Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Critical Care directorate to appoint a Clinical Scientist
The post holder will be key in leading on the management of essential Critical care kit and drive forward the educational programme within the Technologist team
You'll be joining a well-established leadership team in helping us achieve excellence.
Main duties of the job
Accountable for the day to day management of the Critical Care Services within PACCS including clinical service planning, manpower management and coordination of all Technical Services within Critical Care.
About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- Provides and performs highly complex specialist and advanced clinical and therapeutic procedures within Critical Care, to adult patients from a range of specialities, suffering from a wide variety of medical disorders who present to Critical Care.
- Has expert knowledge of Critical Care Technology and service provision and co-ordinates all Critical Care Technology Services within PACCS, providing expert advice and guidance to Critical Care Technologists, Consultants, Doctors and Nurses within PACCS and the Evelina Childrens Hospital.
- Responsible for the allocation and deployment of Critical Care Technologists manpower to provide routine maintenance and complex diagnostics including: Point of Care Devices, Blood Gas Machines and analysis, Cardiac Output studies, Ventilators, Monitoring, Cooling Machines, Incubators, Transport Equipment.
- Has a keen interest in new technologies and diagnostics and is able to evaluate their potential use and value to the current services offered.
- Provide expert clinical advice to Doctors, Nurses, Patients and Point of Care Team.
- Continually monitor and maintain high professional standards of the Critical Care Technology services to patients and to initiate remedial action where necessary.
- Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure services meet challenging healthcare needs.
- Provide visible high level leadership and support to Critical Care Technology staff in dealing with difficult and conflicting situations including those that are of a clinical/professional nature.
- Initiate, participate, plan and implement policies.
- Plan, perform, interpret and provide reports on a wide range of physiological investigations to patients of all age groups, without supervision, employing current standard and specialised techniques, taking appropriate action where necessary.
- Initiate and participate with audit programmes.
- Drive and participate in departmental research and development programmes.
- Undertake continual professional development, appropriate to the range of Critical Care Technology services to patients.
- Accountable for all Critical Care Technology equipment and evaluation of equipment, ensuring they are in good working order, asset registered and regularly safety and function tested. In case of equipment failure, effectively communicate with the manufacturers and service contractors to minimise any interruption of service.
- Responsible for the procurement and commissioning of specialist, complex and expensive medical equipment.
Managerial/Leadership/Research
- Responsible for setting the direction of the department and devising the business plans in line with the long term goals of the department.
- Responsible for planning the skill mix and rotas for the department.
- Provide operational management and leadership for Critical Care Technologists.
- Provide line management for Critical Care Technologists, including monitoring of annual leave and sickness absence.
- Manage the day to day budget, authorised signatory and responsible for effective use of resources.
- Is a budget signatory for items totalling <£25K
- Undertake Responsibility for the efficient and effective management of physical resources
- Undertake responsibility for assessing, implementing and adapting to new clinical techniques and technologies.
- Undertake responsibility for the planning and organisation of information resources, ensuring effective and administrative patient reporting and data storage. This includes the archival of all relevant investigative data.
- Provide and maintain statistical information as required for statistical and other management purposes.
- Formulate the health and safety and quality assurance policies to patients, staff and visitors.
- Attend Trust, Regional and National meetings relating to issues of Service provision.
- Work collaboratively with senior managers and clinical colleagues in the formulation of strategic business plans
- Participate in Trust/Regional/National projects
- Responsible for recruitment, appointment and retention of all Critical Care Technologists in line with Trust policies and guidelines.
- Undertake responsibility for counselling, grievance, discipline and welfare matters and, where appropriate, implement disciplinary procedures.
- Responsible for promoting and ensuring equality, diversity and rights for all.
- To be responsible for research and development, including ethics submission for delivery of Critical Care Technologies.
Education, Training and Development
- Full line management for all technologists within the service.
- Plan, implement and monitor education and training of Critical Care Technologists and other staff groups in line with mandatory, professional and personal development according to service needs, taking remedial action as necessary.
- Conduct training presentations at national level to large conferences.
- Undertake appraisal and performance development reviews ensuring that poor competence is subject to remedial action.
- Ensure that all staff comply with CPD guidelines, professional codes of conduct and evaluate the effect of development on service delivery.
- Undertake responsibility for the development and implementation of teaching and training programmes at all levels for Critical Care Technology services.
- Participate in teaching to a broad range of healthcare workers, including medical, nursing and healthcare scientists.
- Undertake responsibility for the formulation of individual training plans and funding, to support staff development and training needs.
- Ensure personal compliance with CPD guidelines, professional codes of conduct and evaluate the effect of development on service delivery.
Clinical Governance and Audit
- Develop, implement, maintain and upgrade professional and local policies and procedures and clinical standards/protocols/guidelines.
- Initiate and implement audit to ensure compliance with and the development of local policies, procedures and clinical standard/protocols and guidelines.
- Ensure patient and public involvement in the development of services.
- Respond to any complaints regarding the service and to report the findings to the Trust in accordance with local procedure and to take remedial action if appropriate.
- Work within agreed Trust and local policies and protocols.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- Provides and performs highly complex specialist and advanced clinical and therapeutic procedures within Critical Care, to adult patients from a range of specialities, suffering from a wide variety of medical disorders who present to Critical Care.
- Has expert knowledge of Critical Care Technology and service provision and co-ordinates all Critical Care Technology Services within PACCS, providing expert advice and guidance to Critical Care Technologists, Consultants, Doctors and Nurses within PACCS and the Evelina Childrens Hospital.
- Responsible for the allocation and deployment of Critical Care Technologists manpower to provide routine maintenance and complex diagnostics including: Point of Care Devices, Blood Gas Machines and analysis, Cardiac Output studies, Ventilators, Monitoring, Cooling Machines, Incubators, Transport Equipment.
