Training Lead in Echocardiography / Network Practice Educator (NHS AfC: Band 8a) - Echocardiogr[...]

Training Lead in Echocardiography / Network Practice Educator

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area: Echocardiography
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: 12 months (Fixed Term for 12 months, potential for extension)
Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 196-LIS9244

Employer: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Town: LONDON
Salary: £61,927 – £68,676 p.a. inc HCA + RRP – £5275 subject to review (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/02/2025 23:59

Job overview

This position is for a senior healthcare scientist specialising in the training of echocardiography. The role will develop, implement, deliver and monitor a training strategy in echocardiography including, but not limited to, trainees undertaking the Scientist Training Programme (STP), Echocardiography Training Programme (ETP) and medical trainees (Resident Doctors).

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide echo training in a range of sites across the South London Network with responsibility for healthcare Scientists undertaking STP / ETP as well as other healthcare professionals. The position would suit an echocardiographer with extensive experience of training in transthoracic echocardiography. The successful candidate must hold British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) adult accreditation (or an equivalent qualification in echocardiography) and possess broad specialist skills in echocardiography. A postgraduate qualification in education and / or certification as a BSE assessor would be an advantage.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Roles

Professional

The post holder will be required to keep their professional, specialist scientific and clinical knowledge and skills up to date and to engage in and promote evidence-based practice within their field. They will be fully aware of, and work within, their professional scope of practice and within the standards of conduct, performance and ethics for their professional and regulatory bodies. The post holder will lead audit and practice reviews within their area of expertise. They will be expected to act as a role model and mentor to trainees and to junior colleagues.

Scientific

The post holder will be responsible for the evaluation and introduction of specialist scientific and technical knowledge and equipment within the echocardiography and training service across South London. They will provide scientific expertise to other health professionals including its analysis and interpretation within the clinical decision-making process. They will provide complex scientific information in an accessible manner to non-experts. They will be responsible for the monitoring and assurance of the scientific quality of their area and will develop and implement processes to demonstrate and maintain its quality. The post holder will require IT knowledge and skills commensurate with their role as a healthcare scientist specialist within their field.

Clinical

Their clinical knowledge and skills must be sufficiently advanced to underpin their role as a healthcare scientist specialist and should be equivalent to master’s level plus further specialist training. The post holder will perform echocardiography at specialist scientist (expert) level while complying with local and national standards. The scientist will be able to request other diagnostic tests including other imaging modalities and pathology services.

The post holder will need to be able to deliver complex information, which may be of a distressing nature, to patients and their families and to offer advice within their specialist scope of practice.

The post holder will require an understanding of biohazards and hazardous agents that are staff/patients/carers are exposed within cardiac science including contact with bodily fluids and radiation.

Leadership

The post holder will be scientifically responsible for training in echocardiography including when its provision is delegated to other healthcare professions. They will be responsible for the audit, review and measures required to ensure that the high-quality training is maintained. They will develop a strategy for the delivery of echocardiography training across South London.

Person specification

Qualifications

• BSc in cardiac physiology or relevant alternative
• BSE / EACVI transthoracic accreditation or equivalent
• Initiated the process of professional registration with HCPC as a Clinical Scientist or equivalent
• Higher training qualification (ie Cert Ed, FAETC)
• Clinical Assessment for Healthcare Scientists MSc module or equivalent
• Professional registration with HCPC as a Clinical Scientist

Experience

• Experience of delivering education and training within cardiac science to own and other professional groups
• Extensive practical experience in all areas of transthoracic echocardiography at a level of independent practice including investigation, interpretation, reporting and recommending alternative investigations.
• Experience in the supervision or line management of staff
• Experience in budget and wider management issues.
• Practical experience in specialist echocardiography (e.g. stress, bubbles, TOE or ACHD)

Skills

• Broad knowledge of echocardiography, including practice with a wide array of complex technical equipment.
• Able to prioritise and manage own work and those of the team / trainees
• Able to communicate highly complex scientific information across professional boundaries and to patients including where there is a difference of opinion and evidence base
• Able to perform a clinical examination of the cardiovascular system Able to take an advanced history

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