Trainee Echocardiographer

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Halifax; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

Are you a registered Healthcare Scientist with the AHCS, or completing your undergraduate Healthcare Science degree this academic year and are looking to specialise in Echocardiography?

Here at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust we have an exciting opportunity for an 18 month fixed term full-time training post in Echocardiography. This is part of the Echocardiography Training Programme (ETP) developed by the National School of Healthcare Science and trains you to become highly skilled in performing and reporting cardiac ultrasound diagnostic procedures.

Applicants for this programme are required to have a 1st or 2:1 in either an undergraduate honours degree in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific subject such as Biology, Human Biology or Sports Science. Applicants who are completing their undergraduate Cardiac Physiology (PTP) programme this year are also encouraged to apply but must be registered with the AHCS by the time the programme starts.

The successful ETP trainee will be trained to BSE accreditation level 2 and be awarded a Post-graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography.

The Trainee Echocardiographer will be employed for a fixed term of 18 months within the Cardio-Respiratory Department during which time they will work through a programme of learning.

In conjunction with and supported by the Designated Echocardiography Training Officer, the Trainee Echocardiographer will be responsible for their own progression through the training programme, completing a mixture of work based competence and experience within CHFT, completing the learning outcomes as outlined in the ETP curriculum, undertaking the complementary academic Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography and preparing for and completing the BSE Transthoracic Accreditation process.

At all times the Trainee Echocardiographer is expected to work within standard operating policies and procedures of the host department and NHS organisation and adhere to high standards of professionalism, health and safety, risk reduction, confidentiality, patient care and dignity, and respect for equality and diversity as set out in the NHS Constitution.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: James Battye
Job title: Head of Cardiac and Respiratory Physiology Service
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 01422224310

Rachel Wild
Clinical Physiology Service Lead for Echocardiography
[e-mail]
01422 224310