Cardiac Associate Practitioner

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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

We are looking to recruit an Associate Practitioner to work along side the Cardiac and Respiratory Physiologists, Associate Practitioners and Assistant Practitioners who form part of the Physiological Sciences Team at George Eliot Hospital. The hours for the post will be 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

• Successful candidates will have worked in a healthcare environment in a patient facing role. Experience of performing ECGs would also be an advantage, but full training will be delivered. If you are articulate and personable with the motivation to deliver high quality diagnostic services then this may be the job for you.
• This role includes the delivery of ECGs and ambulatory patient monitoring to both inpatients and outpatients at George Eliot Hospital (GEH). The post holder will also work within the, newly opened, North Warwickshire Community Diagnostic Centre based on the GEH site.

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to \’excel at patient care\’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Job responsibilities

Purpose

The primary duties of the post are the recording of electrocardiograms (ECGs) and issue and receipt of ambulatory monitors monitors.

Tests are performed autonomously on adults and paediatrics attending the department, on the wards and A&E. These tests aid diagnosis and treatment of conditions and are undertaken routinely and in emergency situations with frequent exposure to body fluids.

Duties also include the support to Clinical Physiologists by the preparation of patients prior to diagnostic tests.

Roles and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• To accurately record routine and emergency resting 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECG) and occasional 15-lead ECGs, on inpatients and outpatients to aid diagnosis and treatment.
• To mount and document these recordings for filing in patients notes and as a record that the testhas been performed.
• To fit and remove 24 hour cardiac and blood pressure monitors.
• To issue long term event monitors.
• To communicate with medical/nursing staff to provide effective service for patient care.
• To identify life threatening abnormal results and to manage clinical risk by alerting medical/nursing staff of any patients requiring immediate or urgent attention.
• To assess patients physical and mental abilities to perform and follow test procedures, and to use tact and persuasive skills to achieve optimum diagnostic results whilst maintaining patient dignity.
• To use a range of verbal and non verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating.
• To work as part of a team in an emergency situation, performing Basic Life Support when necessary.
• To assist in ensuring that ECG machines in the department and on the wards are kept in a safe and clean condition and to take appropriate action on malfunctioning/unsafe equipment.
• To maintain levels of consumable stock on ECG machines to allow usage at all times.
• To dispose of hazardous consumables in correct manner to ensure compliance with Health and Safety regulations.
• To have the knowledge and skills in the use and application of relevant equipment and to be responsible for your own safe and competent use of that equipment.
• To follow department and Trust protocols in the decontamination of returned equipment to ensure compliance with Health and Safety guidelines and to update records for audit purposes.
• To participate in staff appraisal scheme and be responsible for complying with your agreed personal development program to meet set knowledge and competencies.
• To attend and participate in in-service training programmes, individual training sessions and external courses as expected/identified at appraisal.
• To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and risk management and to apply to the work situation.
• To undertake simple clerical duties where necessary.

Relationships

Internal:

Department colleagues

Patients and relatives

Nursing/medical staff

External:

Special requirements

• The post holder should be of sufficient stamina and health to be capable of long periods of walking and bending, moving, handling and positioning of patients and equipment. Equipment may need to be manoeuvred into confined spaces, such as around patients beds, and when there are obstacles such as drips, ventilators, monitors and catheter.
• The post holder should be capable of dealing with distressing and emotional incidents. This is usually dealing with patients and relatives who may have received distressing news from medical staff and need emotional support and further explanation, responding to medical emergencies or carrying out investigations on the terminally ill.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working with the public within health care environment
• Experience of recording ECGs in a health care environment
• Knowledge of investigations other cardiac investigations performed

Qualification and Professional Training

• Good standard of general education, English & Maths GCSE or equivalent.
• Commitment to undertake and complete the professional bodies certificates of competence required for the post.
• To hold a recognised qualification in ECG recording

Skills and Abilities

• To be able to push a wheelchair, manoeuvre and assist patients to transfer to and from examining couch. Manoeuvre ECG machine.
• To be able to assist patients to dress and undress.
• To have the ability to walk up to 4 km per shift between wards and departments to record ECGs

Personal Qualities

• Good communication skills (especially verbal)
• Ability to form positive working relationships
• Ability to remain calm under a range of circumstances
• To be able to prioritise and manage your own work
• To be able to appropriately manage patients and relatives/visitors who may be anxious or aggressive when attending the department or on the wards
• To be able to deal with exposure to distressing circumstances, at the death of a patient or when attending patient resuscitation.

Trust Values

• Effective Open Communication
• Excellence and Safety in all that we do
• Challenge but Support
• Expect Respect and Dignity
• Local Healthcare that Inspires Confidence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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