Job summary
Employer heading
Healthcare Scientist Associate
NHS AfC: Band 4
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
- To work as a team with the associate practitioners, nursing assistants and healthcare scientist assistants to ensure the smooth running of daily clinics within cardiology outpatients and community cardiology clinics.
- Provide a range of cardiac physiological procedures accessible to the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and local GP practices.
- Support clerical staff to ensure the collection and availability of administration and clinical data (reception/clinical database entry/filing)
- Support and deliver orientation and training to staff within and as appropriate.
- Liaise with other staff to ensure that patients receive cardiac physiology procedures (E.G. 12-lead electrocardiogram, Ambulatory ECG, Ambulatory BP) requested by clinical staff in the delivery of health care.
- To be a member of the interdisciplinary team, contributing to and delivering effective, quality care of cardiac patients.
- To respect and maintain confidentiality in all matters relating to the Unit and patients.
- To keep the Unit well maintained, stocked and tidy, while adhering to health and safety policies
Main duties of the job
- To work without direct supervision in obtaining physiological data from patients (adults, children and neonates) from ECG recordings and other observations and phlebotomy where training permits.
- Present accurate procedure results to appropriate clinical staff.
- To obtain patient consent for the procedure, ensuring correct information governance procedures are followed.
- To understand and troubleshoot significant findings and artefacts on recording ECGs and identify and utilise alternative recording technique.
- To recognise a deteriorating patient and summon help when needed.
- Maintain and update as appropriate, knowledge and skills required to record and provide first-line analysis/interpretation of results from a range of physiological procedures.
- Contribute to the maintenance, development and implementation of local operating procedures and policies
Closing date: 25/08/2022 11:59pm
Working for our organisation
- To contribute to the continuing development of professional cardiac physiology practice within the unit, embracing new ideas and changes for the benefit of patient care
- To keep up to date with clinical practice issues relating to the specific speciality.
- To take responsibility for own personal and professional growth and for maintaining a record of professional development experiences
- To complete agreed local and Trust competency frameworks and take active responsibility for having an annual appraisal with a relevant personal development plan that is review with the mentor at 3 monthly intervals
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To support, supervise, orientate and train new and less experienced cardiology outpatient support workers, volunteers and students and assist with completion of appropriate documentation
- To act as a mentor/buddy to junior cardiology outpatient support workers following appropriate training with support from cardiology outpatient staff and assist with completion of appropriate documentation.
- To liaise with the outpatient senior nurse to organise duties.
- To escort patient between clinical environments of the cardiology outpatient unit and hospital.
- To take responsibility for the organisation, storage and maintenance of equipment for the Unit.
- To collect and deliver equipment interdepartmentally and throughout the hospital.
- To order stock items as requested by service lead.
- To follow local policy for the receipt of all items (stock and non stock)
- To ensure staff are aware of and follow local policy for the loan of equipment to other departments.
- To ensure any faulty equipment is removed from service immediately cleaned appropriately, labelled correctly and sent for repair (according to Trust policy)
- To be aware of, report and take immediate initial action regarding any potential hazards
Person specification
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Essential criteria
- Add “2” for interview, “0” for rejected
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Robert Bunce
- Job title
- Lead Echocardiographer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 734364
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