Chief Cardiac Physiologist; Echocardiography

Job summary

The technical cardiology team for Norfolk and Norwich University hospital are recruiting for a chief cardiac physiologist in echocardiography to join their dedicated team. This is a Band 7 post and the candidate will be able to scan and report echocardiogram in accordance with their BSE Level 2 accreditation, only candidates with BSE level 2 accreditation or recognised equivalence will be considered.

You will be mainly based on the main hospital site at Colney Lane, Norwich, whereby part of a service that offers range of cardiac services including acute cardiology ward, angiography suite, dedicated coronary care unit which is the PPCI centre for Norfolk. Our values of People Focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication, and Excellence - PRIDE - are important to us and how they relate to our work:
As a chief cardiac physiologist, people are at the heart of what you will do. Our department manages a large non-invasive workload including ambulatory monitoring, pacemaker, and loop recorder follow-up work as well as echocardiography in the form of TTE, TOE, stress echo, and congenital heart disease. You will work towards becoming a lead for our patient focused service which delivers approximately 18,000 transthoracic echocardiograms annually.

We are seeking a colleague who can understand the complex nature of the services we provide and how important this is to help us improve patients care.

With our department covering a range of procedures and services but working with the wider multidisciplinary team and other hospitals. We require you to provide excellence in your communication and teamwork with a personable, approachable, and respectful manner to both individuals of our wider cardiology team and our patients and visitors. Your primary role will be scan and report echocardiograms solo when all competencies are met and the Band 7 post is achieved.

Our aim is delivering a high-quality service for all patients within your sphere of influence and perform to the level of an independent practitioner within our specialised technical cardiology field. There is the aim for this role to provide clinical and managerial leadership and support all our staff including providing support and guidance to develop our staff.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff! The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute.

We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world. We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

• BSc Clinical Physiology, Cardiology or equivalent with significant experience at Senior Cardiology Physiologist level
• BSE Adult accreditation or equivalent

• Knowledge and experience of working in all areas of Technical Cardiology
• Significant experience of working in echocardiography at Senior level

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
• Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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