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Job Overview
Frimley Health Foundation Trust
Advanced Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiography)
Contract: Full Time, 1-Year Fixed Term (Maternity Leave Cover)
Department: Cardiology Investigations Unit (CIU)
The Cardiology Investigations Unit (CIU) at Frimley Park Hospital provides a comprehensive range of both invasive and non-invasive diagnostic cardiology services for inpatients and outpatients. Our services include a 7-day non-invasive testing schedule and a 24/7 Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) service.
We are seeking an experienced and motivated cardiac physiologist to join our team on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. The successful candidate will be a competent and independent practitioner in echocardiography, including experience with stress echocardiography and contrast-enhanced imaging.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Performing and reporting echocardiography procedures independently
Supporting advanced imaging techniques such as stress and contrast echo
- Contributing to the training, supervision, and development of junior staff
- Acting as a specialist technical resource within the team
- Demonstrating flexibility in response to service demands and departmental changes
We are looking for an individual with a commitment to clinical excellence and continued professional development. A willingness to learn and further enhance your knowledge and skills is essential.
Main duties of the job
- Expert with a high level of professional and clinical knowledge acquired through formal training / experience in echocardiography.
- Registered physiologist either with the council for Clinical Physiologists and British Society of Echocardiography accreditation.
- The post holder will have substantial experience in cardiology, significant experience at a senior level with highly developed specialist knowledge in echocardiography.
- The post holder will carry out highly specialist echocardiography procedures including stress echo and physiologist led valve clinics. They should hold specialised clinical reporting skills and knowledge.
- Personal management, including time management and the ability to prioritise.
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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience in cardiology, significant experience at a senior level
- Demonstrate expert knowledge of echocardiography including complex echo
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and / or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to work as part of a team
- Knowledge and / or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
Desirable criteria
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Clinical physiology degree or equivalent in experience including specialist courses
- British Society of Echocardiograph Accreditation / qualification (BSE
Desirable criteria
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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