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Job summary

Main area
Cardiac Physiology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent: (Monday - Friday 4 day working week)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (4 day week Monday - Friday)
Job ref
230-36782466-MED-CHS-A
Employer
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
George Eliot Hospital
Town
Nuneaton
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum (dependant on experience)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust logo

Highly Specialist Cardiac Healthcare Scientist/ Clinical Scientist-CRM

NHS AfC: Band 7

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

Our vision isÌý"to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and joinÌý#TeamEliot.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour aren’t as likely to apply unless they meet every qualification of non specialist roles.

We’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role and meet our values, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with everything in the Job Description or Person Specification– apply anyway or email the Recruiting Manager to discuss the role furtherÌý

We are proud to support the Armed Forces community. We are a Veteran Aware and Reservist Friendly organisation and welcome applications from Veterans, Reservists, Cadet Instructors, and family members of serving personnel.Ìý

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Job overview

Job Title: Highly Specialised Cardiac Healthcare Scientist/ Clinical Scientist - Cardiac Rhythm Management

Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)

Perm/Fixed Term: PermanentÌý

Salary: £43,742- £50,056 per annum (dependant on experience)

Closing Date: 17th January 2025

Interview Date: TBC

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.Ìý

#JoinTeamEliot

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Cardiac Physiologist or Clinical Scientist to join our growing invasive team.

The post holder will be expected to work as an independent practitioner in to provide specialist skills and leadership within a team offering diagnostic angiography and pacing implant and follow up services.Ìý

Working for our organisation

Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’Ìý takes centre stage.Ìý An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do.Ìý Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits:Ìý On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working,Ìý extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To improve patient care by optimising pacemaker and ICD prescriptions with ongoing assessment of patient symptoms.

To ensure adherence to clinical guidelines and pathways of Physiologists undertaking device follow up and implantation.

To be responsible for the safe use of complex and expensive equipment.

To assess and adapt clinical techniques following assessment for each procedure to meet the individual needs of the patient.

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.

Please note that this list is not exhaustive, full details are in the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualification and Professional Traing

Essential criteria
  • BSC in Clinical Physiology (Cardiology) or equivalent APEL and ONC, plus HNC in Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement (MPPM)
  • Master level degree or equivalent qualification in Healthcare Science
  • Accreditation with IBHRE or HRUK
  • Part of the Society for Cardiological Science and Technology (MSCST)
Desirable criteria
  • HCPC registered
  • Intermediate Life Support
  • Mary Seacole NHS Leadership Award or equivalent
  • DClinSci or PhD

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience in a formal leadership role within an NHS Hospital Trust
  • Experience as an independent practitioner across a broad range of cardiac procedures with acquired highly specialist knowledge and experience in cardiac rhythm management devices
  • Evidence of clinical research and audit
  • Developing and implementing training packages
  • Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience with governance, QA and/or complaint management
  • Experience of planning and developing specialist services including contributing toward local and national policies
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation process

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Day-to-day local rota management
  • Comprehensive leadership and management abilities
  • Self-disciplined and self-motivated
  • Ability to manage and lead team in emergency situations
  • Ability to engage the team and develop changes in working practices including research and audit
  • IT competency
  • Evidence to demonstrate continual professional development
  • Excellent communication skills written and verbal
  • Excellent analytical and influencing skills
  • Able to prioritise workload as changes occur and to simultaneously focus on a particular task to meet set deadlines
  • To be able to assist patients to dress and undress
  • To be able to push, maneuver and assist patients to transfer from wheelchair to examining couch
  • To be able to deal sensitively with anxious patients and relatives attending the department for tests and to answer patient complaints/ queries.
  • To be able to deal with occasional exposure to distressing circumstances
  • To be able to deal with and advise on personal and professional staff issues.
  • To be able to apply concentration in the interpretation and analysis of test data and results, together with a high level of concentration during patient test procedures.
  • To be able to concentrate for prolonged periods when producing service reports, business cases and planning.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Professional manner
  • To demonstrate the ability to lead and organise a team of staff
  • To be able to combine the demands of leading a team with the commitment to clinical input
  • Ability to form positive working relationships
  • To demonstrate the ability to facilitate changes in practice
  • Flexible and reliable
  • Good previous health record

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardPride In Veterans

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Shirley Murray
Job title
Lead Healthcare Scientist - CRM
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02476865128