Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to join our small friendly team in the Cardiac Investigations at Whittington Health NHS Trust, North London
We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and knowledgeable Cardiac Physiologist to work as a Chief Cardiac physiologist specialising in Adult and Paediatric echocardiography.
You will have a degree in cardiac physiology or other relevant qualifications plus relevant experience in adult and paediatric echocardiography.
BSE or equivalent echo accreditation is highly desirable.
The cardiac investigations department is a small busy department and comprises of a team of cardiac physiologists providing full non-invasive diagnostic investigations to inpatients and outpatients across the wider community.
We currently run 2 adult echo lists per day, including stress echo, contrast and bubble echo, and have 2 portable machines for the inpatient lists. We also provide support to the Paediatric department and provide a paediatric echo list once a week, therefore paediatric experience is essential.
There is further scope for training in pacemaker follow up for the right candidate. The post holder will also be involved in training junior physiologist and medical staff. The trust is committed to funding CPD.
Over the past 15 years the Clinical and Academic Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Whittington Health has consistently been awarded a customer excellence award, the national standard for customer service excellence.
Main duties of the job
To conduct routine procedures include:
Echocardiography (performing and reporting adult and paediatric echos)
And from time to time conducting:
Electrocardiography
Exercise Testing
Holter monitoring including ECG, BP and Event recording.
Over the past 15 years the Clinical and Academic Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Whittington Health has consistently been awarded a customer excellence award, the national standard for customer service excellence.
The department is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team including five Cardiology Consultants providing a full diagnostic cardiovascular service to the hospital and local general practitioners.
Over many years, our department has pioneered services that have bridged the divide between different parts of the National Health Service. This opportunity has become more apparent with the establishment of Whittington Health as an integrated care organisation following the merger of the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust with Islington Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Haringey PCT, becoming the first integrated care organisation (ICO) in the United Kingdom.
Working for our organisation
Working for your organisation should read: Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Perform and report adult and paediatric Echocardiograms.
Perform, supervise, and report Cardiac exercise testing as a service to the hospital consultants and open access GP requests. In addition, patients must be examined with relation to the contraindications of exercise testing especially when performing GP open access assessments.
Perform and report pacemaker checks.
Perform 24 hours Holter ECG, BP and event recorder monitoring, both procedure and analysis.
Train physiologist and medical staff in all areas of cardiac physiology.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
1. BSc cardiac physiology or equivalent
2. BSE accredited or equivalant
Desirable criteria
3. At least 2 years experience in NHS or equivalent setting
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
4. Recognise situations requiring medical involvement.
5. Ability to analyse & interpret data to standard consummate with the grade of post
6. Up to date knowledge in the preforming and reporting of adult and paediatric Echocardiography
Desirable criteria
7. Knowledge in Paediatric echocardiography
8. ILS certified
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
9. Performing and reporting adult Echos
10. ECG performance & interpretation
11. Analysis of Holter recording
Desirable criteria
12. Performing and reporting paediatric Echos.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
13. Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
14. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
15. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
16. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
17. Participate in required training and supervision.
18. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.