• Ability to work independently
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and had experience assisting in Stress echocardiogram, Transoesophageal echocardiogram.
• Knowledge in strain analysis and 4D echocardiography
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• BSc (Hons) in Clinical Physiology/ relevant science subject or equivalent knowledge through work experience
• Post grad diploma or competence-based assessment in relevant field
  
  

Desirable criteria

• RCCP or Registration with the Health Care Professions Council as a Healthcare Science Practitioner through graduation of the Practitioner Training Programme (PTP), or approved PTP equivalence.
• Theoretical knowledge is developed further through part-time study of a MSc in Echocardiography; attendance at the weekly educational meetings of the echocardiography department; attendance at local national education events and conferences; self-study in all areas of echocardiography.
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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