Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist

The Mid-Yorkshire Teaching NHS trust is delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist to join our friendly, supportive, and driven team. Our busy cardiac service has undergone recent restructuring after the appointment of our new Cardiac Physiology manager building on our strong reputation for very high standards of care. The team provides a service across our 4 sites with the addition of our brand new community diagnostic centre. We deliver adult TTE, stress echo (ESE, DSE, bicycle ergometer), contrast/ bubble echo, TOEs and is currently working to towards implementation of physiologist led valve clinics. The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, motivated and committed to developing their practical expertise and knowledge. As well as leadership skills. Continuous professional development is a cornerstone of the team, where you will be encouraged and supported to achieve your full potential. In addition to your professional development, you will participate in regular audits and provide valuable insights to contribute towards service development., Provide cardiac physiology expertise within the specialist area of echocardiography ensuring optimal standards of care are delivered.

• Be able to perform and report routine and complex adult transthoracic echos independently, with a high level of skill and autonomy and good under-pinning practical and theoretical knowledge.
• Have a good base knowledge of other cardiac investigations
• Participate in robust triage of echo referrals for appropriateness.
• Provide training, supervision and mentorship of trainees in echocardiography from different programmes/ clinical backgrounds, including BSE accreditation, STP/ ETP students and registrars.
• Contribute to review, update and amendment of standard operating procedures, training documentation and patient information leaflets in accordance with local and national guidelines.
• Utilise specialist IT/ archive systems to produce records of complex clinical and technical data, ensuring information is stored accurately for governance, review and audit purposes.
• Identify areas in the echocardiography service requiring improvement/ development and suggest ways of achieving improvements.
• Participate in Continuing Professional Development and other developmental activities, including research and clinical trials.
• Work with Team Leaders and the Service Manager in further developing the clinical physiology service.
  
  You will have proven competency in Adult Echocardiography and will hold BSE accreditation.
Applicants working towards completion of the BSE logbook may be considered for the post at Band 6 to progress to Band 7. Banding of successful applicant/s will start at Band 6 until the necessary threshold of skills, experience and BSE accreditation is achieved for progression to Band 7.

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community setting and across our four hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury, Pinderfields and CDC (Wakefield). Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce. We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care. We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience. We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.