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Lead Cardiac Physiologist for Coronary Intervention

4 weeks ago

Cambridge Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to lead the Invasive Cardiac Physiology department, at the senior, complex and advanced healthcare science level. For this combined clinical leadership and managerial role, this individual will be expected to use their insight, wisdom, evidence-based knowledge and experience to provide leadership and expertise in the Diagnostic & complex coronary intervention. The applicant will be expected to be highly specialised and have knowledge and skills within this area.

Our team is always looking to develop and provide exceptional patient care. This role will steer exemplary practice and education for cardiac physiologists / scientists involved in these specialties, with the aim of achieving very high standards of safety, competency and patient experience within this service in line with national and regional guidelines. Strong strategic leadership, financial knowledge and communication across the internal and external team will be an essential part of this role.

There will be R& R 10% for new recruits and 12.5% for internal staff once they have been in the trust for a minimum of 3 years.

Main duties of the job

This individual will be expected to maintain the patient at the centre of all their decision-making processes, conforming to all the NHS constitution pledges. Behaving with integrity, honest & probity, with good scientific practice as their foundation.

They'll be expected to provide strong and consistent leadership, management and accountability. Both for the clinical specialism of interventional cardiology and for the cardiac physiology team, at the senior, complex and advanced healthcare science manager level with accountability for finances within your specialism.

You'll continually develop your own managerial, leadership and clinical skills with the support of the trust. Demonstrating clinical proficiency in a range of complex & advanced clinical & scientific investigations.

For this combined clinical leadership and managerial role, the post holder will be expected to use their insight, wisdom, evidence-based knowledge and experience to provide leadership for cardiac Physiologists / Scientists for the clinical specialism of coronary intervention.

Refer to the Role Profile for the required Core Skills

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • BSc Clinical Cardiac Science or equivalent

Desirable


  • MSc Cardiac Science
  • Accreditation from IBHRE in electrophysiology or equivalent doctorate level expertise, experience or research.
  • Accreditation from BSE/EACVI/BHRS/EHRA in Echo or CRM, or equivalent masters' level expertise, experience or research.
  • Valid Good Clinical Practice (GCP) certificate
  • Management and/or Leadership qualification
  • Registered with RCCP or registration with the AHCS as a Cardiac Scientist.

Experience

Essential


  • Be highly specialised in: -
  • Diagnostic and interventional angiography, including for the primary PCI service and adjunctive technologies such as IVUS, OCT and Pressure wire.
  • Previous knowledge of service development and long-term succession planning
  • Understanding of current issues facing the NHS and their strategic objectives
  • Experience of managing staff
  • Experience of report writing, preparing and delivering presentations and business cases
  • Some experience of multi-professional and multi-agency working
  • Budgetary management experience
  • Have a confident expert knowledge of the physiology of the heart.
  • Extensive Cardiac Physiology experience post qualification at BSc or equivalent level.
  • Well-developed interpersonal, communication, influencing, negotiation and persuasion skills.
  • Leadership skills
  • Ability to work using own initiative to develop concepts and bring them to a realisation
  • Has innovation, enthusiasm and wants to be actively involved in development of the Cardiac Physiology service.
  • Ability to manage organised caseload with frequent interruptions for urgent tests.
  • Numerical and analytical skills
  • Ability to provide clinical supervision for trainee staff including training and assessment processes.
  • Ability to communicate often sensitive and contentious information to a variety of individuals including patients, to include those with learning and other disabilities, healthcare professional colleagues, medical staff and individuals external to the Trust
  • Ability to record and input sensitive data from simple to highly complex investigations into electronic databases
  • Ability to manage time effectively
  • Ability to work in a complex environment across a range of clinical stakeholders.
  • Ability to work autonomously and meet tight deadlines.
  • Recognises people's equality, diversity and rights.
  • The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.

Desirable


  • Previous lead of healthcare science service with responsibility for departmental budget(s)
  • Additional specialist training of advanced cardiac healthcare science
  • Knowledge of Structural cardiology such as TAVI and ASD closures.
  • Evidence of experience in conducting departmental and commercial research trials including grant and ethics applications, liaison with pharmaceutical companies, protocol development, data collection and analysis
  • Experience of presenting complex information to individuals and groups of experts
  • On call experience
  • Advanced practical and theoretical knowledge and expert understanding of all cardiac physiological assessments from simple to highly complex
  • Knowledge of conducting cardiac research through devising research projects, collecting data, analysing results and preparing manuscripts for publication into peer-reviewed journals
  • Change management experience.
  • Experience of interpreting simple to highly complex tests of cardiac physiology
  • Previous experience of developing, reviewing and implementing departmental policies and procedures
  • Line management experience including responsibility for recruitment and retention, staff professional development
  • Experience of leading staff through change
  • Knowledge of Structural cardiology such as TAVI/ASD/PFO/paravalvular closures
  • Drive and hold a current driving licence.
  • Proficient in the use of all Microsoft Office applications

Additional Criteria

Essential


  • Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

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