Job summary
Employer heading
senior Cardiac Physiologist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
We are seeking Band 6 Cardiac Physiologist to develop in all areas of Cardiac Diagnostics to include; Cardiac catheter procedures, pacemaker implant and follow up for both basic and complex devices, ETT, Tape analysis
We have full Echo services to include DSE,HSE,ESE and TOE. Opportunities to develop in Echo will be option as other skills are achieved to high levels.
We have a community based service additional to the hospital based diagnostics and you will be participant in the team roster to support these services
You will support our training programme affiliated to St Georges and participate in Audit, Educational meetings and team social activities.
Main duties of the job
Accountable to Principle Cardiac Physiologist Manager
To Develop advance diagnostic skills in order to provide a comprehensive invasive
and non-invasive cardiac investigation services within the Trust and to the local
community.
To contribute to the delivery of a safe, high quality cardiac investigation service that
is responsive to both patient and clinicians needs.
To ensure the successful implementation and roll out of any service improvements or
new innovations that will improve the quality and safety of the service. To independently analyse 24 hour tape ECGs. To extend professional training by
completing BSE/HRUK for the proficiency of Echocardiography and complex
pacemakers.
Attained competency in pacemaker follow-ups and implants. To perform cardiac
investigation on wards especially those with high dependency patients and the
critically.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work towards performing and reporting independent Echocardiograms,
maintaining high professional standards of technical competence and ensuring
standards of essence of care at all times or to be working towards BSE accreditation.
To provide independent pacemaker implants and follow up clinic procedures for basic
and complex generator
To be actively performing ECG, Exercise stress testing and reporting.
To obtain and sustain independency in pacemaker clinics and implants.
To independently provide stress exercise test service when required.
To ensure criteria for procedure is correct.
Support junior staff offering advice and guidance as required
To provide independent 24 hour tape analysis.
To take responsibility for the care of the patient whilst undertaking the procedure.
This includes manual handling.
To ensure patient confidentiality is observed at all times and observe the
requirements of the data protection act and freedom of information act.
To be able to provide flexible working hours.
To observe all local rules and the Trust’s employment policies and procedures.
To report equipment failures immediately.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Clinical Physiology or equivalent
- UKRC ILS
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate education and training equivalent to MSc level in relevant cardiology (i.e. BSE/HRUK qualifications)
- RCCP registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of knowledge of all invasive and non-invasive cardiology investigations
- Able to perform and report on investigations without supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experience in training staff
- Experience in Health and Safety procedures
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding the importance of confidentiality
- Knowledge of Data Protection
- IT skills
Desirable criteria
- To be a member of associated Professional bodies: Society of Clinical Cardiac Scientific Officers / British Society of Echocardiograms
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Team working skills
- Able to take responsibility for accurate work
- Ability to work under pressure
- Able to work to deadlines
- Able to work flexible hours
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Trudy Belcher
- Job title
- Senior Chief Cardiac Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 836 4343
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