Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialised Physiologist
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About the Role
The Lancashire Cardiac Centre is a tertiary cardiac provider for the people of Lancashire & Cumbria. The centre has well-established invasive and non-invasive services covering a wide range of diagnostic and treatment including:
- Cardiac intervention
- Structural cardiac procedures including TAVI
- Device implantation including ICD’s and CRT’s & Extraction
- Electrophysiology & mapping procedures
We are looking to recruit experienced cardiac sonographers in the Cardiac Investigations Unit. The successful candidates will work as part of a highly skilled team of sonographers alongside the Imaging consultants to deliver the busy service.
The specialised team perform over 13,000 TTE’s 650 Dobutamine & Exercise Stress Echocardiography each year as well as the advanced techniques within Cardiac Ultrasound such as, Transesophageal echo (TOE), 3D TTE/TOE & Contrast Echocardiography. As part of our tertiary centre work, we also provide Paediatric and Adult Congenital Echocardiography in partnership with Liverpool and Alder Hey.
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Requirements
You should be BSE accredited, possess BSc in clinical physiology or equivalent and be on the AHCS register.
Responsibilities
As a Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist the post holder will be required to work as an autonomous, competent practitioner of echocardiography based at the Cardiac Investigations Unit and working across our community diagnostic centres.
Providing a highly specialised clinical and technical service in echocardiography that impacts directly upon the clinical management of the patient. This will be underpinned by highly developed specialist knowledge gained by postgraduate training and completion of a relevant qualifications.
About the Trust
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire. We have unspoilt coastline, attractive towns, quiet villages and beautiful countryside.
Motorway and rail links mean the rest of the North West is within easy reach – from Blackpool Victoria Hospital it’s an 18-mile drive to Preston, 58 miles to Manchester Airport and 64 miles to Lake Windermere.
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We provide health services across the Fylde coast, Lancashire and south Cumbria, area that is home to 1.6 million people. A range of hospital services is provided to the 352,000 people living on the Fylde coast and the estimated 18 million visitors who visit each year.
The Trust offers community health services to 445,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre and north Lancashire. We also provide specialist regional care for cardiac and haematology patients.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Daniel Crook
- Job title: Echocardiography Service Manager
- Email address: d.crook@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01253 957741
For further information or to arrange an informal visit please contact:
- The Echo Service Manager: Dan Crook (01253) 957741
- CIU Department Manager: Angelic Goode (01253) 957742
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