Chief Cardiac Physiologist - Cardiac Rhythm Management

Stevenage, East of England, United Kingdom East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Chief Cardiac Physiologist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients

Our Cardiac Physiology team at Lister Hospital is committed to delivering high-quality diagnostic testing with the utmost patient care. We are a close-knit team, comprising four accredited physiologists and seven more working towards accreditation, including apprentices, associates, and senior physiologists. We cover all aspects of invasive cardiology including conduction pacing and Bi-Ventricular pacing.

As Chief Cardiac Physiologist, you will play a crucial role in both supporting the development of our team and enhancing our services. Every day brings new challenges, and you will be responsible for mentoring and guiding your colleagues while ensuring our services evolve to meet the highest standards of care.

A Recruitment and Retention package of 12.5% is offered for this position. Additional welcome packages, including relocation may be available subject to eligibility

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing and supporting a busy pacing clinic, managing approximately 300 face-to-face appointments and 1,000 remote follow-ups each month for loops, brady, and complex devices.
• Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team to perform 700 PCI procedures and 250 Primary PCI procedures annually.
• Supporting the implantation of around 300 devices each year.

Our Commitment to You:

• We prioritize professional development, with opportunities to attend conferences and regular in-house training.
• You will be part of a supportive environment where your contributions will directly influence the quality of care we provide.

Staff Testimonial:

• Working as a cardiac physiologist at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage is both professionally rewarding and personally fulfilling. The advanced cardiac care services we provide, offer a dynamic and challenging environment that fosters continuous learning and skill enhancement. The team is exceptionally skilled and dedicated, striving for excellence in patient care. One of the most remarkable aspects of working here is the close camaraderie among colleagues. We all get along really well and being a small team gives you this strong sense of familial environment which creates a positive and collaborative atmosphere and mutual support, which is essential for delivering high-quality care in high-pressure situation.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria

• BSc Clinical Physiology or Health Professions Council registration or recognised precursor
• Postgraduate profession related qualification, eg. IHBRE or HRUK/BSE
• Substantial post qualification experience within cardiology
• Member of Heart Rhythm Society UK/BSE
• RCCP registered ILS

Desirable criteria

• Accredited Member of the Society of Cardiological Science and Technology or equivalent
• Management Diploma
• MSc Cardiology or equivalent experience
• Immediate Life Support

Previous Experience

Essential criteria

• Excellent organisation and time management skills, able to deliver objectives within an agreed time frame
• Able to apply a fair, consistent and objective approach
• Proactive approach to quality control and making improvements in efficiency and effectiveness of service

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of management in relation to finance and management

Skills

Essential criteria

• Strong leadership and team building skills
• Able to relate and communicate with staff at all levels and from different professions
• Ability to overcome language barriers
• Experience of and demonstrable skills in the first line management
• Evidence of good communication skills. Good written and spoken communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Extensive post graduate experience in technical cardiology
• Competent to perform a range of highly specialised invasive procedures
• Competent to perform complex device implant and device followup
• Experience and competence maintained in all routine noninvasive procedures e.g. exercise tolerance testing,and ECG rhythm analysis.
• Experience of day to day organisation/ management
• Understanding of issues pertinent to education of technical cardiology and fully conversant with current curricula
• Teaching &