Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist

Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist - Devices

**Job Description**:
**Job Title: Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist - Devices**

**Location: Cromwell Hospital, 164-178 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0TU**

**Permanent / Contract: Permanent**

**Salary range: Competitive.**
**Role specific benefits: Monday to Friday**

**Full time/part time: Full-Time, 37.50 hours per week (4 long shifts per week)**

**A Great Time To Join The Cromwell Hospital**

Bupa is one of the most well-known and respected healthcare businesses in the world because of what we do matters. From our contact centres to our care homes; health and dental centres to our state-of-the-art hospitals across all four corners of the globe, every part of our operations are dedicated to our purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives. We pride ourselves on working with brilliant people who put our customers at the heart of everything they do.

**About The Cromwell Hospital**

The Cromwell Hospital is a major private hospital in West London providing outpatient and Inpatient service. The hospital has 180 beds and 4 suites, 6 theatres, level 2 and 3 full intensive care facilities, paediatrics, diagnostics, physiotherapy, and a dedicated day surgery unit.

The Cromwell Hospital delivers Cardiac Diagnostic Services 8am to 8pm Monday - Friday. Therefore, there will be a requirement to work through flexible work shifts.

**About the role**:
This an exciting opportunity for an experienced and competent Cardiac Physiologist who wishes to continue undertaking high-quality clinical activity in cardiac rhythm management and arrhythmia analysis, but also wants to have a broader portfolio of roles, including leadership and teaching in a department. You will be a team player able, with demonstrable proven record of working to a high-standard, and able to build good working relationships with wider MDT. This role will be based in Cromwell Hospital's Clinical Investigation Centre.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
You will perform pacemaker, ICD and CRT checks independently and to a high level of skill and quality, including device optimisation and communication with patients' Consultants as required. You will also perform and interpret ECG, exercise stress tests, Holter and BP monitors autonomously, and you'll be expected to support our Radiology and Radiotherapy departments, with patient activity where device support is required, including new technologies as and when deemed safe.

You'll be accountable for monitoring and actioning device advisories; monitoring and managing updates to device programmers and other arrhythmia equipment, e.g. ECG machines, Holter and BP monitors, in collaboration with the Medical Library as required; organising, monitoring and guiding cardiac administrative staff in remote device clinics, including individual payments and packages, as well as transfers into the local clinic and out to other departments as necessary; monitoring and managing monitor waiting lists and workload, supporting administrative staff with guidance on bookings.

**What You'll Bring**:

- BSc (Hons) in Clinical Cardiac Physiology or BSc in Healthcare Science (Cardiac Physiology) or equivalent (essential)
- Cardiac Devices accreditation by one or more of the following: International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE), European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), British Heart Rhythm Society (BHRS) (essential)
- Evidence of maintaining relevant Continuing Professional Development ILS - Immediate Life Support Course
- Being fully competent at ECG recording and interpretation, exercise ECG stress testing and ambulatory ECG monitoring (essential)

**Why work for us?**

We want people to ‘love working here', so much so that's it's at the top of our agenda and something you'll hear a lot about here at Bupa. We offer our people a great range of benefits, many of which are flexible and can be tailored to suit what's most important to you. We're a healthcare company so there's a huge focus on our people's health and wellbeing, supported by a healthy work-life balance and workplaces which are friendly, appealing spaces to support you to be at your best.

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

**Benefits**

Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It's important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. As a Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist you'll be eligible for:

- Payment of Professional Registration fees
- Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
- Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
- Discounted access to online gym