Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our Cardiac Physiology team at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a candidate who has had previous experience of working with patients in a healthcare environment with previous ECG recording experience who also has knowledge of ambulatory monitors.

Main duties of the job

We are a busy department providing a wide range of invasive and non-invasive diagnostic investigations including:

• ECG and ambulatory monitoring
• Exercise tolerance tests
• Echocardiography (including TTE, TOE and bubble echo)
• Pacing, ILR and complex device follow up)
• Cath lab services (including angiograms and pacing and ILR implants)

As a band 3 cardiographer you will be a senior member of the ECG team and will be responsible for performing ECGs, fitting ambulatory monitors and assistance in exercise tolerance tests. The post holder will ensure that all inpatient diagnostic requests are planned and prioritised within the day to day running of the department. Training of junior members of the team is also required. There will also be a level of administration duties involved in the role, including ordering of stock.

To be successful in this post you will be capable of providing an excellent level of professionalism, be a team player and possess good communication and organisational skills.

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