Job Description

Job Introduction

We have an exciting part time opportunity for a Senior Cardiac Physiologist to join the Specialist Cardiac and Respiratory Service. You will be covering various locations across north and west Wiltshire alongside Consultant Cardiologists, Heart Failure Specialist Nurses, GPs and other healthcare professionals regarding patient care as required.


You will be working in community based rapid access diagnostic clinics and community heart failure services, the post holder will perform, and report, high quality echocardiograms and other non-invasive cardiac investigations as required, providing specialised advice in the field of echocardiography and other non-invasive cardiac investigations. The post holder will also be responsible for elements of training, service development, clinical and peer audit..



For Further information or an informal chat please contact Jane Lindsay - Jane.Lindsay@hcrgcaregroup.com




Main Responsibilities
Work as an autonomous practitioner within the Community Heart Failure Team, being responsible

for the provision of non-invasive cardiac investigations, predominantly echocardiography, resting

ECGs and ambulatory monitoring, to the population of North and West Wiltshire Work in various community health centre settings, providing high quality, patient-centred care with

responsibility for clinical imaging standards

Perform domiciliary cardiac investigations, usually echocardiography, on housebound patients as

required

Provide clinical supervision, audit and training of other cardiac physiologists within the Service.

In addition to the clinical workload, the post-holder will:

Collaborate with other members of the Community Heart Failure and Cardiac Diagnostic Teams

to provide specialised advice, training, mentoring, supervision, and assessment in the field of non-invasive cardiac investigations relevant to the service.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual with clinical expertise and a passion for care. The successful candidate will be a team player who is flexible and adaptable to the needs of the service, who enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team delivering high quality care.

Essential

B.Sc. In Clinical Science or Clinical Physiology or HTEC Medical Physics & Physiological Measurement, or equivalent

Extensive post-qualification clinical experience in echocardiography and ECG

BSE Accreditation RCCP registration Immediate Life Support Certification Extensive post qualification experience in echocardiography and ECG Fully competent in echocardiography procedures, analysis and both technical and

clinical reporting

Extensive knowledge of cardiac physiological investigations Specialist knowledge of echocardiography techniques Substantial experience of teaching, assessing, supervising and/or managing staff /trainees Autonomous practitioner Ability to concentrate for long periods of time, careful and accurate Ability to produce comprehensive technical reports Clinical assessment

Please see the attached attached for the full list.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.


Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.



We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.


While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.


As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.


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Package Description

As an Cardiac Physiologist, you'll be part of our valued team in North and West Wiltshire.


You will feel valued as a

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Salary of 53,755 - 60,504 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions

Free tea and coffee at your base location Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least 100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year * The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission