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You will have a senior role in the provision of a highly skilled, professional and efficient cardiac service to all departments within Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Stobhlll Hospitals and to externally sourced patients when required. As a Senior Cardiac physiologist who manages one of the cardiac services as part of a senior team and is also skilled in specialist areas of cardiology, you will regularly have to pnoritise and organise your workload and allocate and supervise, when required the work of other staff in order to ensure continuity of service and patient care. Depending on relevant experience, you will be involved with managing a service within the Cardiology Department as part of a senior team of physiologists. Direct reports – You will provide direction and guidance as well as clinical supervision and tutor more Junior and senior clinical physiologists. You will perform clinical Physiologist led Exercise Tolerance Tests with analysis of Electrocardiogram and Haemodynamic data as an Independent practitioner. You will be required to perform echocardiograms unsupervised. If untrained, training will be given. This has a high level of autonomy and requires highly developed skills i.e dexterity,co-ordination and sensory skills to enable the clinical Psychologist to obtain a serious of images, which form the basis for a report. You will be accountable for developing a clinical report as an independent practitioner. Co-ordinating Physiologist led device follow up clinics as the lead Physiologist Supervision and training of physiologists in this area. Analysis of patient monitoring systems. Perform Tilt Table Testing on patient with medical staff. You will be accountable for own professional actions and reports whilst working within Professional Codes of Practice/Guidelines, policies and procedures. You will work autonomously. You will be expected to supervise junior and senior staff. Essential requirements for the post are a Clinical Physiology Degree or equivalent (HBTEC/HNC &
Specialist Courses) and at least four years in service training having gained complete knowledge of all cardiac procedures, gained minimal ASCST accreditation and accepted onto voluntary register for RCCP. The shift pattern for this post is 8.00am – 4.00pm or 9.00am – 5.00pm.
Informal Contact: Elaine Walls, Cardiac Physiology Manager, Tel No: 0141 211 4125
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs .