Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiac/respiratory Physiology
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (.)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 236-SCO-CS261-24
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salford Royal and Community Hubs
- Town
- Eccles
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 Pa Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Technical Officer
Band 3
Job overview
Cardiorespiratory Investigations are employing additional Assistant Technical Officers. The successful candidates will be working in the Community diagnostic hubs and at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust to support Cardiology, Respiratory and Phlebotomy. Experience in any diagnostic techniques to support these investigations will be beneficial.
Main duties of the job
Patients are transferred for diagnostic tests as in-patients, outpatients, from general practitioners and other hospitals.
- Provides a high quality efficient and effective Cardiorespiratory investigations service to the local population.
- Unsupervised recording of Electrocardiograms and routine pulmonary function tests
- Application and Removal and safe handling of cardiac event recorders BP and sleep monitors
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Essential Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- General education to A-level of 3 GCSE’s or equivalent
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of performing electrocardiograms
- Experience of performing pulmonary function tests
- Experience of setting up, applying and downloading 24 hr ambulatory BP recorders
- Experience of setting up, applying and downloading 24/48 hr ambulatory ECG recorders
- Previous experience of working in a cardiology and/or respiratory department
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Gill Taberner
- Job title
- Principle Cardiac Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 206 4751
- Additional information
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