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Job summary

Main area
Cardiology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
30 hours per week
Job ref
319-6484782RG
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Hexham General Hospital
Town
Hexham
Salary
£22,383 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/08/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Assistant Technical Officer – Cardiographer

NHS AfC: Band 2

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an entheusiastic individual to join the Cardiology team at Hexham Hospital. 

To perform a range of routine and urgent cardiac investigations including 12 Lead 
Electrocardiographs (ECG).
• Fit and remove 24 hour Ambulatory ECG Monitors, Event Recorders and 24 hour Blood 
Pressure(BP) monitors (with ECG) on both in-patients and out-patients. 
• Continually obtain accurate test results from a wide cross section of patients. Maintain 
confidentiality at all times.

Main duties of the job

To perform a range of routine and urgent cardiac investigations including 12 Lead Electrocardiographs (ECG).

Fit and remove 24 hour Ambulatory ECG Monitors, Event Recorders and 24 hour Blood Pressure(BP) monitors (with ECG) on both in-patients and out-patients.

Continually obtain accurate test results from a wide cross section of patients.  Maintain confidentiality at all times.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Performs a basic range of cardiac investigations, mostly covering 12 lead Electrocardiographs (ECG), also includes fitting and removing 24 hour monitors, blood pressure monitors and event recorders.  Performing of cardiac tests includes appropriate skin preparation and correct electrode placement.

Follows set policies and guidelines as set by both trust management and the cardiac society.

Responsible for maintaining, calibration and general care of ECG equipment and to organise the servicing and repairs to ECG equipment as necessary.

May be required to demonstrate to other health professionals and medical students how to perform a 12 lead ECG (normally done as part of the daily ward round routine).

Record ECG test results, Download test results for 24 hour BP monitoring and event recorders and send to relevant consultant secretary.  This includes inputting Patient identification onto ECG machine or computer system.  Keep copies of all outpatient ECG results and sent to both GP and consultant for reporting.  All tests performed are kept in written format and daily and monthly outcomes of tests performed are recorded.  Perform routine clerical duties including covering department reception, answering the telephone and filing test results.

Will be required to keep abreast of developments within the field of Cardiology, to ensure continuity of service provision. Participation in research performing tests and recording data. Involvement in audit and the testing of new equipment.  To maintain a working knowledge of emergency procedures with regard to resuscitation, fire, hazardous substances and potential hazards within the department therefore securing a safe environment for all. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to GCSE standard

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Megan Anderson
Job title
Clinical Physiology Services Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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