Chief Cardiac Physiologist Cardiac rhythm management

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites. Our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building, newly relocated and opened on the hospital site. We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

At Alder Hey, we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

We are currently seeking forward-thinking, dynamic, and motivated individuals to work at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. This post involves some combination of invasive procedures, cardiac rhythm management including EP procedures and devices, as well as analysing cardiac monitors, exercise testing and ECG. This role is ideally for a Physiologist with an interest in cardiac device management with the view to be trained into EP procedures and a passion for arrhythmia management on the whole.

Main duties of the job include:

• To bring advanced clinical arrhythmia skills to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital with a focus on cardiac devices and electrophysiology.
• Contributions can still be made in other service areas as skills and needs dictate.
• Applicants should be competent in all non-invasive cardiac procedures.
• You will be expected to demonstrate maturity and experience consistent with this grade to contribute fully to the improvement and advancement of the service.

As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state-of-the-art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities include:

• To become part of the EP team at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Person specification:

• Prior band 6 experience
• BHRS/IBHRE Pacing or EP
• IBHRE/BHRS EP exam

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.