Chief Cardiac Physiologist Band 7

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to join our small friendly team in the Cardiac Investigations at Whittington Health NHS Trust, North London

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and knowledgeable Cardiac Physiologist to work as a Chief Cardiac physiologist specialising in Adult and Paediatric echocardiography.

You will have a degree in cardiac physiology or other relevant qualifications plus relevant experience in adult and paediatric echocardiography.

BSE or equivalent echo accreditation is highly desirable.

The cardiac investigations department is a small busy department and comprises of a team of cardiac physiologists providing full non-invasive diagnostic investigations to inpatients and outpatients across the wider community.

We currently run 2 adult echo lists per day, including stress echo, contrast and bubble echo, and have 2 portable machines for the inpatient lists. We also provide support to the Paediatric department and provide a paediatric echo list once a week, therefore paediatric experience is essential.

There is further scope for training in pacemaker follow up for the right candidate. The post holder will also be involved in training junior physiologist and medical staff. The trust is committed to funding CPD.

Over the past 15 years the Clinical and Academic Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Whittington Health has consistently been awarded a customer excellence award, the national standard for customer service excellence.

Main duties of the job

To conduct routine procedures include:

Echocardiography (performing and reporting adult and paediatric echos)

And from time to time conducting:

Electrocardiography

Exercise Testing

Holter monitoring including ECG, BP and Event recording.

Over the past 15 years the Clinical and Academic Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Whittington Health has consistently been awarded a customer excellence award, the national standard for customer service excellence.

The department is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team including five Cardiology Consultants providing a full diagnostic cardiovascular service to the hospital and local general practitioners.

Over many years, our department has pioneered services that have bridged the divide between different parts of the National Health Service.  This opportunity has become more apparent with the establishment of Whittington Health as an integrated care organisation following the merger of the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust with Islington Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Haringey PCT, becoming the first integrated care organisation (ICO) in the United Kingdom.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Perform and report adult and paediatric Echocardiograms.

Perform, supervise, and report Cardiac exercise testing as a service to the hospital consultants and open access GP requests. In addition, patients must be examined with relation to the contraindications of exercise testing especially when performing GP open access assessments.

Perform and report pacemaker checks.

Perform 24 hours Holter ECG, BP and event recorder monitoring, both procedure and analysis.

Train physiologist and medical staff in all areas of cardiac physiology.