Job overview

The Lancashire Cardiac Centre is a tertiary cardiac provider for the people of Lancashire & Cumbria. The centre has well-established invasive and non-invasive services covering a wide range of diagnostic and treatment including;

Cardiac intervention, Structural cardiac procedures including:TAVI, ASD & PFO closure, device implants including ICD’s and CRT’s, EP & mapping procedures.

We are looking to recruit a highly experienced cardiac sonographer who will relish the challenge of leading the team, to take our outstanding echocardiography unit forward into the future. The successful candidate will work closely with clinical and management teams to manage and develop this busy service.

The successful candidate will work with the highly specialised team to perform over 13,000 TTE’s 650 Dobutamine & Exercise Stress Echocardiography each year as well as the advanced techniques within Cardiac Ultrasound such as, Transoesophageal & Contrast Echocardiography. As part of our tertiary centre work we also provide Paediatric and Adult Congenital Echocardiography in partnership with Liverpool and Alder Hey.

You should be BSE accredited, possess BSc in clinical physiology or equivalent and have extensive advanced clinical knowledge and skills. We are looking for an individual with proven leadership and management experience to lead the highly skilled team.

Main duties of the job

To autonomously manage, co-ordinate and direct all activities associated with the Echocardiography Service in the Lancashire Cardiac Centre at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. The post-holder will be responsible for the  cardiac physiologists working within the speciality. They will be the expert technical lead for the Lancashire and South Cumbria (LSC) region and develop patient pathways and protocols for service delivery.

The postholder will be a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and skilled cardiac physiologist working as an independently practitioner to directly deliver patient care and well-being for the patients across LSC.

This post will require 50% clinical commitment.

To have some responsibility of the management of the Cardiac Investigations Unit (CIU) with the other Specialist Area Managers. 

To be committed to the development of all individuals, providing a strong sense of direction for all the Echocardiographic team

To organise and lead departmental meetings, training programmes and other developmental sessions 

 To implement departmental audit to ensure compliance with and development of professional and local policies, ensuring high quality service delivery

 To be responsible for setting standards and to  develop and update these to  incorporate current professional recommendations and evidence based practice

To attend Trust, Regional and National meetings relating to issues of service provision

Working for our organisation

The Lancashire Cardiac Centre is a stand alone centre serving our own population and that across our network. The Cardiac Investigations Unit is a professional and friendly diagnostic service with over 60 staff,  based within the  modern centre. We have a dedicated and successful cardiac physiology training  academy to encourage/support ongoing education  and development of our staff. 

 Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, and offers a full range of district hospital services and community health services to a population of 1.6 million in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty-five-minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac, Haematology and Cystic fibrosis patients.