Job Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and driven individual to join our team. We are an innovative and stimulating department, offering high quality, safe and compassionate care to patients and their relatives. We deliver high quality training and have recently been awarded Training Hospital of the Year by BJCA. We have excellent links with Health Education England BHRS and BSE. We empower our physiologists and offer development into Physiologist Lead Services.
We have a thriving Cardiac Rhythm Management service with regular hybrid clinics involving a specialist CRM consultant and specialist cardiac physiologist. We also have an established support group for our patients and have been shortlisted for awards recognising quality improvement and innovation.
We run a catheter laboratory offering diagnostic angiography and implant of pacemakers and defibrillators. We also offer regular support to allied accreditation bodies such as Heart Rhythm Society and British Society of Echocardiography and have highly skilled staff who have represented us at their associated national conferences.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Responsibilities
* Perform, supervise and report a broad range of cardiac investigations including 12‑Lead Electrocardiographs (ECG), fit and remove 24‑hour Ambulatory ECG Monitors, Event Recorders and 24‑hour Blood Pressure Monitors (with ECG), Exercise Tolerance Testing (ETT), Ambulatory ECG Analysis, Event Recorder Analysis.
* Pacemaker implants and follow‑up clinics on both in‑patients and out‑patients.
* Provide technical leadership to ensure highest standards of skill, interpretation, reporting and treatments are developed and maintained within resource constraints.
* Train junior technical staff.
* Maintain confidentiality at all times.
* Role‑model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape a collective leadership culture within the trust, engaging, enabling and empowering others, using coaching to promote learning and quality improvement, and facilitating team working and collaboration across departments and organisational boundaries.
Person Specification – Qualifications / Professional Registration
* Formal training through Clinical Physiology degree, extensive post‑qualification experience.
* Relevant professional courses and qualifications such as interpretation, Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Techniques and Practice, Cardiac pacing courses including dual‑chamber optimisation and basic echocardiography.
* NVQ D32 Assessors qualification or equivalent to assess degree students.
Experience and Knowledge
* Extensive post‑qualification experience (essential).
* Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools (desirable).
* Knowledge of or experience in quality improvement tools, techniques and methods (desirable).
* Appropriate training and experience with pacing, implant and follow‑up pacing clinics (desirable).
Training and Accreditation
Desirable if candidate is working towards or has attained BHRS accreditation or equivalent. ALS qualification also desirable.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer Details
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Wansbeck General Hospital, Woodhorn Lane, Ashington, NE63 9JJ
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