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Job summary

Main area
Congenital Heart Disease (Paediatric)
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-LIS9530
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Evelina London Children's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£35,964 - £43,780 per annum incl of H.C.A
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/05/2025 23:59
Interview date
02/06/2025

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Junior Cardiac Physiologists

NHS AfC: Band 5

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

As a Junior Cardiac Physiologist you will be required to work as a competent practitioner within the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Duties will include both invasive and non-invasive cardiac investigations, providing adequate technical cover during the department’s normal working hours. Cardiac Physiologists with a background in adult cardiology will be supported to undergo paediatric cardiology training.

Main duties of the job

 - To provide support to the cardiac OPD (paediatrics) by performing cardiological testing: ECG, Holter monitor analysis, to assist with the ETT and CPET service on inpatients and outpatients

 - To work with the bookings team to ensure appointments are booked appropriately

 - House-keeping tasks - such as stock taking.

 - To gain experience in the congenital cardiac catheter laboratory

Working for our organisation

The Evelina London is one of the leading children’s hospitals in the UK and a premier paediatric cardiac centre.

The Department of Congenital Heart Disease, sits within the Surgery, PICU and Theatres directorate and our cardiac program manages the full spectrum of congenital heart problems on one site, providing continuous care from the fetus (Fetal Cardiology Unit, Evelina), through childhood (Paediatric Cardiology, Evelina) into adult life (Adult Congenital Heart Disease – ACHD at St. Thomas’ Hospital). 

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is now the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.

Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained the Evelina London Hospital a reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.

We are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Principle Responsibilities and duties:

To be technically proficient as a competent practitioner for both paediatric and young adult patients with departmental support:

  • Performing and interpreting ECGs during outpatient clinics and for in-patients.
  • Application of ambulatory ECG, blood pressure and event monitors.
  • Use a specialist range of ECG interpretation skills to analyse tapes and event recordings and provide reports. Use judgement to seek further specialist opinions where appropriate.
  • Assist the Senior Cardiac Physiologist during treadmill exercise tests and cardiopulmonary exercise tests, with monitoring ECG, BP and O2 during the test. In both physiologist led and doctor supervised settings.
  • Be responsible for preparing and operating the crash trolley and cardiac defibrillator during ETT and CPET for cardioversion and emergency life support.
  • Take responsibility for maintaining stock levels of consumables
  • Receive exposure in the paediatric cardiac catheter lab and in the MRI catheter lab, with supervised reporting to support the clinical team and to provide a good level of service to other specialties
  • Ensure awareness of local policies and procedures and that staff are working within them – (handling and lifting, blood spillage etc).
  • Raise the physiologist profile by promoting good practice initiatives within the Trust.
  • Completion of BSc (Hons) Clinical Physiology Degree or equivalent.
  • Complete PTP logbook if not done so already or demonstrate equivalence. To be trained using the predominant patient information system Epic.
  • To liaise with administration staff when booking in patient tests to ensure efficient work flow
  • To undertake additional staff development and training courses agreed with the line Manager.
  • Participate in departmental ECG teaching sessions and research projects as appropriate
  • Annual PILS Training.

Person specification

Qualification and Training

Essential criteria
  • BSc (Hons) in Cardiac Physiology or equivalent
  • PTP qualified or working towards
Desirable criteria
  • Training in paediatrics and CHD

Minimum experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of working as a cardiac physiologist/ trainee cardiac physiologist
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of experience in congenital cardiology

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work as a competent practitioner within cardiac physiology
  • Competent in performing ECG
  • Familiarity with cardiac physiology tests - supervised or aided
  • Confident with blood pressure monitoring at rest and exercise
  • Independence in ECG analysis - eg 24hour tapes
Desirable criteria
  • Exposure to the Catheter Lab
  • Exposure to paediatrics

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Laura O'Byrne
Job title
Senior Chief Cardiac Physiologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02071889225
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