Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiac Physiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (fixed 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The hours will be used to support the 7 day echo service provision with flexible working pattern.)
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7081418
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NORTH MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL
- Town
- LONDON
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 Inclusive of Outer HACS per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist - Echocardiography
NHS AfC: Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
The candidate will participate in delivering the echo service with the cardiology department. The individual will work alongside the team of 7 other BSE echocardiographers, 2 trainees , 3 imaging consultants and with the wider cardiac physiology team to perform transthoracic echocardiograms as well as assist with stress and transoesophageal echocardiograms. As a teaching hospital the successful candidate will be expected to support our trainee echocardiographers to achieve their BSE accreditation. The echo service is open 8am to 6pm on weekdays and also provide inpatient/outpatient weekend service. The individual will be expected to participate in this comprehensive service and flexible working pattern will be considered
Main duties of the job
- Personally perform and report echocardiograms to a high standard,
meeting BSE guidelines and departmental local standards. - Work alongside the lead cardiac physiologist to provide structured training to junior cardiac physiologists and doctors with a view to their subsequent BSE accreditation.
- Maintain own BSE accreditation by ensuring appropriate CPD is up to date and course requests highlighted to the Head of Department in a timely manner.
- To provide an efficient running of the technical service by prioritising daily workloads.
- To maintain standards of technical competency in the provision of non-invasive, technical cardiac procedures.
- Remain up to date with current evidence in echocardiography
- Ensures that all echo studies are accurately recorded in our reporting system and outcome appropriately on the patient electronic record.
- Ensure smooth running of outpatient echo clinics so that patients are seen on time and receive a high quality of care.
- To jointly oversee the day to day running of the echo service, ensuring that all equipment is operational, clean and that stock levels are adequate.
- Support inpatient ward echo service including portable echoes and
urgent/emergency service to intensive and acute care units.
Working for our organisation
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.
Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing.
We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.
For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Personally perform and report echocardiograms to a high standard,
meeting BSE guidelines and departmental local standards - Work alongside the lead cardiac physiologist to provide structured training to junior cardiac physiologists and doctors with a view to their subsequent BSE accreditation
- Maintain own BSE accreditation by ensuring appropriate CPD is up to date and course requests highlighted to the Head of Department in a timely manner
- To provide an efficient running of the technical service by prioritising daily workloads
- To maintain standards of technical competency in the provision of non-invasive, technical cardiac procedures
- Remain up to date with current evidence in echocardiography
- Ensures that all echo studies are accurately recorded in our reporting system and outcome appropriately on the patient electronic record
- Ensure smooth running of outpatient echo clinics so that patients are seen on time and receive a high quality of care.
- To jointly oversee the day to day running of the echo service, ensuring
that all equipment is operational, clean and that stock levels are adequate - Support inpatient ward echo service including portable echoes and
urgent/emergency service to intensive and acute care units. - Closely liaise with medical staff to assist patients management if required based on echo findings.
- Participate in the local echo MDT discussions
- Assist clinicians in running the advanced echo services such as stress TOE, contrast and bubbles echocardiograms
- With sufficient training and support, work towards supporting the physiologist led valve clinics.
- Use clinical audit to monitor, maintain and develop clinical practice.
- To remain up to date with latest trends in clinical physiology translating these into practice and transferring this knowledge to staff
- Comply with health and safety policies at all times.
- Ensure appropriate infection control & hand hygiene regulations are
adhered too. - Establish good relationships and communications with staff at all levels of the organisation.
- Participate in departmental audits, stock checks and medicines expiry checks
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Clinical Physiology (or equivalent Science subject)
- BSE Level 2 TTE accreditation
- egistered / qualify for registration with RCC
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work and interact as part of a team. Supervision of junior staff
- Able to work calmly under pressure, maintaining a flexible approach
- Aptitude for learning and teaching new procedures
- Decisive and organized Excellent Interpersonal / communication skills
- Ability to process and communicate complex information
- Possess a high degree of judgmental process
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post BSc qualification experience as a Cardiac Physiologist/echocardiographer
- Good understanding of echocardiography techniques with independent ability to report scans to a high standard
- Exposure to complex cases and ability to accurately assess their management
- Possession of audit process knowledge & Clinical Governance processes
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to working
- Evidence of CPD
- Motivated
- Enthusiastic approach
- Ability to deal with potentially upsetting situations
- Very good time management skills
- Reliable
- Confident manner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Antonis Tipper
- Job title
- Lead cardiac physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088872855
- Additional information
If you would like informal visit or discussion about this post please contact Antonis Tipper on [email protected]
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