Lead Cardiac Physiologist

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. 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.
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.
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.
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. 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 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.
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. 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.
BSc Clinical Cardiac Science or equivalent


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.
Management and/or Leadership qualification
Registered with RCCP or registration with the AHCS as a Cardiac Scientist.

Previous knowledge of service development and long-term succession planning
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.
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.
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
Recognises people's equality, diversity and rights.
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
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
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

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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