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Cardiac Practitioner

Division: Medicine and Emergency Care

Care Group: Specialist Medicine

Band: 4 

Salary: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum

Interview Date: 7th August 2024 

We are recruiting for a Cardiac Practitioner who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Cross site working to provide an ECG service to both in and out patients and to undertake the connection, removal and analysis of Ambulatory ECG’s, Event recorders and 24 hour Blood Pressure monitors. To support the supervising physiologist in Exercise tests and Tilt tests. To learn to take the lead in ETTs and Tilts Table Tests.

There will be a requirement to work at the acute site at Medway Maritime Hospital and at the CDCs in Rochester and Sheppey.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for the organising and prioritising of the in-patient resting ECG and ambulatory ECG service to ensure timely delivery

Undertake ambulatory ECG fitting and downloading. Analyse the recording to produce an accurate report.

Undertake ECG recordings, interpreting results and advising medical and nursing staff of any abnormalities requiring urgent attention.

Undertake ambulatory blood pressure monitor fitting and downloading, ensure that results are dealt with appropriately, as per procedure.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.