A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
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 are 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.
To be successful in your application you should have specialist knowledge in a range of diagnostics preformed within cardiology including interpretation of 12 lead ECGs and ambulatory monitors. You must act as a senior physiologist undertaking training of other physiologists or staff groups when required. You should act as a role model to others adopting an inclusive and supportive leadership style.
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
• Required to 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.
• Willingness to be trained in adult echocardiography.
• Training of junior technical staff.
• To provide technical leadership to ensure highest standards of skill, interpretation, reporting and treatments are developed and maintained within resource constraints.
• To maintain confidentiality at all times.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Aug 2025
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