Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On call required)
- Job ref
- 361-6845821
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum plus 12.5% Recruitment and Retention package
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Cardiac Physiologist CRM
NHS AfC: Band 7
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Chief Cardiac Physiologist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients
Our Cardiac Physiology team at Lister Hospital is committed to delivering high-quality diagnostic testing with the utmost patient care. We are a close-knit team, comprising four accredited physiologists and seven more working towards accreditation, including apprentices, associates, and senior physiologists. We cover all aspects of invasive cardiology including conduction pacing and Bi-Ventricular pacing.
As Chief Cardiac Physiologist, you will play a crucial role in both supporting the development of our team and enhancing our services. Every day brings new challenges, and you will be responsible for mentoring and guiding your colleagues while ensuring our services evolve to meet the highest standards of care.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Overseeing and supporting a busy pacing clinic, managing approximately 300 face-to-face appointments and 1,000 remote follow-ups each month for loops, brady, and complex devices.
- Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team to perform 700 PCI procedures and 250 Primary PCI procedures annually.
- Supporting the implantation of around 300 devices each year.
Our Commitment to You:
- We prioritize professional development, with opportunities to attend conferences and regular in-house training.
- You will be part of a supportive environment where your contributions will directly influence the quality of care we provide.
Staff Testimonial:
- Working as a cardiac physiologist at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage is both professionally rewarding and personally fulfilling. The advanced cardiac care services we provide, offer a dynamic and challenging environment that fosters continuous learning and skill enhancement. The team is exceptionally skilled and dedicated, striving for excellence in patient care. One of the most remarkable aspects of working here is the close camaraderie among colleagues. We all get along really well and being a small team gives you this strong sense of familial environment which creates a positive and collaborative atmosphere and mutual support, which is essential for delivering high-quality care in high-pressure situation.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- BSc Clinical Physiology or Health Professions Council registration or recognised precursor
- Postgraduate profession related qualification, eg. IHBRE or HRUK/BSE
- Substantial post qualification experience within cardiology
- Member of Heart Rhythm Society UK/BSE
- RCCP registered ILS
Desirable criteria
- Accredited Member of the Society of Cardiological Science and Technology or equivalent
- Management Diploma
- MSc Cardiology or equivalent experience
- Immediate Life Support
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisation and time management skills, able to deliver objectives within an agreed time frame
- Able to apply a fair, consistent and objective approach
- Proactive approach to quality control and making improvements in efficiency and effectiveness of service
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of management in relation to finance and management
Skills
Essential criteria
- Strong leadership and team building skills
- Able to relate and communicate with staff at all levels and from different professions
- Ability to overcome language barriers
- Experience of and demonstrable skills in the first line management
- Evidence of good communication skills. Good written and spoken communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive post graduate experience in technical cardiology
- Competent to perform a range of highly specialised invasive procedures
- Competent to perform complex device implant and device followup
- Experience and competence maintained in all routine noninvasive procedures e.g. exercise tolerance testing,and ECG rhythm analysis.
- Experience of day to day organisation/ management
- Understanding of issues pertinent to education of technical cardiology and fully conversant with current curricula
- Teaching & presentation skills
- Awareness and understanding of current health issues and in particular to demonstrate a good understanding of CHD services and recent initiatives
- Advanced computer skills
- Utilisation of teaching skills
- Ability to direct and work within a team
- High level of co-ordination and manual dexterity
- Flexible in working practice
- Good team worker. Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently.
- Exercise initiative
- Leadership and motivational skills
- Assertiveness
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Prioritise and mange self and other staff
- Deal effectively with unexpected changes of schedule
- Wide knowledge of appropriate general cardiac conditions and their management
Desirable criteria
- Previous supervisory responsibilities
- Leadership and motivational skills
- Experience of cardiology patient databases,Lorenzo, CRIS PACS
- Experience of GE ETT equipment’s systems, spacelabs pathfinder, and holter. QMAPP Heamodynamic systems
- Teaching & presentation skills
- Previously involved in delivering formal training
- Mentorship skills
- Advanced computer skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Irvine
- Job title
- Lead Cardiac Physiologist - Invasive
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 284738
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