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Job summary

Main area
Cardiology
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (CDCs will run 8am-8pm Monday - Sunday)
Job ref
275-2503CCP-1
Employer
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medway Maritime Hospital
Town
Gillingham
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/04/2025 23:59

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Chief Cardiac Physiologist

Band 7

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Job overview

Chief Cardiac Physiologist

Division: Medicine and Emergency Care

Care Group: Specialist Medicine

Band: 7                            

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Chief Cardiac Physiologist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

Due to the opening of a CDC at Rochester Healthy Living Centre and the planned opening of a CDC at Sheppey Community Hospital we are looking for two new band 7 Cardiac Physiologists to join our team. To be eligible for the band 7 role you will  need BSE accreditation. We are not able to accommodate any additional Echo trainees at the current time so applications will be rejected from anyone who does not have current BSE accreditation. We are happy to receive applications from Band 6s with new BSE accreditation looking for promotion to Band 7.

You will be based with the main Cardiorespiratory team at Medway Maritime Hospital but will need to rotate through the Community Diagnostic Centres.

There will be the opportunity for the successful candidate to learn Pacing and rotate through the Cardiac Catheter Suite. We are a friendly team and happy to support development in these areas.

There will be a future requirement for 7 day working in the Community Diagnostic Centres.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We have a busy echo service,  For the right candidate there will be the opportunity to participate in Physiologist Led Valve Clinics and ACHD clinics. We are hoping to expand our echo service by recruiting an imaging consultant who can help us to develop stress echo.

We have 3 Device Consultants and our pacing service is equally busy with Brady and Complex implants and device follow up.

In our cath lab we perform routine angio and PCI with IVUS and FFR, including a small number of pPCI .

The successful postholder must have a BSc Clinical Physiology or equivalent and be on the RCCP register, hold a current ILS in addition to BSE accreditation.

Specialise in echocardiography providing full technical analysis and interpretation of results for medical staff, contributing to the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

Echo specialists will perform the full range of echo clinics including Physiologist Led Valve Clinics, bubble and contrast studies, ACHD clinics and assisting with TOE.

Device specialists will manage and run complex device and pacemaker clinics, identifying patients who require cardiologist review. Adapt programmes, in accordance with the guidelines of the British Pacing and Electrophysiology Group, and without medical supervision, making complex judgements to ensure that any patient who is unwell is assessed, diagnosed and referred as required.

Undertake the Physiologists role in the cath lab for diagnostic angiography and PCI.

Undertake all basic investigations to diagnose heart disease, and produce factual reports as required.

Make judgements on the severity of results, ensuring medical staff are informed immediately of any life threatening or urgent investigation results.

Undertake the range of highly complex investigations and produce full technical analysis and interpretation of results.

Ensure that all the correct procedures for dealing with urgent and non-urgent results are adhered to, supporting the junior staff at all times.

Support our specialist Cardiac Nursing Team in the delivery of their services across coronary heart disease, heart failure and arrhythmia.

Participate and/or take the lead as a member of the resuscitation team if required when an emergency occurs in the department.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSc Clinical Physiology or equivalent
  • BSE accreditation is essential
  • RCCP or equivalent
  • ILS
  • ASCST

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Expert in Echocardiography

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 3 years as a qualified physiologist

Values Based Question

Essential criteria
  • Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - SilverDisability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeStep into health

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Clare O'Brien
Job title
Chief Cardiac Physiologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01634 976617
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