Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (There will be block weeks of learning outside the Trust)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (4 days on site, one day learning)
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1355
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex Hospital
- Town
- LONDON
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 Band 6 as funded by HEE pro-rata inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Trainee Echocardiographer
NHS AfC: Band 6
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an 18-month fixed term full-time training post in Echocardiography. This is part of the Echocardiography Training Programme developed by the National School of Healthcare Science and funded by Health Education England.
Successful candidates will be trained to BSE adult accreditation level 2 and will be awarded a Post-graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography. The individual will be supervised in becoming proficient in echocardiography by already accredtited team of echocardiographers.
The trainee will work closely with the training coordinator/officer and more senior members of staff to follow the curriculum for the Echocardiography Training Programme.
The trainee will work in specified areas of the department and be responsible to the Designated Training Coordinator/Officer for their own work and progression through the scheme.
Main duties of the job
The trainee will undertake the full training programme in order to progress through the academic and practical elements of the training scheme. In so doing they will learn how to perform and interpret clinical and specialist scientific processes underpinned by theoretical and applied knowledge and practical experience and will learn how to:
- perform and interpret routine cardiac investigations
- perform specialised diagnostics investigations
- carry out complex scientific and clinical roles, including those working directly with patients
- analyse and interpret and data compare investigative and clinical options
- make judgements, including clinical and differential judgements, involving complicated facts or situations that impact on patients
- initiate and undertake innovation, improvement and R&D and be involved in the education of healthcare science trainees and other learners in the workplace
- carry out audit to continuously improve patient care and service needs
- participate in the training and development of both external university students and junior team members
- communicate and interact effectively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure a positive patient experience
- assist the Principal Cardiac Physiologist and other senior members of the team in the day to day organisation and delivery of the cardiothoracic diagnostic service
Working for our organisation
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.
Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing.
We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.
For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
They will be expected to complete all work-based training and assessment alongside the academic course to exit the programme with eligibility for registration with the BSE and the Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS). Trainees must meet the AHCS Standards of proficiency for Healthcare Science Practitioners.
Post qualification and with appropriate additional experience and competencies, graduates from this scheme would be eligible to apply for Clinical Scientist equivalence and HCPC registration.
In addition, they will be expected to undertake work-based experience to enable them to communicate complex technical, scientific and sensitive information to colleagues within their department in both verbal and written forms.
Delivery of patient care – experience and contribution in the following areas:
- Provide support to specialist clinics and specialist treatment interventions.
- Perform, report and interpret a range of investigations undertaken indirectly for or directly with patients within a range of care settings
- Specialist care and treatment interventions for patients across the range of clinical pathways and health care settings
- Appropriate clinical and scientific advice and interpretation of analytical results.
- Participate in multidisciplinary meetings
- Apply and promote evidence based practice and use of relevant clinical protocols and procedures
- Ensuring that all equipment used on patients and the public is handled and applied in accordance with health and safety requirements and other national or international guidelines
Education and learning
- Successfully complete the training and assessment programme in conjunction with the local Training Coordinator and designated Academic institution to achieve certified competence awarded by the BSE.
- Undertake suitable training within the host department and other placements to successfully acquire core competencies and there-after maintain the required standards of competence when undertaking duties.
- Take responsibility for own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn, including appraisal, supervision, academic course and problem based learning and maintaining a personal portfolio of learning.
- Ensure that own learning needs, identified with the Training officer and reflecting the requirements of the curriculum, are met.
- Retain sufficient flexibility and adaptability in learning in order to ensure full contribution to improving services in response to changing health care needs.
- Maintain knowledge of recent scientific developments and under-take supplementary training to develop both knowledge and skills.
- Attend mandatory training (both vocational and academic) as required.
- Participate in internal and external assessment processes
Communication
- Communication and interpretation of complex clinical, scientific and technical information to a wide range of people including clinicians, managers, patients and the public.
- Liaise with senior scientists and clinical users of the service on appropriateness of investigations, interventions and tests.
Quality audit
- Contribute to audits to inform patient management and clinical care
- Contribute to quality audits relating to accreditation and regulation
- Perform quality assurance, process and outcomes audits relevant to the specialty.
Clinical governance
- Maintain standards for health and safety procedures
- Comply with quality and governance procedures within the department including risk management and risk mitigation
- Maintain high standards of professional and personal conduct
- Ensure that patient safety and experience and effectiveness of service are maximised.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- A 1st or 2:1 in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific subject (examples include Physiology, Pure or Applied Physics, Biology or Human Biology, or Sports Science (if significant scientific content) or equivalent experience and appropriate underpinning knowledge and skills in cardiology – as evidenced for example by appropriate voluntary registration with the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists or Academy for Healthcare Science.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Has an understanding of the role of an Echocardiographer in healthcare and disease and its application in a healthcare setting.
- A committed, in depth interest in Echocardiography and its application to direct Previous experience in performing ECGs Application/Interview Application/interview
- Knowledge acquired through study and experience to formulate appropriate advice and judgements, including clinical judgements involving facts or situations that impact on patients.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in performing ECGs
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working in a hospital setting in a science bank ground role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- ANTONIS TIPPER
- Job title
- LEAD CARDIAXC PHYSIOLOGIST
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088872855
- Additional information
More info about the course can be found at Echocardiography Training Programme (hee.nhs.uk)
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