Band 5 Cardiac Physiologist

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available for a newly qualified Cardiac Physiologist within the cardiology department at Solihull hospital as a band 5 Cardiac Physiologist. The successful candidates will work within a friendly and professional team who strive to ensure they provide a patient focused compassionate and professional service. We are looking for someone who offers excellent communication skills, outstanding customer service skills, solid computer literacy and a drive to provide the best care for patients and support for colleagues. The successful candidates will have the relevant qualifications outlined in the person specification and will be supported fully to develop into their specialist area of choice including a preceptorship period.

Main duties of the job

The department incorporates a broad range of invasive and non-invasive procedures, both routine and complex. There is physiologist reporting of echocardiography, exercise tolerance testing, head up tilt testing, Holter monitoring / analysis and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. We have a busy pacemaker follow up service both face to face and remote clinics. We have a limited angiography and pacemaker implant service at the moment. The department is experienced and supportive of advanced practice having well established physiologist-led services such as rapid access chest pain clinic, Physiologist led contrast Echocardiography and Implantable loop recorder (ILR) implants / explants in place. We are also just about to launch our physiologist led valve clinic.

You will have opportunities to develop through rotation in all areas of the department and the chance to utilise your knowledge and experience to develop and train other staff and students.

Our continued low staff turnover within the department demonstrates what a great team Solihull cardiology department is to work within. The successful candidate will be joining a compliment of experienced clinical physiologists and will benefit from a supportive and happy working environment.

If you are patient focused, enthusiastic and highly motivated with the drive to develop yourself and others within a forward thinking, progressive environment then we'd like to hear from you.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date posted

10 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

304-50037DH

Job locations

Solihull Hospital

Lode Ln

Solihull

West Midlands

B91 2JL

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc in Clinical Physiology (or equivalent) (E)

Desirable

Working towards highly specialist post basic courses to Masters level or equivalent (D)
RCCP / AHCS registration (D)
BHRS accreditation (D)
BSE accreditation (D)
Professional Body Exams (ASCST) (D)

Experience

Essential

Band 5 -- working towards competency in invasive and non-invasive cardiology diagnostic techniques (E)
ILS (E)
Ability to work as an independent practitioner (E)
IT skills (E)

Additional Criteria

Essential

* Evidence of excellent communication skills at all levels including verbal, non-verbal and written. (E)
* Ability to communicate with all members of the multidisciplinary team, relatives and patients (E)
* Data entry (E)
* Ability to use initiative and show self-motivation (E)

Desirable

* Computer skills and word processing (D)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc in Clinical Physiology (or equivalent) (E)

Desirable

Working towards highly specialist post basic courses to Masters level or equivalent (D)
RCCP / AHCS registration (D)
BHRS accreditation (D)
BSE accreditation (D)
Professional Body Exams (ASCST) (D)

Experience

Essential

Band 5 -- working towards competency in invasive and non-invasive cardiology diagnostic techniques (E)
ILS (E)
Ability to work as an independent practitioner (E)
IT skills (E)

Additional Criteria

Essential

* Evidence of excellent communication skills at all levels including verbal, non-verbal and written. (E)
* Ability to communicate with all members of the multidisciplinary team, relatives and patients (E)
* Data entry (E)
* Ability to use initiative and show self-motivation (E)

Desirable

* Computer skills and word processing (D)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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