- Has a keen interest in new technologies and diagnostics and is able to evaluate their potential use and value to the current services offered.
- Provide expert clinical advice to Doctors, Nurses, Patients and Point of Care Team.
- Continually monitor and maintain high professional standards of the Critical Care Technology services to patients and to initiate remedial action where necessary.
- Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure services meet challenging healthcare needs.
- Provide visible high level leadership and support to Critical Care Technology staff in dealing with difficult and conflicting situations including those that are of a clinical/professional nature.
- Initiate, participate, plan and implement policies.
- Plan, perform, interpret and provide reports on a wide range of physiological investigations to patients of all age groups, without supervision, employing current standard and specialised techniques, taking appropriate action where necessary.
- Initiate and participate with audit programmes.
- Drive and participate in departmental research and development programmes.
- Undertake continual professional development, appropriate to the range of Critical Care Technology services to patients.
- Accountable for all Critical Care Technology equipment and evaluation of equipment, ensuring they are in good working order, asset registered and regularly safety and function tested. In case of equipment failure, effectively communicate with the manufacturers and service contractors to minimise any interruption of service.
- Responsible for the procurement and commissioning of specialist, complex and expensive medical equipment.
Managerial/Leadership/Research
- Responsible for setting the direction of the department and devising the business plans in line with the long term goals of the department.
- Responsible for planning the skill mix and rotas for the department.
- Provide operational management and leadership for Critical Care Technologists.
- Provide line management for Critical Care Technologists, including monitoring of annual leave and sickness absence.
- Manage the day to day budget, authorised signatory and responsible for effective use of resources.
- Is a budget signatory for items totalling <£25K
- Undertake Responsibility for the efficient and effective management of physical resources
- Undertake responsibility for assessing, implementing and adapting to new clinical techniques and technologies.
- Undertake responsibility for the planning and organisation of information resources, ensuring effective and administrative patient reporting and data storage. This includes the archival of all relevant investigative data.
- Provide and maintain statistical information as required for statistical and other management purposes.
- Formulate the health and safety and quality assurance policies to patients, staff and visitors.
- Attend Trust, Regional and National meetings relating to issues of Service provision.
- Work collaboratively with senior managers and clinical colleagues in the formulation of strategic business plans
- Participate in Trust/Regional/National projects
- Responsible for recruitment, appointment and retention of all Critical Care Technologists in line with Trust policies and guidelines.
- Undertake responsibility for counselling, grievance, discipline and welfare matters and, where appropriate, implement disciplinary procedures.
- Responsible for promoting and ensuring equality, diversity and rights for all.
- To be responsible for research and development, including ethics submission for delivery of Critical Care Technologies.
Education, Training and Development
- Full line management for all technologists within the service.
- Plan, implement and monitor education and training of Critical Care Technologists and other staff groups in line with mandatory, professional and personal development according to service needs, taking remedial action as necessary.
- Conduct training presentations at national level to large conferences.
- Undertake appraisal and performance development reviews ensuring that poor competence is subject to remedial action.
- Ensure that all staff comply with CPD guidelines, professional codes of conduct and evaluate the effect of development on service delivery.
- Undertake responsibility for the development and implementation of teaching and training programmes at all levels for Critical Care Technology services.
- Participate in teaching to a broad range of healthcare workers, including medical, nursing and healthcare scientists.
- Undertake responsibility for the formulation of individual training plans and funding, to support staff development and training needs.
- Ensure personal compliance with CPD guidelines, professional codes of conduct and evaluate the effect of development on service delivery.
Clinical Governance and Audit
- Develop, implement, maintain and upgrade professional and local policies and procedures and clinical standards/protocols/guidelines.
- Initiate and implement audit to ensure compliance with and the development of local policies, procedures and clinical standard/protocols and guidelines.
- Ensure patient and public involvement in the development of services.
- Respond to any complaints regarding the service and to report the findings to the Trust in accordance with local procedure and to take remedial action if appropriate.
- Work within agreed Trust and local policies and protocols.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in a relevant scientific subject e.g. Physiology, Biomedical Science etc.
- Registered Critical Care Technologist or equivalent
- MSc in relevant science subject or equivalent experience
Desirable
- HCPC registration as a Clinical Scientist
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in a technical role in a busy Critical Care environment
- Significant proven management of staff, developing a service and budget management.
- Evidence of leadership, teambuilding and education of a team.
- Experience of working in a large multidisciplinary team
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- Expert knowledge of Critical Care equipment including Point of Care devices.
- Significant experience with equipment management procedures guidelines and legislation
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to all staff (managers, medical staff, nursing staff etc.)
- Ability to plan and prioritise clinical workload, budget and financial planning with deadlines
- Ability to adapt to change in a busy environment
Desirable
- In depth knowledge of IT Systems and clinical information processing, storage and interfaces
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in a relevant scientific subject e.g. Physiology, Biomedical Science etc.
- Registered Critical Care Technologist or equivalent
- MSc in relevant science subject or equivalent experience
Desirable
- HCPC registration as a Clinical Scientist
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in a technical role in a busy Critical Care environment
- Significant proven management of staff, developing a service and budget management.
- Evidence of leadership, teambuilding and education of a team.
- Experience of working in a large multidisciplinary team
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- Expert knowledge of Critical Care equipment including Point of Care devices.
- Significant experience with equipment management procedures guidelines and legislation
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to all staff (managers, medical staff, nursing staff etc.)
- Ability to plan and prioritise clinical workload, budget and financial planning with deadlines
- Ability to adapt to change in a busy environment
Desirable
- In depth knowledge of IT Systems and clinical information processing, storage and interfaces
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.
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).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
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).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
