Echo Training Lead | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 September 2024 |
| Location: | Preston, PR2 9HT |
| Company: | Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6163109/438-PB1523 |
Summary
Are you self-motivated, well organised with excellent interpersonal skills. Do you have the ability to prioritise and use your own initiative, have a flexible attitude and the willingness to travel between sites? Then this is the role for you.
We currently have an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated Echocardiographer to join our dedicated and friendly team at the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust is based across two sites, Preston and Chorley Hospitals and this post will include work within the brand new Preston Community Diagnostic Hub.
Continuous professional development is strongly encouraged at this Trust and you will have excellent opportunities to develop further your skills and knowledge.
Training and supervision will form part of this role. We have recently appointed a trainee associate practitioner. You will be responsible to mentor, provide training, development and support of this candidate.
You must have proven post-registration experience with a BSc (Hons) Degree qualification in Cardiology or equivalent. You should have extensive experience as a senior cardiac physiologist and must have RCCP and BSE Accreditation.
To autonomously manage, co-ordinate and direct training pathway associated with the Echocardiography Service in the Cardio-Respiratory Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The post-holder will be responsible for all trainee highly specialised cardiac physiologists working in this area.
The post-holder will be a highly skilled cardiac physiologist working as an independent practitioner to directly deliver patient care and well-being.
To lead/mentor colleagues working towards successful BSE accreditation
We are a self reporting centre with BSE Laboratory Accreditation for transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography. The successful candidate will work mainly in performing and reporting adult transthoracic echocardiograms but will also contribute to the provision of other clinical measurement services, if required.
You will be responsible for assisting in the day-to-day running of the service, and perform the wide range of investigations. We are also hoping to extend our services with the permanent additions of stress, 3D imaging and tissue Doppler. This is a new post created to support the increasing demand outlined above and the proposed plans for our echocardiogram services
We perform both invasive and non invasive studies within the Trust performing 16,000 transthoracic, 200 Transoesophageal and 90 contrast and bubble studies per annum. We also have an Open Access Heart Failure Service for our local GPs, established in 2002, performing 800 studies last year. The Trust is also a tertiary centre for nephrology, neurosurgery and cancer services where our echocardiography service is utilised prior to and post treatment for patients.
We have five Consultant Cardiologists and currently serve a population of 390,000. We are a teaching hospital and actively participate in the training of SpR’s and Registrars.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
• To autonomously manage, co-ordinate and direct training pathway associated with the Echocardiography Service in the Cardio-Respiratory Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The post-holder will be responsible for all trainee highly specialised cardiac physiologists working in this area.
The post-holder will be a highly skilled cardiac physiologist working as an independent practitioner to directly deliver patient care and well-being.
To lead/mentor colleagues working towards successful BSE accreditation
• To ensure that performance of their duties and clinical practices conforms to agreed national policies and procedures, which reflect current scientific and technical knowledge and principles of practice according to guidelines of the respective professional bodies.
• To perform, unsupervised, all routine non-invasive techniques/investigations of the department and provide advice and/or reports to clinicians.
• To be able to perform, unsupervised, advanced non-invasive techniques/investigations of the department and provide advice and/or reports to clinicians on the appropriateness of diagnostic investigations.
• Ability to provide a range of complex facts, analysis and interpretation to all areas of investigation within the Cardio Respiratory Department.
• To produce complex reports as an independent practitioner in echocardiography
• To assist Consultant Cardiologist in routine and complex procedures.
• Observation and recording of cardiac physiological measurements. To provide accurate measurements and factual reports.
• To perform first line resuscitation with defibrillation.
• To provide immediate real time diagnostic information to medics and advise the need for any further tests.
• To assist in audit procedures of the service.
• To assist in diagnostic studies utilising TOE, pericardiocentesis, bubble contrast and stress echo studies, if required.
• To assist in the performance of 3D and TDI examinations as the service develops
• To perform follow up procedures as a competent, independent practitioner
• To provide an out of hours on call service
• To assist in piloting new service developments in echocardiography
• To interpret and report clinical results within all investigations performed by the department.
• To assist the Manager in the production of audit, review and quality assurance
• Responsible for direct follow up of patients, if required
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Sep 2024