Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The post holder will:

• be expected to maintain a clinical workload by performing and reporting highly specialist and complex clinical cardiac investigations.
• be responsible for managing and the development of the Functional Assessment & Inherited Cardiac Conditions service within the cardiac department.
• be an integral part of education and training for physiologists and medical staff.

Communication

• Communicates independent interpretations of complex technical and physiological data to guide physicians throughout high-risk provocative procedures (e.g., during complex device implantation).
• Actively participates in multi-disciplinary clinical review meetings.
• Communicate with other departments involved in supporting the effective operation of the service.

Analytical Skills

• Exercise initiative and judgement in solving problems and making decisions that affect own areas of work recognising when there is a need to refer problems to Senior Management or Consultant staff.
• Independently obtains and analyses complex data, performs complex calculations, determines interpretation and independently compiles accurate written complex technical reports for case notes.

Patient Care

• To maintain a clinical workload by performing and reporting highly specialist and complex clinical cardiac investigations.

Policy/Service Development

• To act as the lead for Functional Assessment & Inherited Cardiac Conditions (ICC) within the echocardiography department and the development of a regional ICC service.
• Responsible for service development, ensuring that high quality patient centred services are based on the best available evidence and be a driving force in the development of a protocol driven service.
• To be aware of and implement the Trust and Cardiology guidelines with respect to Health and Safety

Financial and Physical Resources

• To actively develop the Inherited Cardiac Conditions service and explore other modes of income generation for projects which require cardiac diagnostic support.

Human Resources

• Provide leadership and development for all extended role practitioners in the clinical physiology department.
• Regularly supervises individuals working/observing in the clinical environment including visitors from other trusts and organisation.
• Work with external organisations (e.g., European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, British Society of Echocardiography and the Department of Health) to promote and develop the role of cardiac physiologists within the field of echocardiography.
• Be a mentor for individuals from a range of professional groups.
• Work in collaboration with the National School for Healthcare Science and the North-West Healthcare Science network to facilitate the effective implementation of Modernising Scientific Careers.
• Contribute to the strategy for meeting the training requirements of the paediatric echocardiography service for the Cardiac Physiologist, Medical and Nursing staff groups.
• To attend training courses to update one’s own technical, physiological and pathological knowledge of specialist cardiac procedures and to update one’s knowledge in respect of specialised clinical use of equipment.
• Ensure staff training is organised and delivered to satisfactory local strategic service developments and clinical standards as determined by Modernising Scientific Careers framework.
• Takes personal responsibility for continuing professional development to ensure skills remain optimal to the role and new elements can be added to the skills portfolio.