Specialised Physiologist

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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.

We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

The Lancashire Cardiac Centre is a tertiary cardiac provider for the people of Lancashire & Cumbria. The centre has well-established invasive and non-invasive services covering a wide range of diagnostic and treatment including.

Cardiac intervention, Structural cardiac procedures including TAVI, Device implantation including ICD’s and CRT’s & Extraction, Electrophysiology & mapping procedures.

We are looking to recruit experienced cardiac sonographers in the Cardiac Investigations Unit. The successful candidates will work as part of a highly skilled team of sonographers alongside the Imaging consultants to deliver the busy service.

The specialised team perform over 13,000 TTE’s 650 Dobutamine & Exercise Stress Echocardiography each year as well as the advanced techniques within Cardiac Ultrasound such as, Transesophageal echo (TOE), 3D TTE/TOE & Contrast Echocardiography. As part of our tertiary centre work, we also provide Paediatric and Adult Congenital Echocardiography in partnership with Liverpool and Alder Hey.

You should be BSE accredited, possess BSc in clinical physiology or equivalent and be on the AHCS register.

• To perform routine and specialist, complex investigations such as transoesophageal echo, stress echo, 3D echo, contrast studies and inter-procedural TOE, interpreting the results and producing a clinical report by applying advanced theoretical knowledge.
• To review Echo studies and reports performed by others and provide highly specialised advice on interpretation and reporting.
• To provide specialist advice to clinicians regarding procedure results to enable development of individual care plans as appropriate.
• To undertake complex troubleshooting and maintenance of imaging equipment and any other equipment within the department.
• Perform and interpret a variety of non-invasive cardiology procedures such as ECG and blood pressure monitoring as may be required during various imaging procedures.
• Interpret a variety of invasive cardiology procedures such as left and right angiography for use in performing stress echocardiography.
• To participate and actively support research and development activities and clinical trials within the department.
• To provide input to the departmental databases for audit and analysis of procedures and results and ensure that these are updated by all users.
• Collaborate and…