Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join Barts Health NHS Trust and work within a modern Community Diagnostic Centre that delivers high-quality cardiovascular diagnostics and outpatient services closer to patients' homes.
The role is focused on echocardiography and community cardiology, providing extensive exposure to the assessment and management of patients with suspected or established cardiovascular disease.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be based predominantly within the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at Mile End Hospital, providing high-quality echocardiography and specialist cardiology services to support the diagnosis, assessment and management of patients with suspected or established cardiovascular disease.
- Perform and report transthoracic echocardiograms (TTE) to a high standard, undertaking comprehensive assessment of cardiac structure and function in accordance with departmental and national guidelines.
- Assess patients referred to community cardiology services with symptoms of undifferentiated breathlessness, integrating clinical findings with echocardiographic and other diagnostic investigations to support diagnosis and management planning.
- Participate in community-based murmur clinics, evaluating patients with suspected valvular heart disease and contributing to appropriate investigation, diagnosis and follow-up pathways.
- Support valve disease assessment services, including the surveillance and longitudinal follow-up of patients with known valvular heart disease, ensuring timely referral for specialist review where indicated.
Benefits
- Salary: £51,931 to £69,976 a year
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Essential:
- The applicant must have achieved a primary medical qualification as recognised by the General Medical Council (GMC)
- Current Full GMC registration with a license to practice
- MRCP UK (or Equivalent)
- Desirable:
- Previous experience in advanced cardiac imaging
- Certification/accreditation in cardiac imaging (any modality)/inherited cardiac disease/cardio oncology /heart failure
Experience
- Essential:
- Experience in general cardiology at ST3+ level (e.g. independent in transthoracic echocardiography, comfortable in managing acutely unwell cardiology patients on the wards)
Knowledge
- Essential:
- The applicant must be familiar with and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the major principles of the GMC's Good Medical Practice (2006) including: Good clinical care, Maintaining good medical practice, Teaching and training, appraising and assessing, Relationships with patients, Working with colleagues, Probity and Health
- Desirable:
- Current ALS certification
Skills
- Essential:
- The applicant must demonstrate: an understanding of the importance of the patient as the central focus of care, the ability to prioritise tasks and information appropriately, an understanding of the importance of working effectively with others, the ability to communicate effectively with both colleagues and patients, initiative and the ability to deal effectively with pressure and/or challenge, an understanding of the principles of equality and diversity