Cardiology Assistant

NHS AfC: Band 2

**Main area**
- Technical Cardiology

**Grade**
- NHS AfC: Band 2

**Contract**
- Permanent

**Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week

**Job ref**
- 164-5451212

**Site**
- QMC

**Town**
- Notts

**Salary**
- £22,383 pro rata

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- Today at 23:59

Job overview

Technical cardiology at NUH are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team of cardiac physiologists, assistant technical officers, cardiac support officers and admin assistants. We provide non invasive diagnostic tests to a range of patients from infants on the neonatal unit to older people on our HCOP wards. We are looking for someone who shares our passion for providing compassionate care and high quality service for our patients.

Main duties of the job

A cardiology assistant supports the smooth running of all areas of our service. Duties include:
Welcoming and checking in patients attending the department

Assisting physiologists with echocardiography, chaperoning and supporting patients to dress and undress when required

Basic patient assessments (blood pressure and ECG, full training will be given)

Assisting our busy admin team

Working for our organisation

We are a large but friendly team, with bases at both QMC and City campus. We pride ourselves in providing high quality care to our patients and supporting our staff to develop themselves and their skills.

In addition to the brief list above you must familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification attached to this advert prior to applying.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria
- Must be literate and numerate to GCSE level

Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post 16 education in a healthcare or caring field.

Experience

Essential criteria
- IT skills (Word processing and databases)

Desirable criteria
- Familiar with Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word

Experience

Essential criteria
- Evidence of working with the general public

Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working in a caring or healthcare environment
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

**Salary**: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the **Occupational Health Department **confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.