Professional Lead Echocardiography B8a

Job summary

The post holder will be the professional lead responsible for providing day-to-day clinical leadership to the echocardiography team, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality service across all Trust sites.Working in conjunction with the service manager to align processes/protocols across the echo service, as well as quality assurance and the development of sub-speciality services.

Main duties of the job

Provide day to day clinical management and supervision of staff within the Echo team ensuring internal and external targets are monitored and delivered.Have a high degree of personal and professional autonomy. Can make clinical judgments and critical decisions of the highest order, using knowledge, skills, and experience.

To exercise personal responsibility and demonstrate highly complex decision-making skills in unpredictable situations; adapting quickly to changes in service, patients and/or departmental need.To work closely with the Cardio Respiratory and Vascular Diagnostics Service Manager in developing capacity and demand plans and service development requirements for echocardiology services,identifying workforce and equipment requirements in a timely manner to ensure capacity is maximised and maintained at all times.

About us

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care,child health,maternity services and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides over 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff. A comprehensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools through ourCentral Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.

We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

Employer details

Employer name

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

MCHFT

Crewe

CW1 4QJ

Employer's website

https://www.mcht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

MCHFT

Crewe

CW1 4QJ

Employer's website

https://www.mcht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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