Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 241-976AA-24
- Employer
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Bolton Hospital
- Town
- Bolton
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist (Echocardiography)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Bolton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cardiology Department have an exciting opportunity for an experienced echocardiographer to join our busy and friendly team.
We are looking for an experienced echo physiologist to support services within the Trust. The successful candidate will be integral in developing the service, to work alongside other specialist echocardiography technicians for the provision of a comprehensive and high quality transthoracic, trans-oesophageal and stress echo service.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be BSE accredited with a minimum of 3 years post accreditation experience and be competent to issue independent echo reports. You will be expected to provide teaching for medical and physiologist staff in echocardiography.
To Liaise effectively with the clinical lead technician in echocardiography to ensure that department and BSE guidelines are maintained and to make sure that the guidelines are up-to-date and relevant to current clinical and technical practice.
To participate in research projects within the department as necessary and to contribute to maintaining high standards of clinical practice with evidence via clinical audit.
Working for our organisation
Royal Bolton Hospital has a great reputation for supporting staff, celebrating success and continued service development.
We are one of the North West’s busiest acute NHS foundations trusts, serving people across Bolton and other parts of Greater Manchester and are amongst the best in the region for several of our services.
We aim to:
- Provide every person the best treatment, in the best place, every time
- Be a great place to work
- Spend our money wisely
- Make our hospital and buildings fit for the future
- Join up services to improve the health of the people of Bolton
- Develop partnerships across Greater Manchester to improve services
The Trust offers fantastic Staff Benefits, ranging from salary sacrifice schemes, including Cars, Technology and Cycling, to an onsite gym and local store discounts.
In return for your commitment to Bolton we can offer you a fantastic place to work, within a high-performing, very stable Trust, alongside amazing colleagues with one goal ‘to provide the best care for our patients’. This isn’t an idle boast as we can demonstrate from our last two CQC inspections (rated ‘Good’ both times), annual reports and our excellent clinical and financial performance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As an expanding department the successful candidate will also have joint responsibility for managing capacity and demand of the echo service and be expected to be actively involved in service development.
Further information about the role can be found in the job description and person specification attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Clinical Physiology or equivalent.
- BSE Accreditation with a minimum of 3 years experience post accreditation.
- Registration Council Clinical Physiology.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Stress Echo’s.
- Experience in TOE's
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at a senior level
- Significant experience of performing and reporting echocardiogams.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Wide knowledge of cardiac and respiratory investigations.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to perform wide range of Cardiorespiratory investigations at a high level of competency and interpret results.
- Ability to work autonomously and to coordinate, plan and prioritise workloads.
- Hand eye coordination skills and IT literate.
- Good communication skills and Team Player.
- Moving and handling skills.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Susan Tidy
- Job title
- Department Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01204 390565
- Additional information
Tracey Jolly - [email protected]
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