Band 7 Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiography)

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 22 January 2025

Job summary

Here at Heartlands Hospital we have an exciting opportunity to join our team of 10 Echocardiographers. As a large DGH we have 6 echo rooms within the hospital and support echo services within a newly opened community diagnostic centre. Full time members of staff operate over a 4 day working week between hours 8-6 and use both Phillips and GE, 2D and 3D technology with ISCV reporting facilities.

Current Echocardiographer-led services include: bubble, LV contrast , valve-surveillance clinics, Echocardiographer-led Tran-oesophageal echo and are working towards Echocardiographer-led stress echo services

We actively encourage staff CPD and offer a range of developmental opportunities in clinical and non-clinical areas to include, course/conference attendance, management and leadership development programs, teaching , training and assessment qualifications.

As part of a large trust we have good relationships with all 3 additional hospital sites and support a range of training programs to include: PTP, STP,ETP as well as in house echo trainees. As a trust we have an have excellent track record for supporting people through the BSE accreditation to include: Adult TTE, TOE, Stress and EACVI CHD accreditation.

Main duties of the job

As part of your role you will perform and report adult transthoracic echocardiograms to support inpatient and outpatient services. You may assist or train to perform/lead advanced echo procedures such as bubble and LV contrast studies, stress and transoesphageal echocardiograms. In addition, you will support Outpatient clinics at a nearby community diagnostic centre on a rotational basis. Our department offers a 4-day working week between the hours of 8-6.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date posted

13 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

304-9004560YS

Job locations

Heartlands Hospital

Bordesley Green E

Birmingham

West Midlands

B9 5SS

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc in Clinical Physiology (or equivalent) or Masters in Cardiac Science or equivalent
Highly specialist knowledge of Clinical Physiology in at least one area to Masters level or equivalent.
Adult TTE BSE Accreditation
RCCP /AHCS Registered or able to register.

Experience

Essential

Experience and scientific knowledge through formal study, training and practice in highly complex and specialized Cardiac investigations. (E)
Supervisory experience.
Experience in the use of PCs and data entry.
Experience of Cardiology IT storage systems.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc in Clinical Physiology (or equivalent) or Masters in Cardiac Science or equivalent
Highly specialist knowledge of Clinical Physiology in at least one area to Masters level or equivalent.
Adult TTE BSE Accreditation
RCCP /AHCS Registered or able to register.

Experience

Essential

Experience and scientific knowledge through formal study, training and practice in highly complex and specialized Cardiac investigations. (E)
Supervisory experience.
Experience in the use of PCs and data entry.
Experience of Cardiology IT storage systems.

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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