Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join a friendly and busy echocardiography service in South East Essex. Due to maternity leave we are looking to recruit a dynamic individual to join our echocardiography team, initially for a 12 month period. 

This post may suit a recent echo trainee graduate who wants to gather experience whilst taking on their first Chief Physiologist role.

At Southend we complete over 15,000 echos per year. Our physiologists all hold or are actively working towards BSE adult accreditation.

We have busy Physiologist led PIFU valve clinics, BNP and Oncology clinics. We also run normal routine outpatient clinics, urgent inpatient scans, AF one stop clinics and also support our cardiologists with stress echo and TOE sessions.

We are currently working towards gaining departmental BSE accreditation this year.

Within the next month we are updating our older machines so that we have access to the latest in scanning hardware and software across all of our systems. We report using the Phillips ISCV system

Main duties of the job

To complete and report BSE standard outpatient and inpatient echocardiograms in a busy acute hospital setting.

Support the junior physiologists in develpoing their physiology and echocardiography skills

Support the Head of Echo in running the echo department.

Working for our organisation

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress