Job overview
Buckinghamshire NHS Trust are keen to recruit an enthusiastic Cardiac Associate Practitioner to join our friendly non-invasive service.
The successful candidate should have experience working in a healthcare setting, ideally within in the field of Cardiology.
Experience performing 12 lead ECGs is essential for this role.
Main duties include performing 12 lead ECGs, fitting and removing Holter monitors and automated blood pressure monitors, assisting with exercise tolerance testing and assisting with tilt table testing.
Main duties of the job
1. Perform ECGs to a high standard in accordance with SCST guidelines and department minimum standards, with sufficient experience and knowledge to deviate from policy as required to obtain a clinically relevant study.
2. Sole responsibility for acquisition of complex clinical information and applying theory to deliver an accurate test, including the basic interpretation and recording of information you personally acquire and technical problem solving.
3. Obtain relevant clinical information by reading request forms in order to proactively tailor the study for each individual patient.
4. Identify and advise when an ECG is insufficient to answer the clinical question and proactively suggest alternative/additional investigations.
5. Perform non routine ECG investigations eg, carotid sinus stimulation working with a consultant cardiologist.
6. Review studies by other health care professions including across disciplines eg, Doctors/Nurses and provide specialist advice on recording of ECGs’ including where there is a difference of opinion.
7. Assist supervising physiologist including recording of ECG and Blood Pressure, checking adequate stock levels of consumables, record keeping and patient care.
8. Produce accurate recording for each test with responsibility for your own caseload and apply technical and clinical theory to proactively adapt the test to each patient including technical problem solving. Responsible for keeping adequate stock levels of consumables.
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Person specification
Training
Essential criteria
9. Commitment to undertake training needed for role.
Desirable criteria
10. ILS or BLS certification
Experience
Essential criteria
11. Experience of working in a healthcare setting.
12. Experience of working with ECG equipment.
13. Experience working with Cardiology
Skills
Essential criteria
14. Must have good IT skills.
15. Must have good communication skills, both written and verbal.
16. Specialist training in a minimum of one discipline with evidence of maintenance and development of skills to the level required for department minimum standards.
Desirable criteria
17. Experience of Holter monitoring.
18. Able to obtain a manual blood pressure measurement.
Special circumstances
Essential criteria
19. Must be able to work flexibly when the service requires this, including cross-site travel.
Desirable criteria
20. Able to move heavy equipment using safe manual handling technique.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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