Job summary
- Main area
- Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist - Echo
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-HS005-0424
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist / HCS - Echocardiography
Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated experienced Echocardiographer or will consider appointing a Trainee Echocardiographer (annex 21) to work within our rapidly developing diagnostic Unit.
Our Echo service provides a wide range of tests to include Transthoracic echocardiography, Dobutamine and Exercise Stress echocardiography, Transoesphageal echocardiography, ACHD clinics with established Physiologist-led services including Contrast, VHD clinics and stress echocardiography.
Band 7
For the qualified position applicants must hold a BSc in Clinical Physiology (Cardiology) or equivalent. BSE accreditation. RCCP registration.
OR
Band 7 (Annex 21)
As a Trainee - hold a Clinical Physiology (Cardiology) or equivalent and RCCP / AHCS registration.
To undertake a two-year training programme to obtain the relevant professional body exams, training, and experience (complete British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) accreditation and be scanning autonomously at Band 7 level for at least a year), to meet the full requirements of this Band 7 Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist role and all duties as indicated within this job description.
During this period, remuneration will be 70% at the top of Band 7 for year one (months 1-12), and 75% of the top of Band 7 for year 2 (months 13-24) of training.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to appoint someone who will relish the challenge of being part of our team and possess the initiative and drive to complement the responsibility of this role.
The post holder will work as part of a team of cardiac physiologists based in the Cardiac Physiology department, providing a quality Echocardiography service to both inpatients and outpatients.
They will be required to undertake a range of complex activities of a highly specialist nature (Echocardiography), ensuring that they provide a high standard of care to all patients accessing the service within the resources available. Working across the sites within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) as service requires.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Bsc Cardiac Physiology or equivalent
- British Society of ECHO - Adult accreditation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevent experience at band 6
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hugh Pascoe
- Job title
- Lead Cardiac Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752930
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