Job summary
An Exciting opportunity's have arisen for a qualified Echocardiographer or Highly Specialist Clinical Physiologist specialised in Echocardiography.

You will be based on the Aintree Hospital site but will provide services to Broadgreen and Royal Hospitals. Given the nature of the department a flexible working pattern.

Applicants must be BSE accredited, have completed either a BSc in Healthcare Science or PGCert in Echocardiography. Applicants must have RCCP or be working towards RCCP registration [If an ETP candidate]

Main duties of the job
We are busy and dynamic department providing Cardiology services to Liverpool and the surrounding regions.

• To provide Echocardiography to inpatients and outpatients
• To perform Echocardiography independent to BSE dataset guidelines
• To report and analyse Echo results in line with BSE guidance
• To successfully line manage staff within your team with the assistance of the department manager
• To perform advanced techniques such as TOE, Exercise/ Dobutamine Echo, Bubble studies, Contrast studies and more.

About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Job responsibilities

• Performs echocardiograms autonomously on outpatient and inpatients to a high standard.
• Reports complex clinical data obtained by echocardiography in a timely manner and produces an accurate report to BSE standards.
• Practises the standards as outlined by the British society of echocardiography in both image acquisition and reporting
• Highlights abnormalities to the referring medic/ clinical team.
• Organise work at the start of every session by assessing mode of patient transport and any infection control precautions
• Act to the level of professional standards as outlined by the RCCP
• Aims to complete RCCP accreditation as soon as possible.
• In order to obtain RCCP accreditation is willing to undertake training in other areas of clinical physiology as required.
• Becomes compliant in advanced echocardiographic techniques including TOE, Bubble, Contrast and stress echocardiography
• Is ILS trained
• Liaise with Lead Clinical Physiologist to maintain appropriate level of resources.
• Responsible for the safe use of all the equipment within the department and specific areas.
• Recognise equipment faults and ensure details are documented and appropriate steps taken for their correction.
• Responsible for maintaining own Continuing Professional and Personal development.
• Ensure clean and tidy procedure environments are maintained.
• Ensure up to date information bases for patient and other activities are maintained.
• Self-motivation to ensure completion of individual and overall workloads.
• Contribute to meetings with other staff relating to changes within the working area.
• Assist with maintenance of local risk management policies.
• Understands and uses Cardiac/Respiratory Information systems and their application within Cardiac/Respiratory Physiology.
• Engage in audit, research and development relevant to the Cardio respiratory Department.
• Comply with Trust and local policies.
• To be responsible for the care of patient when performing examination.
• The post-holder will liaise with physiology, medical, technical, nursing, portering, domestic, clerical, administrative and other staff as necessary within this Trust.
• The post involves direct contact with patients, relatives, and carers.
• Communication with manufacturers is also necessary.
• A responsible, professional/relationship must be maintained at all times

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Undergraduate honours degree [1st or 2.1 class] in cardiac physiology or a relevant scientific subject
• PG cert in Echocardiography or Clinical Physiology Degree
• BSE accreditation
• Will obtain RCCP accreditation as soon as possible

Desirable

• RCCP accreditation
• ILS

Experience
Essential

• Able to work autonomously performing and reporting echocardiograms
• Has an understanding of the role of an Echocardiographer in healthcare and disease and its application in a healthcare setting.

Desirable

• Has experience in advanced echo techniques I.e TOE, Stress etc

Knowledge
Essential

• Ability to work autonomously in the planning and execution of their own work and under the guidance of their Departmental Supervisors.
• Knowledge acquired through study and experience to formulate appropriate advice and judgements, including clinical judgements involving facts or situations that impact on patients.
• Good understanding of ethics and professional practice, the NHS constitution and the importance of patient-centred care.

Skills
Essential

• Highly developed co-ordination skills with good dexterity and hand-eye co-ordination and those skills required for the performance of fine analytical techniques.
• Good IT skills and knowledge of common computing packages for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages and databases.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both writing and speaking in English language
• Effective team worker
• Good active listening skills to build rapport with the listener to encourage an open discussion.

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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).