Cardiac Physiologist | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT

There is an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Cardiac Physiologist to join the Cardiac Physiology team at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

We have a friendly, dynamic inter professional cardiology team consisting of Cardiology specialist Nurses, Clinical Physiologists and 11 Consultant Cardiologists who offer a wide range of invasive and non‑invasive services across the cardiology field to the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear area.

The department currently offers physiologist‑led exercise testing, ambulatory monitoring services and a well‑established device service including both low and high voltage device implantation (including CSP) and follow‑up of specialist devices such as ICD’s and CRT’s. We perform diagnostic angiography with plans to open a second PCI cath lab in the future.

We also have an extensive echocardiography service offering Transthoracic Echocardiography, Transoesophageal Echocardiography, stress echocardiography, exercise echocardiography and contrast studies.

We are a forward‑thinking department and encourage development of staff, including training towards national accreditation.

• Carry out and interpret ECG's
• Provide analysis for ambulatory ECG's and BP's
• Carry out exercise tolerance testing
• Provide hemodynamic monitoring during diagnostic angiography
• Provide technical support during pacemaker and ILR implantation
• Develop skills in pacemaker follow‑up
• Contribute to the ILR follow‑up service

Would be supported to undertake specialist training resulting in national accreditation in either CRM or Echo.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state‑of‑the‑art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

Do you want to work in one of the best‑performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost‑effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.

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• Performing and reporting 12‑lead ECG.
• Application, removal and analysis of ambulatory monitoring.
• Give technical assistance during pacemaker/ICD implantation and assist in the provision of pacemaker follow‑up clinics.
• Provide hemodynamic monitoring during cardiac angiography.
• Take lead position during technically led Exercise Tolerance Testing.
• Under supervision perform and report transthoracic echocardiograms.
• Assist during TOE and Stress Echo procedures.

To role‑model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others; (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement; and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.

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