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Job summary

Main area
Cardiovascular Care Services
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
328-CDC-6677631
Employer
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The James Cook University Hospital
Town
Middlesbrough
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/06/2025 23:59

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Echocardiographer

Band 7

Job overview

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and proficient individual who is trained within the field of Echocardiography and holds up to date BSE accredited in Adult TTE.

The successful candidate will be employed on at Band 7 and will be expected to complete internal departmental competencies.

This is an unrivalled opportunity to work at the leading edge of cardiac technology and patient care in a dynamic and innovative environment. Working with state-of-the-art echocardiographic equipment in a fully digital lab you will have the opportunity to work in all aspects of echocardiography, including 3D, in one of the North’s leading cardiac centres.

The department offers a range of imaging procedures/clinics such as Transthoracic, TOE, DSE, Dedicated Oncology Monitoring Clinic and CRT optimisation.

As a leading tertiary centre, we offer and encourage extended roles at present these are within Research and Audit. Echocardiographers are supported through the clinical skills assessment course for the Physiologist lead valve clinics, They provide image support within our well established Structural Heart disease program (TAVI and Paravalvular closure ). Along with Physiologist led TOE and Exercise Echo.

Main duties of the job

Due to the departments infrastructure if the successful candidate has relevant experience/competence in Cardiac Cath labs, PPCI, TAVI, CRM device implants these will be maintained and they will participate in the Cath lab on call service.

The Echocardiography Unit is a large busy department split across 2 sites, the James Cook University Hospital and the Friarage. In addition, we work at number of external community clinics.

Some of the duties will include:

  1. Perform echocardiograms on both inpatients and outpatients to a high standard, at all trust sites
  2. Provide clear and accurate reports on echocardiograms.
  3. Ensure that reports generated by non-specialist cardiac physiologists and cardiology registrars are comprehensive, clear and accurate.
  4. Play an active role in the supervision and training of medical and technical staff in all areas of echocardiography.
  5. To join with our imaging cardiologists and Operational lead in echography in developing high quality echocardiography across the trust.
  6. Extended role development – contrast and stress echocardiography, TOE,CRT, 3D, simple SCHD and specialist valve clinics, specialist cath lab support for TAVI and structural heart disease procedures with possible development into MRI, Physiology lead TOE and Paediatric clinics.
  7. To facilitate training and accreditation of technical and trainee medical staff to contribute significantly to regular echo review meetings

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff.  This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

•    Your Leadership Impact
•    Leading your Team to Success
•    Leading Into the Future 
•    Service Improvement for Beginners
•    Developing your Service Improvement Skills 
•    Lean Practitioner 

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

•    Explore leadership within the NHS
•    Promote Trust values and behaviours
•    Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills 
•    Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

 

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria
  • • BSc (Hons) in a science subject or equal
  • • BSE accreditation in adult echocardiography.
Desirable criteria
  • • Clinical/ Physical Skills
  • • Registration with the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists or other appropriate council

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Advanced specialist knowledge of all modalities of echocardiography.
  • • Sound decision making, analytical and judgement skills.
  • • Ability to foresee implications of decisions and their impact on others.
  • • Ability to work under pressure/meet tight deadlines whilst delivering high quality work.
Desirable criteria
  • • Participating in physiology lead valve clinics.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Excellent knowledge of technical cardiology.
  • • Skills necessary for performing dobutamine stress echocardiography.
  • • Excellent interpersonal skills

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • • Motivated
  • • Positive approach to customer care

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sam Middleton
Job title
Echo operational lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01642 854607
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