Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiography)

Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiography)The BalfourBand 7 £48,788 - £56,747 plus Distant Islands Allowance pro rata per annumFull time 37 hours per weekPermanent

We’re looking to recruit an experienced BSE accredited Echocardiographer/ Cardiac Physiologist, primarily to provide an echo service but additional cardiac physiology skills would be welcomed- come and talk to us about your skills and interests! Candidates looking to work less than full time, flexibly or annualised hours would all be welcome to get in touch.

As a remote and rural hospital we need to be prepared to deal with almost any type of patient and, while some patients are transferred off-island, our aim is to ensure they receive their care as often as possible, in their home community.

The postholder would work closely with the Cardiology Nursing team, Cardiologist and NHS Grampian in delivering both inpatient and outpatient services.

Around 600 echos are performed in Orkney annually although this number is greatly supplemented by scans carried out by our visiting Cardiologist. NHSO has a GE E90 echo machine with Echopac reporting.

Currently there is a Cardiologist within the Balfour for 2 weeks out of 4. Our Cardiologist also co-ordinates a Cardiac CT Service, implants reveal monitors and delivers an elective DCCV service.

There would be an expectation that the new postholder would help train and develop staff within the Board. The development of the service and in-house training will allow more services to be delivered in different locations and will build resilience into the service.

NHS Orkney has one Heart Failure Specialist Nurse post. There is one Cardiology Specialist Nurse post which covers everything else with cardiology in its name! e.g. arrhythmia investigation, cardiac rehabilitation, exercise tolerance testing, enhanced vetting etc.

Pacemaker follow up is currently provided by Grampian Physiologists who provide a bi-monthly visiting clinic. Emergency device problems can sometimes be dealt with remotely via Teams with the Grampian Physiologist Team.

Find out more about the Clinical Physiology service at NHS Orkney on the following link –

https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/hoSzN4wxC2Agu

For more information about this position please contact Nick Crohn – Radiology, Audiology and Echocardiography Services Manager by email nick.crohn@nhs.scot or Amanda Manson – Cardiology Specialist Nurse by email amanda.manson@nhs.scot

This post is subject to a PVG Scheme Record check.

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