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Echocardiography Clinical Fellow in Critical Care

Job details
Posting date: 05 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £43,923 - £63,152 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 05 May 2024
Location: Liverpool, L7 8YE
Company: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6177316/287-RSUR-52-24

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Summary

A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


This program is aimed at senior trainees (post ST7 level) who wish to develop skills in intermediate or advanced level critical care echocardiography and ultrasound.

The fellowship is a 12-month program during which time the successful applicant will work as part of the Intensive Care Medicine clinical team on a 80% WTE basis, with 20% WTE protected time dedicated purely to echocardiography and ultrasound related activities. The clinical work involves a full shift rota compliant with current training requirements.



To develop intermediate to advanced level echocardiography and ultrasound skills including:
• Accreditation in British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) level one or FUSIC HD transthoracic echocardiography (depending on level of experience at the start of the program)
• Introduction to the use of Transoesophageal echocardiography in a general (non-cardiac) Critical Care setting
• Accreditation in Focused Transoesophageal echocardiography
• Accreditation in FUSIC Lung
• Experience in the delivery and organisation of point of care echo training
• Contribution to regional echocardiography teaching
• Contribution to research through use of echocardiography or ultrasound
• Experience in echocardiography and ultrasound governance

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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This advert closes on Friday 19 Apr 2024

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