**Band 6**:
**Main area**
- Cardiology
- **Grade**
- Band 6
- **Contract**
- Fixed term: 18 months (Start date 07/10/2024)
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Cross-site)
- **Job ref**
- 343-NN-6267033-HS-Z**Site**
- St Helier Hospital
- **Town**
- Carshalton
- **Salary**
- £40,701 - £48,054 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Outer)
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 16/05/2024 23:59At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values

**Job overview**:
At Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust we have an exciting opportunity for an 18-month fixed term full-time training post in Echocardiography, commencing on 07th of October 2024. This is part of the Echocardiography Training Programme developed by the National School of Healthcare Science and funded by Health Education England.

Our mission is to improve the health/quality of life for our patients by building an organisation that develops and invests in the individuals that work here and this can only be achieved with the recruitment of the right people.

Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust Hospital is a leading University Hospital and is committed to developing the future workforce for Cardiac Physiologist/Healthcare Scientists, having successfully trained 2 ETP trainees in the last 3 years.

**Main duties of the job**:
Our department which is spread across 2 sites offers a full range of non-invasive cardiac investigations such as ECG, ambulatory ECG and BP monitoring, non-medically supervised exercise tolerance tests, Echo and head up tilt testing. We also offer diagnostic coronary angiography, percutaneous interventions for the treatment of coronary disease, device implants and electrophysiology studies in our brand new cath lab on the Epsom site.

We are a BSE accredited department and offer a full echo service including routine transthoracic studies, contrast, 3D, transoesophageal echo and stress echo (both Dobutamine and Exercise) and physiologist led valve clinic. We have an excellent reputation for training to BSE standard.

**Working for our organisation**:
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Intermediate Life support

**Desirable criteria**:
**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:
**Desirable criteria**:

- Previous NHS experience

**Skills & Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Understand the basic guidelines and procedures required to perform clinical tests and demonstrate that they can carry these out to the required standards

**Desirable criteria**:

- Basic competency in pacemaker implantation, generator replacement and Associated procedures and Reveal implantation

**Personal attributes**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to communicate complex technical information
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate kind and compassionate nature

**DBS**: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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