Cardiac Physiologist

Job Overview

To work as a team member within cardiac clinical physiology services and without supervision to undertake basic cardiac clinical physiology procedures e.g. recording electrocardiograms (ECGs). Holter Monitors and Blood Pressure applications .To assist the cardiac clinical physiologists in more complex cardiac physiology procedures e.g. implantable cardiac monitors, cardiac exercise tolerance testing and tilt table testing.

To support departmental administration as required, liaising with other professionals to ensure that patients receive in a timely manner cardiac physiology procedures as required.

To work to the standards set by the Society for Cardiological Science and Technology (SCST) and British Cardiac Society (BCS).

Main duties of the job

• Perform diagnostic quality 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) and Ambulatory ECGs in wards/departments throughout the organisation to obtain physiological data from patients (adults, children and neonates)
• Without supervision set up, apply and instruct in the use of Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) and longer term patient activated monitors on inpatients and outpatients.
• Without Supervision set up, apply and instruct the use of Holter Monitors ( 24hr,48hr,72hr), and 14 day tapes
• Assist Cardiac Physiologists during procedures with high risk of patient adverse events e.g. Exercise Tolerance Tests and Tilt Table Tests
• Recognise signs and symptoms of life-threatening and urgent cardiac abnormalities and take steps to support patients as necessary.
• To undertake ECG interpretation after sufficient training.
• To undertake Ambulatory ECG analysis with supervision after sufficient training.
• To assist the Cardiac Physiologists in Implantable Cardiac Monitor (ICM) implants in the Cardiac Catheter Lab.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Maths and English Grade C and above
• GCSE Equivalent
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience within a Cardiology department
• Knowledge of ETT and Tape analysis
• Excellent ECG interpretation and reporting skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience with HUTT
• Experience with 6MWT
• Experience with CPET
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good communication skills
• Excellent report interpretation
• Skill to work with staff of all levels throughout the trust
• Reliable and flexible to the needs of the service
  
  

Desirable criteria

• 7 days working
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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