The Trainee Echocardiographer will be employed for a fixed term of 18 months during which time they will work through a programme of learning.

Main duties of the job

In conjunction with and supported by the Designated Training Officer, the Trainee Echocardiographer will be responsible for their own progression through the training programme, completing a mixture of work based competence and experience in NHS scientific departments, completing the learning outcomes as outlined in the Curriculum Library, undertaking the complementary academic Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography and preparing for and completing the BSE Transthoracic Accreditation process.

At all times the Trainee Echocardiographer is expected to work within standard operating policies and procedures of the host department and NHS organisation and adhere to high standards of professionalism, health and safety, risk reduction, confidentiality, patient care and dignity, and respect for equality and diversity as set out in the NHS Constitution.

The Trainee Echocardiographer will be employed by the host department for a fixed term of 18 months during which time they will work through a programme of learning.

This will be combined with an academic programme at Post Graduate level over the first year of the programme.

About us

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Integrity

Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds.This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The trainee will work closely with the training coordinator/officer and more senior members of staff to follow the curriculum for the Echocardiography Training Programme.

The trainee will work in specified areas of the department and be responsible to the Designated Training Coordinator/Officer for their own work and progression through the scheme.

All trainees will be expected to travel to national academic and other courses regularly throughout their training. In some cases this may involve overnight and/or residential stays. Trainees will undertake a Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography at a designated academic institution specific for the training pathway. Trainees will mainly be based in the host department, but may need to attend other local/regional/national scientific services, in order to complete the required pathway work based curricula, as deemed appropriate by the Designated Training Officer. Trainees will be a part of a national training programme and will be registered with the National School of Healthcare Science based in the West Midlands Multi-professional Workforce Deanery.

Liaises with other technical and scientific staff of department /section, and other Trainee Healthcare Scientists across a wide range of departments

Person Specification

Education, Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to BSC level or equivalent level of education, training or experience.
• 1st or 2:1 in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant subject (examples include Physiology, Pure or Applied Physics, Biology or Human Biology, or Sports Science (if significant scientific content)
• Equivalent experience and appropriate underpinning knowledge and skills in cardiology - as evidenced for example by appropriate voluntary registration with the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists or Academy for Healthcare Science

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both writing and speaking in English language
• Explain analytical, scientific and clinical aspect of the work to a variety of people including scientific colleagues, clinical professionals, service managers and patients and to listen to their needs.
• Make formal presentations to groups of colleagues.
• Good active listening skills to build rapport with the listener to encourage an open discussion.
• Self-aware and flexible enough to adopt a range of evaluative or empathising listening styles according to the needs of the listener and the situation.
• Ability to work autonomously in the planning and execution of their own work and under the guidance of their Departmental Supervisors.
• Flexibility to acquire the skills to organise, plan and monitor the workload of others.
• Ability to work under pressure (emotional resilience and ability to prioritise and plan work)
• Good personal organisational skills.
• Effective team worker, willing to adopt a role working in collaboration with others.
• Good understanding of ethics and professional practice, the NHS constitution and the importance of patient-centred care

Desirable

• Ability to work autonomously in the planning and execution of their own work and under the guidance of their Departmental Supervisors.
• Under guidance develops good interpretative skills in the formulation of advice to multi-disciplinary team members on diagnosis and appropriate treatment of patients.
• Ability to support patients (or their carers) including those with a range of acute or chronic clinical conditions and disabilities in a variety of healthcare settings.

Skills

Essential

• Has an understanding of the role of an Echocardiographer in healthcare and disease and its application in a healthcare setting.
• A committed, in depth interest in Echocardiography and its application to direct clinical care of patients in a clinical environment.
• Have an understanding of quality control and management assurance in a science or work based context
• Ability to analyse and assess scientific, technical and medical literature.
• Good IT skills and knowledge of common computing packages for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages and databases.
• Ability to analyse complex information.

Desirable

• Ability to support patients (or their carers) including those with a range of acute or chronic clinical conditions and disabilities in a variety of healthcare settings.
• Knowledge acquired through study and experience to formulate appropriate advice and judgements, including clinical judgements involving facts or situations that impact on patients.
• Ability to develop proficiency in the performance of routine and complex techniques currently in use where they are training (ability to follow Standard Operating Procedures accurately)
• Able to identify problems associated with scientific equipment, inappropriate testing, incompatible results and to investigate these, plan corrective action confirming appropriateness with senior colleagues and follow up.
• Ability to use, maintain and troubleshoot scientific equipment.

Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Atributes

Essential

• Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
• Reliable and flexible
• Ability to perform a wide range of duties according to the Job Description.
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the training role.

Desirable

• Highly developed co-ordination skills with good dexterity and hand-eye co-ordination and those skills required for the performance of fine analytical techniques.

Employer details

Employer name

Northampton General Hospital

Address

Northampton General Hospital

Billing road

Northampton

NN1 5BD

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