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Job summary

Main area
Perfusion
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week ((will consider part-time))
Job ref
196-LIS9525
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas' Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£61,927 - £68,676 p.a. inc. HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/05/2025 23:59

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Clinical Perfusion Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

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

Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Perfusion Specialist

Salary: Agenda for Change Band 8a plus HCA.

Guy's & St Thomas' Cardiovascular Department is one of the largest in the United Kingdom and within the directorate is the Department of Clinical Perfusion based at St Thomas' Hospital. 

The Perfusion department at Guy's and St Thomas' performs approximately 1200 adult and paediatric cardiac surgical bypass procedures per year whilst providing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation support for acute respiratory failure for both adults and paediatrics.  Other services supported include Trans Catheter Aortic Valve Surgery, Laser Lead Extractions and Intra Aortic Balloon Pump therapy.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the department to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Perfusion Specialist to join our highly specialised team. 

The successful candidate will have demonstrable post qualification perfusion experience, will be working as an autonomous practitioner, and join the team in its ongoing commitment to supporting cardiac surgery, a commissioned adult ECMO service and a paediatric ECMO service. 

Applicants to this post would ideally have some ECMO and/or paediatric experience, although training and mentoring in either/both will be given where required. 

Participation in the on-call rota is essential.

Working for our organisation

Applicants must hold the Society of Perfusionists accreditation certificate and be registered with the college of Clinical Perfusion Scientists.

For information and to arrange an informal visit, please contact either Geoff Fowler on 07747533814 or Nicola Agnew on 07801492990

Part-time and flexible working will be considered.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Provide significant, highly specialist, autonomously managed, direct care delivery. 
  • Provide highly specialist advice directly related to care delivery and technical aspects of treatment. 
  • Undertake significant out of hours commitment for autonomously managed, direct care delivery on a rota basis.  
  • Allocation of daily duties appropriate to skill mix in the absence of the Perfusion Manager or Deputy Manager. 
  • Responsible for the development and delivery of specialist training packages to trainees and members of the multidisciplinary team i.e. medical and nursing staff.

Please refer to the attached job description for full information.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Familiar with a wide range of routine and specialist Cardiopulmonary Bypass techniques

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Post qualification experience
  • Postgraduate knowledge
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of imaging systems
  • A knowledge of the NHS plan, relevant National Service Frameworks, national directives and clinical governance.

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Accreditation by The Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists of Great Britain and Ireland
Desirable criteria
  • Society of Clinical Perfusionists of great Britain and Ireland Advanced Certificate

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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
Geoff Fowler
Job title
Perfusion Services Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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