Job summary
Employer heading
Trainee Echocardiographer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job overview
**Trainee Echocardiographer**
Main duties of the job
The trainee will undertake the full training programme in order to progress through the academic and practical elements of the training scheme. In so doing they will learn how to perform and interpret clinical and specialist scientific processes underpinned by theoretical and applied knowledge and practical experience and will learn how to:
- Perform and interpret routine cardiac investigations.
- Perform specialised diagnostics investigations.
- Carry out complex scientific and clinical roles, including those working directly with patients.
- Analyse and interpret and data compare investigative and clinical options.
- Make judgements, including clinical and differential judgements, involving complicated facts or situations that impact on patients.
- Initiate and undertake innovation, improvement and R&D and be involved in the education of healthcare science trainees and other learners in the workplace.
- Carry out audit to continuously improve patient care and service needs.
- Participate in the training and development of both external university students and junior team members.
- Communicate and interact effectively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure a positive patient experience.
- Assist the Principal Cardiac Physiologist and other senior members of the team in the day to day organisation and delivery of the cardiothoracic diagnostic service
Working for our organisation
At the Royal Berkshire Hospital we have a rich history for providing healthcare to the people of Reading, West Berkshire and South Oxfordshire stretching back over 180 years. We are always looking ahead to the challenges of the future and the health and wellbeing of the people we use serve.
The Trust provides services over five hospital sites and delivers services over a wide range of specialities. We are one of the country's largest general hospital foundation trusts - serving a population of more than 500,000 people - and the primary provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire. Our reputation for delivering high quality, well-led services in a hospital is rated as "GOOD" by the CQC.
Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities
Actively participate in a broad range of service provision following a period of training and assessment. Maintain discipline and standards of technical competency in the provision of invasive and non-invasive investigative services within the department, in accordance to national and local guideline. Candidate will be completing a preceptorship year and will complete a competency logbook alongside their training.
Uphold trust care values- located on trust intranet.
Compliant with all mandatory training and appraisal (complete during time study).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st or 2:1 in BSc Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific subject ( examples including Physiology, Pure or Applied Physics, Biology or Human Biology, or Sports Science
Desirable criteria
- Skills in Cardiology with evidence by relevant voluntary registration (AHCS/RCCP)
Interspersonel skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS work experience
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Usha Mistry
- Job title
- Cardiac Physiology Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0118 3225541
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