Cardiac Physiologist

**Hours**: 37.5 hours per week

**Band**: 5

Are you a highly motivated newly qualified or soon to be qualified Cardiac Physiologist looking to work within a dynamic and friendly team at Dorset County Hospital?

You will...
- Be a self-motivated physiologist who is organised, flexible and reliable.
- Be able to inspire and advise their colleagues.
- Maintain their own clinical professional development with support and encouragement from the department.

You have...
- Have experience in monitoring in the Cardiac Catheter Lab including PCI.
- Be proficient in ambulatory monitor fitting and analysis.
- Be motivated towards or already working towards competency in pacemaker implant/follow-up and/or echocardiograms.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a dynamic and friendly team, that is actively developing both echo and device services including physiologist led clinics. We actively support IBHRE/BSE and other professional qualifications and are currently working towards departmental BSE accreditation.

At DCHFT, we pride ourselves on the care we provide for our patients, and on the culture, we are creating for our staff. We work hard to create a fair, inclusive environment for our staff.

Our Mission is to provide outstanding care for people in ways which matter to them, and our vision is Dorset County Hospital, working with our health and social care partners, will be at the heart of improving the well-being of our communities.

To undertake the following duties independently and without supervision:

- To perform 12-Lead ECG recordings.
- To fit ambulatory ECG and blood pressure monitors.
- Once signed off as competent to interpret and report Holter tape analysis.
- Non-medically and medically supervised Exercise Tolerance Testing procedures.
- Once signed off as competent to act as the lead physiologist during Brady pacemaker

implant.
- To act as the assisting physiologist in the pacemaker follow-up clinic.

To develop skills and experience in the following areas under supervision:

- To perform haemodynamic monitoring in the Catheter Lab during angiography and PCI procedures including, but not limited to, left and right heart catheterisations, CTO,

primary PCI and pressure wire studies.
- Provide technical support during brady pacemaker implantation and develop skills

and experience in complex device implantation (e.g. CRT and ICD)
- To develop skills in complex device follow-up (e.g. CRT and ICD)
- Transthoracic 2D Echocardiography and assisting with Transoesophageal echoes.

To perform the above independently when deemed appropriately competent, with indirect supervision as required until full accreditation is achieved (e.g. review/authorisation of Echo reports by senior BSE accredited staff