Job overview

The cardio-respiratory department offers a full range of invasive and non-invasive tests, including ECG, ambulatory monitoring, exercise testing, pacemaker implant and follow up (brady and tachy devices), diagnostic angiography, and percutaneous coronary intervention and echocardiography (including stress and transoesophageal echocardiography).

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 7 cardiac physiologist specialising in echocardiography. The candidate should have BSE accreditation and experience performing transthoracic echocardiography, stress echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography. The department is committed to continuing professional development, with many staff undertaking post graduate and professional qualifications. 

Main duties of the job

The candidate will be expected to perform TTE unassisted for outpatients and inpatients. They should be able to work alongside our consultants to support the stress echocardiography service. It is also desirable for them to want to support development of a physiologist led service. They should be able to support our consultants with TOE. 

Working for our organisation

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated in a fantastic part of the country that is home to two national parks, a beautiful coastline, and the city of York – consistently voted one of the best places to live in the UK. We provide a comprehensive range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare services for approximately 800,000 people living in and around York, North Yorkshire, North East Yorkshire and Ryedale – an area covering 3,400 square miles.

Our annual turnover is approaching £0.5bn. We manage eight hospital sites and have a workforce of around 10,000 staff working across our hospitals and in the community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description .

Working for the Trust

Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind ; we are open ; and we pursue excellence .

Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks – including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks – to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact: .

As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

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We are holders of the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, which is helping actively promote SaBRE – Supporting Britains Reservists and Employers. This means that we have made a statement of intent to support all Defence personnel, including with applications for employment.

Covid-19 Vaccinations

Our Trust continues to strongly encourage our staff to be vaccinated against Covid -19. This remains our best defence to protect our patients, ourselves and everyone else.

DBS Checks

Under our criminal records check policy, we will re-claim the cost of DBS checks (where required for a role) on the commencement of your employment. Further details will be set out with your offer of employment. Volunteers and Bank roles are exempted from charges.

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) offers a confidential checking service for transgender applicants in accordance with the Gender Recognition Act 2004. This is known as the sensitive applications route, and is available for all levels of DBS check – basic, standard and enhanced.

The sensitive applications route gives transgender applicants the choice not to have any gender or name information disclosed on their DBS certificate that could reveal their previous identity. To contact the sensitive applications team, please telephone 0300 106 1452 or email . 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • BSc in Clinical Physiology or equivalent formal specialist training, plus knowledge of specialist procedures acquired through specialist courses or training/experience to advance level.
  • BSE TTE adult accreditation (holds or has previously held with CPD)

    • Experience

    Essential criteria

  • Appropriate post qualification experience and familiarity with the range of basic and advanced Cardiac and Respiratory investigations.

    • Desirable criteria

  • Supervisory experience.
  • Managerial experience.

    • Employer certification / accreditation badges

    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.

    Documents to download

    Further details / informal visits contact

    NameChloe HowardJob titleHead of CardiorespiratoryEmail addressTelephone number01904725732