Job vacancy: Cardiographer, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Lewisham

Job summary

Main area: Administration
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Days/Hours can be discussed - Weekdays between 08:30 - 16:30)
Job ref: 197-AJ6811

Employer: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: University Hospital London
Town: Lewisham
Salary: £24,625 - £25,674 per annum plus HCA pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/05/2025 23:59

Cardiographer

NHS AfC: Band 3

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

To record 12 lead ECGs on a daily basis for O/A GP patients, inherited cardiac patients, heart failure patients, inpatients, paediatrics and neonatal, as well as psychiatric patients.
To be able to interpret ECG, particularly conditions such as MI, AF and SVT for GP direct access service.
To assist Exercise treadmill studies, admin and fitting electrodes (ILS skills required)
To confer/alert with clinical persons in regard to test results.
To be responsible for equipment maintenance and stock maintenance
To accurately prepare and fit and download 24-hour ambulatory monitors
To accurately fit and download 24 BP ambulatory monitor.
To instruct patients in the use of Cardio memo.
To be responsible for patient’s consent and this includes manual handling.
To assist patient care in the department, (which may involve helping patients with personal care)
To ensure patient confidentiality is observed at all times and observe the requirements of the data protection act and freedom of information act.
To be able to provide flexible working hours.
To observe all local rules and the Trust’s employment policies and procedures.
To report equipment failures immediately.
To assess and adapt technique according to patients’ condition e.g. portable, patient’s ability to co-operate.

Training

To complete ECG interpretation training, and maintain competency
To attend compulsory staff training courses
To provide training and supervision to students, nurses in recording 12 lead ECGs.
To provide assistance and be involved in departmental projects and audits
To be actively involved in departmental quality groups and pro-active in the sharing of good practice.
To take every opportunity to gain knowledge to achieve competency in an area of speciality within the Cardiology department.

Communication

To instruct and inform patients, carers sensitively, communicating with other health professionals of cardiology procedures for patients’ conditions.
To inform and promote guidelines and departmental policies to other healthcare professionals
To obtain informed consent from patients prior to undertaking procedures as appropriate to individual circumstances
To ensure accurate recording on the Radiology Information System (RIS) patient information and examination details.
To promote good relations with other directorates and hospitals

Personal Development

The opportunity to obtain a certificate of ECG for extended knowledge.

This job description is not exhaustive and may be subject to change in accordance with organisation and service developments, but any such changes will be fully discussed with the post holder.

To manage own work, staff and patient care and develop autonomous skills, liaising with clinicians and directorate managers if required.
To attend any relevant study days, in-house lectures, training afternoons and quality group meetings.
To participate in departmental audit.
To offer advice and guidance to patients, carers and other health professionals on cardiology procedures of patient’s conditions.
To inform and promote guidelines and departmental policies to other healthcare professionals
To obtain informed consent from patients prior to undertaking procedures as appropriate to individual circumstances
To ensure accurate recording on Current EPR systems and examination details.
To promote good relations with other directorates and hospitals
To provide independent ECG
To successfully achieve and uphold up to date certificate for ECG skills and competencies, maintaining numbers as part of quality controls

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

Good level of written and verbal communication

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

The ability to work as a team member.
The ability to be flexible in their working days/hours

Experience

Essential criteria

Previous experience working in Hospital environment
Previous use of similar patient care information system.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

A keen interest in learning all aspects of electrocardiology

Other

Essential criteria

A calm reassuring manner with the ability to work well under stress.

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.