Specialist Cardiac Physiologist; Echo

Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist (Echo)

The Mid-Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for a full time Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist to join our friendly, supportive, and driven team.

Our busy cardiac service enjoys a strong reputation for commitment to the very highest standards of care, covering a wide range of invasive and non-invasive investigations.

The Echocardiography team provides a service for patients across our 4 sites (Dewsbury, Pinderfields, Pontefract and the Community Diagnostic Hub). The team delivers adult Transthoracic, Stress (ESE, DSE, bicycle ergometer), Contrast/Bubble and Transoesophageal Echocardiograms. We are also currently developing physiologist led Valve and Stress Echo clinics.

The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, motivated and committed to developing their practical expertise and knowledge. Continuous professional development is a cornerstone of the team, where you will be encouraged and supported to achieve your full potential.

In addition to your professional development, you will participate in regular audits and provide valuable insights to contribute towards service development. As proud member of a Teaching Trust you will be involved in training and developing others.

You will have proven competency in Adult Transthoracic Echocardiography and will preferably hold BSE accreditation.

Leadership and management

• Provides leadership to the designated team
• Investigates and responds to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events
• Ensures the safe use and efficient management of equipment and supplies within the team
• Takes responsibility for setting, monitoring and seeking to continuously improve standards and the quality of care delivered to patients
• Promotes evidence-based practice, wherever possible
• Implements policies and proposes change to practice for own specialist area
• Contributes to the development of specialist protocols for specialist area
• Engages users on service delivery and development

Clinical skills

• Acts in accordance with the Professional Code of Conduct
• Maintains a safe working environment
• Works as a specialist practitioner within established Trust and departmental policies
• Act as a source of expertise within their designated area
• Undertake clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required and performs a broad range of highly specialist and complex investigations providing accurate factual reports following analysis and interpretation of physiological data
• Routinely undertakes assessment of both in-patients and out-patients prior to a range of cardio-respiratory investigations and uses own discretion in order to ensure the patient is suitable for the investigation
• Supervises and assesses the work of others within the designated team
• Works within and towards national guidelines and directives, e.g. NICE, NSF

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers,home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Qualifications

• Current HCPC, RCCP or AHCS registration
• Educated to Degree…