Interviews to be held 03/04/2025
An opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist to join our cardio-respiratory team at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
We are an enthusiastic, friendly, motivated team who put the care of patients first. The device team work in brady implant and follow up, complex device follow up and physiologist-led ILR implant service. The Cardiology Department also provides a cardiac ultrasound service (TTE, contrast, stress and TOE), angiography, electrocardiography including ambulatory and exercise testing, spirometry, full lung function testing and CPEX.
We are a forward thinking department that strives for excellence in all that we do. We provide a lot of training opportunities for staff and regularly host 6 university PTP students annually.
The department is seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated, suitably qualified physiologist to join our cardiac devices team.
You main duties include:
Providing independent specialist support to the Cardiac Device Service in the implantation and follow-up of the full range of implantable cardiac devices (pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy devices and implantable loop recorders.
Maintaining a high standard of cardiac device competency and patient care at all times.
Maintaining post graduate level accreditation in cardiac rhythm management, such as British Heart Rhythm Society (BHRS) accreditation.
Explaining procedures and possible outcomes with patients prior to implantation and follow-up, with a degree of counselling regarding CIED benefits and constraints.
Developing any specialised areas of interest in cardiac devices.
Participating in clinical audit and research.
To provide multi disciplinary training across professional boundaries to a range of staff including physiologists, nurses, medical staff, and others.
Providing mentoring/WBA for staff and students.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.