Chief Cardiac Physiologist

7 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST Full time

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley.

We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham.

We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

In the quality of our patient care; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care.

The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education.

We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities.

This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

To manage the Interventional Cardiac Physiology services on the QEH site
To monitor and maintain quality standards of all investigations and staff on the QEH
To provide leadership for complex pacing implant and follow up services and training for junior Physiologist staff
To provide services required within budgetary limits, maintaining Quality and Governance standards.
As above with associated managerial and administration duties commensurate to Band 8a Senior Chief Cardiac Physiologist
Provides data on request as part of audit process

Is aware of income/ expenditure issues for cardiac Department -promotes and monitors proper data recording and collection to assist in this.

Is conversant with the IT systems in use within cardiac Department . Works with finance and other directorates to access data.
Participates in Trust Wide clinical Governance and Directorate Clinical Governance as required
Promotes the Cardiac Department and services to the wider hospital community by own initiatives i.e. teaching on external courses, care presentations etc.
Our people are our greatest asset.

Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement.

We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

# Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
# Improving the experience of staff with disability
# Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
# To ensure that the highest possible standards of treatment and care are provided to the patient and to ensure that the quality of patient services are a prime concern of all staff members.

To be responsible for the effective and efficient deployment of available resources, to identify opportunities for improving services and to assist the Consultants in charge in analysing practices and service performance.

To be involved in the process of future planning, manpower and equipment requirements.
To make key management decisions in future planning, manpower and equipment requirements. To review and implement policies and procedures and to keep pace with changing service requirements.

To ensure that all members of the Cardiac Department are aware of and deliver care in line with the Trust's values.

Manage Sickness and absence in line with Trust Policies- liaising with occupational Health and other bodies to ensure adherence to process and to ensure appropriate support for staff
Instigate disciplinary procedures in line with Trust Policies as appropriate
Be aware of legislation in regarding to working environment, staff contract, HR issues
Appropriately ensure adherence to Trust Wide policies involving staff- Uniform, health and safety, Equality and Diversity, Confidentiality etc.

To be responsible for the training and appraisal of staff with the aim of maintaining good staff relations, improving staff development and the retention of staff.

Liaise with Trust facilities and external providers to source appropriate trained Bank/agency staff to fill resource gaps.
To maintain good communications with other staff throughout the hospital and within the Department.

To promote the cardiac departments services, provide training and to give lectures to the Department users, other Departments including G.P.'s, community health and other hospitals.

Is aware of requirements for external and advisory bodies both general CQC and cardiac Specific bodies -networks, alliance partners, BCIS etc.

To interpret on a range of cardiac tests and give advice to medical staff if necessary. - To maintain standards of resus and fire training of staff. And ensure staff are compliant within Mandatory training requirements and are able to attend relevant additional training as required within the specific duties of each postholder

To ensure that Health and Safety and Risk Assessment standards and policies are understood and enforced in the workplace.

To participate in and manage an effective on-call rota for provisions of a clinical service, when required and in general to ensure adequate provision of out of hours Physiologist support as required

To oversee management of daily work schedules within the Department, ensuring appropriate prioritisation of patient investigations- to include first triage of diagnostic requests and communicating with medical teams when key requirements are not met regarding Trust or external guidelines for specific investigations.

To manage Direct Access Diagnostic services- maintenance of wait lists, quality. Ensures pathways are clear and well maintained for the management of abnormal investigation

Write business cases either in isolation, with management or other service users to facilitate the development of new services or extension/improvement if existing service.

To be involved in stock for all areas of the Department, liaising with specialist staff for designated areas ensuring best quality product procurement within budgetary limits- works with supplies/procurement to achieve best outcome.

To be responsible for work experience placements and volunteer staff - ensuring work content is appropriate for this group.

To work with our University partners and training partners to place and train students and to be involved on the changing face of Healthcare Science whilst promoting the best for the future services.

Is aware of all training options and associated qualifications to assist in staff development
Qualifications and Training
Senior physiologist registered with a professional body
Master's Degree or working towards.
Management/Leadership qualification
Management/Clinical Leadership experience
Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
Ability to work on service development projects

Personal Qualities
High level of work organisation, self- motivation, drive for performance and improvement

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve.

We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+.

We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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