Senior Cardiographer

Cardiology Investigations Unit

**Job title**: Senior Cardiographer - AfC Band 3

This is an exciting time to join the Cardiology Department at Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The Cardiology Investigations Department offers a full range of non-invasive cardiology investigations, pacemaker implants, echocardiography and a brand new cardiac catheter lab. The unit is undergoing expansion and currently supports 8 Cardiologists across the 2 sites at Epsom and St Helier.

We are seeking a Senior Cardiographer to join our friendly team performing ECGs, fitting and downloading ECG holter and blood pressure monitors, and assisting with exercise tests. This post will be based at Epsom, but will involve cross site cover.

The postholder is also expected to help manage bookings in conjunction with our admin and clerical team and be responsible for ECG stock control. Experience of working with computers is an advantage.

Applications are invited from experienced Cardiographers who hold the SCST certificate in Electrocardiography (or equivalent).

If you are motivated, dynamic and looking for a new role in a friendly, local hospital we would be very interested to hear from you.

**Interview Date**: TBC
- To undertake the recording and interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECGs), within the department and throughout the hospital as required.
- The post holder will undertake a competency-based training and assessment programme within the department for ECG and be able to demonstrate recognition of the main cardiac arrhythmias and basic electrocardiography instrumentation and troubleshooting technical faults.
- The post holder should hold the Society for Cardiological Science and Technology Certificate in Electrocardiography or equivalent in-house assessment.
- To provide explanation and reassurance to patients undergoing routine non-invasive cardiac investigations and to assist patients with dressing and undressing.
- To fit and remove 24 hour ambulatory ECG and BP monitors.
- To fit and upload/download and report event recorders
- To assist cardiac physiologists with exercise ECG testing
- To undertake preventative maintenance of ECG and ambulatory ECG recorders and exercise testing equipment

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.