Highly Specialist Cardiac Healthcare Scientist/ Clinical Scientist-CRM

Highly Specialist Cardiac Healthcare Scientist/ Clinical Scientist-CRM

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

Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (4 day week Monday - Friday)

Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent

Closing Date: 20th December 2024

Interview Date: 8th January 2025 (subject to change)

**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.

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 to provide specialist skills and leadership within a team offering diagnostic angiography and pacing implant and follow-up services.

About us

Here at George Eliot, our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. 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. 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: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden, and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Job 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 Training

• 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)
• HCPC registered
• Intermediate Life Support
• Mary Seacole NHS Leadership Award or equivalent
• DClinSci or PhD

Experience and Knowledge

• 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
• Experience of Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation process

Skills and Abilities

• Day-to-day local rota management
• Comprehensive leadership and management abilities
• Self-disciplined and self-motivated
• Ability to manage and lead a team in emergency situations
• Ability to engage the team and develop changes in working practices including research and audit
• IT competency
• 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

• 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£46,148 to £52,809 per annum (dependent on experience)