Senior Cardiac Physiologist

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is the largest non-teaching hospital trust in England. With strong local ties and serving around 675,000 residents in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire, they pride themselves on providing comprehensive acute and specialist services.

The Trust has one main site, Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, and looks after six peripheral community sites for outpatient activity.

Here at Portsmouth Staff Bank, we support the Trust with temporary staff in all staff groups. We offer our workers an excellent service that allows them to work flexibly whilst enjoying several benefits including:

- Online timesheets
- Weekly pay
- Priority over agency workers
- Supportive on-site teams
- And many more

To make sure that our bank workers are fully supported we have a dedicated recruitment and compliance team. They work hard to ensure that our workers can start booking shifts as soon as possible. In addition, a helpful bookings desk and on-site team are there to assist them and answer any questions.

**Key Responsibilities**:

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Performing 12 Lead ECG’s and has a skilled knowledge of ECG interpretation.**:

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Independently and confidently perform ECG’s, ambulatory monitoring, analyses results and provides a comprehensive and accurate report to enable clinical decisions to be made regarding patient treatment.**:

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Responsible for acting as lead for Exercise ECG testing.**:

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To be fully conversant with emergency arrest procedures including defibrillation.**:

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To be part of the Cardiac Cath labs, be expert in routine invasive procedures, including diagnostic angiograms, PCI and primary PCI. Participate in training for EP cases and ablations.**:

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To be an active part of the 24/7 on call catheter lab team,**:

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To be part of the Cardioversion team, specifically involved in performing defibrillations on the patient.**:

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Take part in 24/7 on call rota for primary angioplasty.**:

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Skilled knowledge in Pacemaker implantation to include VVI and DDD implants.**

**Qualifications**
- Degree in BSc Clinical Physiology or equivalent.
- Working towards Masters level qualification.
- RCCP registered.
- Intermediate life support certification.**Skills and Knowledge**
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
- Flexible
- Organisational skills
- Ability to prioritise workload.
- Strong interpersonal skills.**Experience**

Experience as working within a clinical cardiology environment.
- Experience in all routine clinical Cardiac physiological testing invasive and non-invasive Cardiology.