Job overview
Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist-Echocardiography
37.5 hours per week (4 day week Monday - Friday)
Fixed term for 3 months
Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Closing Date: 28th July 2025
Interview Date: TBC
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The Physiological Sciences services, at George Eliot Hospital Nuneaton, are looking to recruit a Highly specialist Cardiac Physiologist Echocardiography.
Main duties of the job
Purpose
- The post holder will be a BSE accredited reporting sonographer. They will be required to work along side the Lead Echocardiographer to provide a comprehensive and high quality transthoracic and transoesophageal echo services and will provide professional expertise in this highly specialised discipline.
- The post holder will maintain a high standard of clinical practice and will act as a role model for junior members of staff within the Cardiac investigations department.
Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist-Echocardiography
- To perform adult transthoracic echocardiograms, including urgent portable scans, to a high standard in accordance with BSE guidelines and department standards.
- To identify and advise when transthoracic echocardiography is insufficient to answer the clinical question and proactively suggest alternative/additional investigations.
- To produce an accurate and comprehensive report for each study, with responsibility for your own caseload.
- To over report junior staff workload and ensure minimum data sets are obtained and standards are regularly audited.
- To provide clinical technical assistance with Transoesophageal echo.
- To ensure adherence to cleaning protocols for TOE probes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To perform adult transthoracic echocardiograms, including urgent portable scans, to a high standard in accordance with BSE guidelines and department standards.
- To identify and advise when transthoracic echocardiography is insufficient to answer the clinical question and proactively suggest alternative/additional investigations.
- To produce an accurate and comprehensive report for each study, with responsibility for your own caseload.
- To ensure that personal knowledge base is current to reflect change in clinical echocardiography. Leading CPD of junior staff.
- To over report junior staff workload and ensure minimum data sets are obtained and standards are regularly audited.
- To provide clinical technical assistance with Transoesophageal echo.
- To ensure adherence to cleaning protocols for TOE probes.
Clinical – Specialist Technical
- To undertake a range of cardiac clinical procedures to aid diagnosis and treatment of referred patients to include -
To record and interpret resting adult electrocardiograms.
To prepare, fit and remove 24 hour cardiac and blood pressure monitors.
To issue long term monitoring equipment, programming the device appropriate to patient symptoms
To be clinical lead during cardiac exercise tests, performing and interpreting in accordance with British Cardiac Society guidelines and department standards. To produce a diagnostic report.
To provide Cardiac Physiologist support during routine/ elective angiography
- To record and interpret resting adult electrocardiograms.
- To prepare, fit and remove 24 hour cardiac and blood pressure monitors.
- To issue long term monitoring equipment, programming the device appropriate to patient symptoms
- To be clinical lead during cardiac exercise tests, performing and interpreting in accordance with British Cardiac Society guidelines and department standards. To produce a diagnostic report.
- To provide Cardiac Physiologist support during routine/ elective angiography
Other requirements:
- To undertake duties as an autonomous practitioner.
- To analyse and interpret data, using specialist theoretical knowledge and experience, to produce procedure results and reports, which contribute to patient diagnosis and treatment.
- To communicate with medical and nursing staff to provide effective services for patient care, and to inform/alert them of any patients requiring immediate or urgent attention following interpretation and analysis of test results.
- To assess patients’ physical and mental abilities to perform and follow test procedures, and to use persuasive, motivation and reassurance skills to achieve optimum diagnostic results.
- To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating.
- To manage clinical risk and take responsibility for patient safety during test procedures. This may include initiating and leading Immediate Life Support.
- To provide specialised advice and instruction to patients, relatives, carers and other professionals on the use of loan equipment and to promote understanding of cardiac services.
- To have specialist knowledge and skills in the use and application of relevant equipment and to be responsible for your own and others safe and competent use of that equipment.
- To take appropriate action on unsafe/malfunctioning equipment.
- To follow departmental, Trust and manufacturers protocols and guidelines in the decontamination and sterilisation of equipment to ensure compliance with Health and Safety standards.
- To undertake any new technical developments and associated services and be prepared to participate in an on-call rota or flexible shift patterns to accommodate changing trends in health care.
- To participate in any department research, clinical trials or audit.
Professional:
- To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through CPD activities, and to maintain a portfolio which reflects personal development.
- To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence based practice and incorporate new developments into your area of work.
- To participate in staff Individual Performance Review (IPR) appraisal scheme and be responsible for complying with your agreed personal development program to meet set knowledge and competencies.
- To attend and participate in in-service training programs, individual training sessions and external courses as expected/identified at IPR.
- To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and risk management and to apply to the work situation.
Organisational:
- To work in accordance with Trust and department policies and standards.
- To ensure that own practice meets the required professional standards of specialist expertise.
- To attend mandatory training sessions as determined by the Trust.
- To record activity by updating databases to enable performance monitoring.
Relationships
Internal:
- Department colleagues
- Patients and relatives
- Directorate managers
- Consultants and teams
- Allied Health Professional department managers
- Ward managers and staff
- Finance and purchasing managers
- Stores and housekeeping
- PALS
- Information
- Complaints
External:
- Patients and relatives/carers
- CCG
- GP’s within locality
- Company representatives/ service departments
- Regional department managers
- Voluntary/ charitable organisations
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
