Echocardiographer

37.5 hours per week (Part time hours would be considered)

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and proficient individual who is trained within the field of Echocardiography and holds up to date BSE accredited in Adult TTE.

Working with state-of-the-art echocardiographic equipment in a fully digital lab you will have the opportunity to work in all aspects of echocardiography, including 3D, in one of the North’s leading cardiac centres.
- Primary PPCI/On-call, Non Invasive Cardiology or CRM these will be required to be maintained within this role.

The Echocardiography Unit is a large busy department split across 2 sites, The James Cook University Hospital and the Friarage Hospital. In addition, we work at number of external community clinics.

The post holder will be expected to be able to work cross site cover at times depending on service needs and provide their own transport to and from these sites and community clinics.

The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough is a large tertiary referral centre for cardiothoracic services. There are 17 Cardiologists (2 based within the Cardiology Unit at the Friarage) 7 Surgeons,35 Cardiac Physiologists and 20 support staff across two sites providing an efficient and high-quality service to patients. We currently have (8) dedicated echo rooms within the Trust, 2 of which are designed to perform stress and exercise echocardiography.

The departments on both sites are equipped with state-of-the-art technology which allows us to take both secondary and tertiary referrals. Additional services provided by the units include cardiac rhythm management device follow up along with a full range of non-invasive cardiology diagnostics including ECGs, ambulatory ECG, BP and extended ECG monitoring, exercise tolerance tests and rapid access chest pain clinic.

If you enjoy echocardiography or would be interested in a career in echocardiography and want to work in an enthusiastic, friendly and supportive team and develop your skills further this post is for you.

The department offers a range of imaging procedures/clinics such as Transthoracic, TOE, DSE, Dedicated Oncology Monitoring Clinic and CRT optimisation. As a leading tertiary centre, we offer and encourage extended roles at present these are within Research and Audit. Echocardiographers are supported through the clinical skills assessment course for the Physiologist lead valve clinics, they provide image support within our well established Structural Heart disease program (TAVI and Paravalvular closure). Along with Physiologist led TOE and Exercise Echo.

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.