Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist/Clinical Scientist
| Posting date: | 03 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9298-CRS-280 |
Summary
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Clinical Duties To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspect of own work, including the management of patients in your care. Routinely undertakes assessment of both in-patients and out-patients prior to a range of Cardiological Investigations and uses own discretion in order to ensure the patient is suitable for the investigation. Gives lead specialist advice during highly complex situations where analytical judgement is required to all other members of the multi-disciplinary team including consultant physicians. Carries out all aspects of clinical work as approved by their Line Manager. Lead Specialist in own clinical field. Implements change in own specialist area based on own experience and evidence-based practice. Works within and towards national guidelines and directives, e.g., BSE guidelines. Works as an autonomous practitioner within established departmental policies and those recognised by international organisations. Communicates with all members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible care for patients, including: negotiating, reassurance, empathy, and persuasiveness. Communicates sensitive information about routine and complex cardiac investigations to patients and relatives/carers and those with learning and/or physical disabilities. Calibrates and manipulates a wide range of complex, expensive, technical equipment which process, create, update and store information. Performs / provides factual reports on a number of the following investigations on a region-wide range of Cardiac and Medical patients including acutely ill patients and elderly patients and those with a range of physical and learning disabilities: - Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) - 3D/4D Echocardiography - Strain/speckle Echocardiography - Bubble Contrast Echocardiography - Left Ventricular Opacification Echocardiography (LVO) - Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT) - Physiologist Led Stress Testing - Sonographer Led Valve Clinic - Support for Transoesophageal Echocardiography - Support for Interventional Cardiology Reports equipment faults in accordance with departmental policy. Demonstrates personal duty of care for safe use of expensive and highly complex equipment. Is responsible for ensuring that others are fully trained in the safe use of such equipment within their specialist area. Responsible for maintenance of stock levels by ordering from pre-agreed tender schedules and by seeking new resources as service demands change. Responsible for day-to-day security of expensive equipment, e.g., portable ultrasound machines, TOE probes. Professional Responsible for maintaining own technical competencies in clinical areas. Responsible for reporting clinical incidents and adverse events to the Service Manager, e.g., ultrasound probe heating / Datix. Maintain state registration. Responsible for formal mentorship and coordination of training for designated staff in training within own specialist area. Provides highly specialist training on a day-to-day basis for doctors and cardiac physiologists. Be an active member of the in-service training programme by attendance at, and participation in, in-service training programmes, tutorials, individual training sessions, external courses and peer review. Undertakes Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in accordance with Personal Development Plan (PDP) as developed with Line Manager. Attends and participates in departmental staff meetings. Maintains and develops current knowledge of evidence-based practice in each clinical area. Responsible for the implementation and evaluation of capital and consumable equipment prior to purchase to ensure the equipment fulfils both service requirements and budget restrictions. Frequently undertakes collection of data for use in audit, research projects and equipment testing. Regularly undertakes clinical trials involving new and emerging technologies. Regularly provides training in Highly Specialist Cardiological techniques to staff members including specialist physiologists and medical staff. Collaborates with the Service Manager towards changes that may impact the wider service provision. Organisational Ability to prioritise and organise the clinical caseload within a designated area of Cardiology. Includes planning and organisation of expected and acute workload and deployment of more junior staff within that area. Accountable for the delivery and day to day management of the delegated area of responsibility within their speciality. Effort Required to exert moderate physical effort. Frequent transferring of patients and equipment on both trolleys and wheelchairs. Prolonged MSK activity whilst performing ultrasound scans. Is forced to deal with confrontation from industry representatives who can be demanding and intrusive. There is a frequent requirement for prolonged periods of concentration. Occasional requirements for both prolonged and highly intense levels of concentration. Frequently interrupted during clinical work to give highly specialist advice to peers, physicians and takes urgent calls from other sources, e.g., staff at other hospitals within the region whom are seeking urgent advice. Exposure to highly distressing situations, e.g., cardiac arrhythmias, anaphylaxis, respiratory and cardiac arrest. To comply with the Trusts manual handling policy at all times. Frequent exposure to unpleasant working conditions on a regular daily basis e.g.: bodily fluids including blood, sputum, vomit, urine, fleas and lice. Occasional exposure to highly emotional situation away from own clinical area, e.g., having to perform echocardiography as part of assessment for organ retrieval. Occasional exposure to verbal and physical aggression. Frequently deals sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility.