Highly Specialised Echocardiographer - Royal Brompton Hospital

Job overview

Are you looking for a change? We are offering an opportunity to join our team of highly specialised Echocardiographers based at the Royal Brompton Hospital.

Main duties of the job

To contribute positively towards the echocardiography service at the Royal Brompton Hospital. The main duties are outlined in the attached job description.

Working for our organisation

We can offer you a clean, calm and well-organised environment, with a fully integrated reporting system and modern equipment.

We pride ourselves in our regular commitment to ongoing education with Cardiologist-led weekly case review meetings, and monthly echo-specific education forums.

Need a hand with advanced imaging techniques? We offer support, training and assessment modules in strain, 3D & contrast and actively encourage the development of critical thinking skills.

We offer well-being support and have a dedicated echo management team who want you to be the best you can be, to ensure our patients receive the first-class service they deserve.

Royal Brompton Hospital ranked in the top 10 of Newsweek’s World’s Best Specialized Hospitals in 2021 with a proud and long-standing commitment to the investigation, treatment and research of heart and lung disease. As one of the largest echocardiography services in the UK, we offer the full complement of specialist echo services to our cardiac & respiratory teams at Royal Brompton Hospital and support cardio-oncology services for the Royal Marsden Hospitals.

We are looking for enthusiastic & dynamic Specialist Echocardiographers to join our team. This post offers the opportunity to work with international leaders in the field in a stimulating and collegiate environment across multiple sites.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The ideal candidate will have 3years post accreditation experience in echocardiography (Level 2 BSE or equivalent). A background in cardiac investigations is an advantage. The successful candidate will become a key contributor to both the daily operations and strategic direction of our service and will share our commitment to both continual learning and excellence.

Person specification

Qualifications

• BSc Clinical Physiology or equivalent
• Echocardiography accreditation (British Society of Echocardiography level 2 or equivalent) with documented up-to-date continuing professional development

• 3years post accreditation experience
• HCPC registered/eligible
• Immediate Life Support or above

Experience

• Contemporary experience in performing and reporting transthoracic echocardiography in adult patients
• Background experience in range of techniques involved in assessment and therapy provision for patients with cardiac disease
• Technical skills enabling measurement and analysis of physiological parameters, including 12 lead ECG & blood pressure
• Ability to interpret fundamental ECG abnormalities

• Competency in strain imaging
• Competency in 3D imaging
• Competency in the use of ultrasound enhancing agents
• Experience in complex pathologies in a cardiac surgery centre

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• High degree of dexterity, co-ordination and sensory skills for manipulation of echo probe involving long periods of concentration
• Good computer skills, able to perform basic troubleshooting steps in case of malfunction of image acquisition, transfer & reporting systems

• Experience in stress echo

Personal Qualities

• Commitment to excellence & continual service development
• Flexibility to work as a member of a team
• Self-motivating
• Ability to think clearly and act appropriately in emergency situations

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a multi-disciplinary environment