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Job summary

Main area
Cardiology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
9 months (9 month fixed term contract)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm)
Job ref
292-6855480-MED
Employer
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Town
Harlow
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/01/2025 08:00

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The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust logo

Cardiac Physiologist

NHS AfC: Band 7

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping. 

Our values

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts. 

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.


 

Job overview

To work efficiently within a multi-disciplinary team providing a service of basic and more complex investigations within the Trust and services offered by the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Perform a variety of diagnostic tests for the cardiac assessment unit following a daily workload schedule as instructed.

To provide written reports for all investigations.

Communicate effectively with other staff members.

Organisation of departmental diaries and day to day service provision.

Assist with writing and development of department protocols

Support education, training and personal development of other team members.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.  

Person specification

essential

Essential criteria
  • Cardiac physiologist degree or equivalent
  • BSE accreditation or equivalent
  • Minimum 2 years of echo experience

Desirable

Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of a broad range of cardiac diagnostic tests inc ECG, ETT, holters and analysis, pacemakers and angiography
  • Previous experience of specialist echo incl TOE, LVO, bubble, DSE

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jo Everitt
Job title
Lead Physiologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01279 978341
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