Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Formal training through Clinical Physiology degree, extensive post qualification experience
- Relevant professional courses and qualifications e.g. interpretation, Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Techniques and Practice, Cardiac pacing courses including dual chamber optimization and basic echocardiography
- NVQ D32 Assessors qualification or equivalent to assess degree students
Desirable
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Extensive post qualification experience
Desirable
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
- Appropriate training and experience with Pacing, implant and follow up pacing clinics.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Formal training through Clinical Physiology degree, extensive post qualification experience
- Relevant professional courses and qualifications e.g. interpretation, Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Techniques and Practice, Cardiac pacing courses including dual chamber optimization and basic echocardiography
- NVQ D32 Assessors qualification or equivalent to assess degree students
Desirable
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Extensive post qualification experience
Desirable
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
- Appropriate training and experience with Pacing, implant and follow up pacing clinics.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
