Job overview
Cardiac Physiologist - Band 6
Contract - Fixed term for 12 Months. Full-time 37.5 hours per week
To conduct routine cardiac diagnostic procedures:
Electrocardiography, echocardiography (performing and reporting adult echos), exercise tolerance tests.
Holter monitoring including ECG, BP and Event recording
Pacemaker checks.
Over the past 17 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 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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Sometimes perform 24 hours Holter ECG, BP and event recorder monitoring, both procedure and analysis.
Record pressures and ensure the patients wellbeing during diagnostic procedures.
Train physiologist and medical staff in all areas of cardiac physiology.
Clinical admin work.
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
The physiologist will need to perform and report adult 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.
Clinical admin work which involves maintaining the diagnostic data bases.
Person specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
1. Cardiac physiology degree or equivalent
2. 2 years NHS experience in cardiac physiology
3. 1 year experience in performing and reporting Echocardiograms and pacemaker checks
4. Performing and reporting exercise tolerance tests
Desirable criteria
5. Some experience of independently performing and reporting echocardiograms
6. Experience in supervising junior members of staff
7. ILS trained
8. RCCP registered
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
9. Independently conduct and report adult TTE
10. Independently conduct and report pacemaker follow ups
11. Independently conduct and report ETT
12. Analyse Holter monitors.
Desirable criteria
13. Have some experience in teaching cardiac physiologists, nurses and medical studants
Cardiology knowledge and practical skills
Essential criteria
14. Good understanding of all non-invasive diagnostic testing and theory behind the test.
15. Trouble shooting during tests
16. Good demonstration of team work and accountability
Desirable criteria
17. Knowledge of cardiac diseases and their treatments
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:
18. 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.
19. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
20. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
21. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
22. Participate in required training and supervision.
23. 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.