Associate Practitioner; XR

Doyou want to expand your existing clinical skills and knowledge of cardiologyand work within a large and friendly team at one of the largest cardiac departments in the country?

Weare looking for people who enjoy working with others, motivated to learn newskills and provide the best care to our patients. We welcome applications from those seeking both full and part time work and can offer flexible working and condensed hours to support a work life balance.

The Cardio-Respiratory department at Leeds Teaching Hospitals is looking torecruit an Associate Practitioner to support the non-invasive cardiac physiology services. The successful candidate will work closely with the Cardiac Physiologists/Scientists and assist them with high quality diagnostics including ambulatory analysis, exercise tolerance testing,cardio-pulmonary exercise test and tilt table services.

Weare looking for individuals with clinical experience and knowledge in cardiology. Applicants should have the ability to record, interpret andreport ECG's as a minimum and hold certification. The SCST ECG diploma is desirable.

The successful applicant will support the ambulatory cardiac monitoring services,analysing and reporting ECG recordings from cardiac monitors and escalating abnormal findings to the senior clinical team. The successful applicant willalso assist the Cardiac Physiologists/Scientists with performing exercise tolerance tests and full cardiopulmonary exercise tests. They will play a keyrole in non-invasive services and support our ECG team with some leadership responsibilities such as co-ordinating daily tasks for Senior Assistant Technical officers and Assistant Technical Officers alongside the senior leadership team.

In addition, the role will include administrative duties such as stock level management and ordering. Applicants should possess excellent communication skills, be a role model to others and have the ability to demonstrate exemplary patient centered care. .

AtLTHT, we aim to be a fair and supportive hospital with positive, caring teamswho are champions of the Leeds Way values. Our values are part of what makeus different from other Trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as aresponsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what theysee as important to how we work.

Ourfive values are:

Accountable

Empowered

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PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Clinical Duties

Carries out all aspects of clinical and administration work as approved by their line manager, working within established codes of practice and local departmental standard operating procedures.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspect of own work, including the management of patients in your care and dealing with their specific needs.

Routinely undertakes assessment ofboth in-patients and out-patients prior to a range of investigations and usesown discretion in order to ensure the patient is suitable for the investigation.

Communicates with all members ofthe multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible care for patients,including: negotiating, reassurance, empathy, and persuasiveness.

Communicates sensitive information about routine and complex investigations to patients and relatives/carers including children and those with learning and/or physical disabilities.

Calibrates and manipulates a widerange of complex, expensive, technical equipment which process, create,update and store information. Identifies any automatically generated reports that are false and or inaccurate, escalating any errors to the appropriate member of LTHT staff.

Performs / provides factual reportson a number of investigations on a region-wide range of patients…