Senior Cardiac Physiologist

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Looking for a friendly place to work ? If you would like a chance to develop and support a developing service with a young and dynamic team then this is the perfect opportunity. We have excellent transport links to both Central London and Kent.

With Seven Cardiology Consultants this is a busy service with have a young team of physiologists keen to learn and develop.

Our fields of expertise include interventional cardiology, complex device therapy and specialist echocardiography. We are keen to develop physiologist led services with Echo and to provide new Community echo services as well as continuing in Hospital services to include DSE, ESE, TOE .

We have recently been awarded the Eltham Community Diagnostic Centre and all new post at QEH with rotate to our CDC service.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

We invite applications from enthusiastic, self motivated Cardiac Physiologists. You will have a proven track record in the field of Clinical Echocardiography to both support and develop our services and promote training of our registrars and Junior staff .

Applicants will have a BSc in Clinical Physiology RCCP registration and BSE accreditation as a minimum.

The successful applicant will be capable of providing an excellent level of clinic competence and knowledge. The post holder should also be highly team focused, a positive role model and possess good communication, organisational and assertiveness skills.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide leadership for the ECG service and the provision of cardiac
investigations.

To hold the delegated responsibility for the analysis and interpretation of specific investigations and ensuring efficient distribution of such results.

To monitor and maintain quality standards of all investigations and staff within the Cardiac Department

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• BSc (Hons) Clinical Physiology with Cardiac Specialism
• UK Resus Council Immediate Life Support
• Demonstrated intention to achieve higher level qualification in a specific area of Cardiology

Desirable criteria

• IBHRE - Cardiac devices
• BSE certification
• UK Resus Council Advanced Life Support

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience working in a Cardiac Department.
• All non-invasive disciplines - supervising exercise stress tests, holter analysis.
• Cardiac catheter lab - angiography, PCI, IVUS, pressure wire studies, IABP.
• Cardiac rhythm management - Pacemaker implant and follow-up.

Desirable criteria

• Significant experience working as a band 6 Cardiac Physiologist
• Echocardiography.
• Complex pacing and ICD implant and follow up.

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Candidate Info Pack (PDF, 951.4KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)