Chief Cardiac Physiologist (ECHO)

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Cardiac Physiologist specialising in Echo to join our friendly team.

Please note any genuine job offer letters will only be received if you have applied, interviewed, and received a verbal offer from the appointing manager for a vacancy within Sherwood Forest Hospitals. If you receive a job offer and you are not sure of its authenticity, please report it to the following email [email protected]

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us., Our service provides range of diagnostic services, including outpatient and inpatient Echo (adult and paediatric), Stress Echo (DSE and e-bike), Bubble, Contrast, Adult and Paediatric Congenital clinics and Cardio-Oncology clinic. We have top of the range echo machines with 4D capability. We are currently in the process of establishing several Physiologist-led services and actively pursuing BSE departmental accreditation.
Our staff benefit from compressed working hours, working 8am to 6pm 4 days per week and 50-minute echo slot times with an echo assistant, in modern, airconditioned facilities. We do not have on-call for echo. We aim to provide 20% off probe time to all sonographers to reduce MSK and support role expansion / CPD.
We are committed to team development, offering further training both internally and externally and course opportunities including attendance to BSE conference. We are lucky to have a highly experienced team, who have a passion for training, including two BSE assessors and a strong record of successful training, meaning we are well-positioned to support our team members' professional growth and skill advancement.
We will consider applications from newly qualified physiologists and those wishing to train or complete training in echocardiography., Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us., Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be invoiced to you once you've commenced employment. The current price of a check is £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.