Job overview

We are looking to appoint an experienced and passionate echocardiographer to support the service leads. The role will be 100% based in echocardiography and will be a mix of practical scanning of both inpatients and outpatients; supporting trainee echocardiographers and quality assurance activities including audits and service evaluation working across all trust sites.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be expected to engage in all areas of echocardiography In addition, supporting the service lead to ensure compliance with departmental accreditation quality assurance programme is fundamental by engaging in activities to comply with the echo quality framework.

The department is passionate about providing the best possible service for our patients by advocating for high quality, evidence based practice. The team are consistently commended for the quality training provided to physiologists and medics and we would like to continue to develop our training offering.

Working for our organisation

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff.  We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system.  Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.