Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Echocardiography Department

Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiographer) Band 7

This role is in receipt of short-term Recruitment & Retention Premia (RRP). This supplementary payment will be reviewed on 31st March 2024

Be part of something amazing.

We are seeking to recruit a qualified echocardiographer to join our renowned and expanding department. We have a strong record in research and developing new clinical services and patterns of working. We have been instrumental in developing national standards for echocardiography and for developing the new clinical scientist discipline. At an individual level we focus on role development with physiologist-led valve clinics and our own TOE and bubble lists. Opportunities for continuing professional development are excellent and studying for postgraduate qualifications is encouraged. Health Education England have commissioned five HSST (Higher Specialist Scientific Training) posts in Cardiac Science here at GSTT in recent years. We are actively encouraging our echocardiographers to seek equivalence via the Academy for Healthcare Science and become registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as Clinical Scientists. Our five echo-specialist cardiologists have wide ranging interests including stress echo, 3D, valve disease, heart failure, CRT and adult congenital heart disease.

St Thomas’ is situated in the heart of London immediately opposite the Houses of Parliament and Guy’s is at London Bridge, opposite The Shard. Both hospitals have excellent transport links and an on-site nursery, along with a wide range of further innovative programmes and resources to help you enjoy a healthy lifestyle and maintain a great work/life balance.

Job Summary
This position is for a BSE accredited (or equivalent), independently reporting echocardiographer. The post holder will perform their own transthoracic echo lists and provide reports and expert opinions to other health professionals. The post holder will perform studies within a specialist area of echocardiography (e.g. stress echo, bubbles, or TOE) and will be expected to contribute to non-clinical projects as required (e.g. QA and audit, infection control, machine and IT maintenance or stock control).
Key Relationships
The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of physiologists, echocardiographers, consultant cardiologists, junior doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, clerical and administrative staff and our porter. The post will involve training physiologists and doctors and the post holder will be expected to act as a role model and mentor to the trainees.

**Responsibilities**:

- Professional / Clinical responsibilities

Perform transthoracic echocardiograms to a high standard in accordance with BSE guidelines and department minimum standards.
- Identify and advise when transthoracic echocardiography is insufficient to answer the clinical question and proactively suggest and arrange alternative/additional investigations.
- Produce an accurate and comprehensive report for each study,
- Ensure that personal knowledge base is current to reflect change in clinical echocardiography.
- Depending on previous experience or agreed internal training programme and sign off, perform specialist echo to a high standard as follows:

- Perform transoesophageal echocardiograms including record keeping (in particular probe infection control measures), interpretation and patient care.
- Perform stress echocardiograms (exercise and pharmacological) and assist with all aspects of the procedure including record keeping, interpretation and patient safety.
- Perform 3D echocardiograms with appropriate record keeping, interpretation and archiving.
- Perform contrast/bubble contrast echocardiography including keeping adequate stock levels of consumables, record keeping, interpretation and patient safety.
- Perform complex dyssynchrony studies pre and post device implant including appropriate analysis and archiving.
- Perform complex adult congenital studies including record keeping, interpretation and patient care.
- Perform research studies as required with appropriate record keeping, interpretation and archiving.
- Perform other highly specialist technical and specialist technical roles as required including ECG interpretation.
- To assist in protocol development and maintenance to agreed national, international or local standards in liaison with the Head of Echocardiography and the Clinical Lead for Echo and Non Invasive Cardiology.
- To assist with triaging echo requests for appropriateness and relevancy, prioritising caseload depending on clinical urgency on a rotational basis.

Teaching and professional development
- Train physiologists, cardiology registrars, intensivists, general practitioners to BSE individual accreditation standard, taking professional responsibility for the trainees’ studies.
- Teach other echocardiographers to a standard of e

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