NHS
Trainee Echocardiographer
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Job Description
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- To act as a Trainee Echocardiographer performing cardiac echocardiography based diagnostic testing.
- To work towards becoming a BSE accredited Echocardiographer and complete a PGCert in Echocardiography.
- To work within existing local policies, procedures, and guidelines providing best practice.
- To undertake routine diagnostic cardiac investigations and interpret results to provide accurate clinical reports that can be clearly understood by a physician not experienced in that particular area and adheres to local and national guidelines.
- Carry out audit to continuously improve patient care and service needs.
- Participate in the training and development of both external university students and junior team members.
- Communicate and interact effectively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure a positive patient experience.
- Assist the Clinical Echocardiography Service Leads and other senior members of the team in the day to day organisation and delivery of the Cardio-Respiratory diagnostic service.
- To act as a Trainee Echocardiographer performing cardiac echocardiography based diagnostic testing.
- To work towards becoming a BSE accredited Echocardiographer and complete a PGCert in Echocardiography.
- To work within existing local policies, procedures, and guidelines providing best practice.
- To undertake routine diagnostic cardiac investigations and interpret results to provide accurate clinical reports that can be clearly understood by a physician not experienced in that particular area and adheres to local and national guidelines.
- Carry out audit to continuously improve patient care and service needs.
- Participate in the training and development of both external university students and junior team members.
- Communicate and interact effectively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure a positive patient experience.
- Assist the Clinical Echocardiography Service Leads and other senior members of the team in the day to day organisation and delivery of the Cardio-Respiratory diagnostic service.
- 2:1 BSc (Hons) Degree in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific degree such as Biology, Human Biology, or Sports Science
- AHCS Registration
- Current ILS certification
- An understanding of the role of an Echocardiographer in healthcare and its application in a healthcare setting
- Ability to support patients including those with a range of acute or chronic clinical conditions and disabilities in a variety of healthcare settings
- A basic understanding of quality control and management assurance in a science or work-based context
- Ability to develop proficiency in the performance of routine and complex techniques in Echocardiography following Standard Operating Procedures
- Ability to analyse and assess scientific, technical, and medical literature
- Ability to use, maintain and troubleshoot scientific equipment
- Ability to analyse complex information and identify abnormal results
- A basic knowledge to formulate a clinical judgement involving facts or situations that impact on patients
- Previous NHS experience and/or work experience in a Cardiology Department
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills with a proven ability to organise own time
- Ability to work under pressure and endure long periods of concentration
- Effective team worker, willing to adopt a role working in collaboration with others.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to relate and communicate with staff of all levels and from different professions
- Be able to accept responsibility and be accountable
- Flexibility to acquire the skills to organise, plan and monitor the workload of others
- Good active listening skills
- Self-aware and flexible to adopt a range of evaluative or empathising listening styles according to the needs of the listener and the situation
- Reliable and flexible
- Punctual and an effective timekeeper
- Good understanding of ethics and professional practice, the NHS constitution, and the importance of patient centred care
- Proven knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues
- 2:1 BSc (Hons) Degree in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific degree such as Biology, Human Biology, or Sports Science
- AHCS Registration
- Current ILS certification
- An understanding of the role of an Echocardiographer in healthcare and its application in a healthcare setting
- Ability to support patients including those with a range of acute or chronic clinical conditions and disabilities in a variety of healthcare settings
- A basic understanding of quality control and management assurance in a science or work-based context
- Ability to develop proficiency in the performance of routine and complex techniques in Echocardiography following Standard Operating Procedures
- Ability to analyse and assess scientific, technical, and medical literature
- Ability to use, maintain and troubleshoot scientific equipment
- Ability to analyse complex information and identify abnormal results
- A basic knowledge to formulate a clinical judgement involving facts or situations that impact on patients
- Previous NHS experience and/or work experience in a Cardiology Department
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills with a proven ability to organise own time
- Ability to work under pressure and endure long periods of concentration
- Effective team worker, willing to adopt a role working in collaboration with others.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to relate and communicate with staff of all levels and from different professions
- Be able to accept responsibility and be accountable
- Flexibility to acquire the skills to organise, plan and monitor the workload of others
- Good active listening skills
- Self-aware and flexible to adopt a range of evaluative or empathising listening styles according to the needs of the listener and the situation
- Reliable and flexible
- Punctual and an effective timekeeper
- Good understanding of ethics and professional practice, the NHS constitution, and the importance of patient centred care
- Proven knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues
Job summary
Are you a registered Healthcare Scientist with the AHCS, or completing your undergraduate Healthcare Science degree this academic year and are looking to specialise in Echocardiography?
Here at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust we have an exciting opportunity for an 18 month fixed term full-time training post in Echocardiography. This is part of the Echocardiography Training Programme (ETP) developed by the National School of Healthcare Science and trains you to become highly skilled in performing and reporting cardiac ultrasound diagnostic procedures.
Applicants for this programme are required to have a 1st or 2:1 in either an undergraduate honours degree in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific subject such as Biology, Human Biology or Sports Science. Applicants who are completing their undergraduate Cardiac Physiology (PTP) programme this year are also encouraged to apply but must be registered with the AHCS by the time the programme starts.
The successful ETP trainee will be trained to BSE accreditation level 2 and be awarded a Post-graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography. For more information please see the NSHCS website: https://nshcs.hee.nhs.uk/programmes/echocardiography-training-programme
Main duties of the job
The Trainee Echocardiographer will be employed for a fixed term of 18 months within the Cardio-Respiratory Department during which time they will work through a programme of learning.
In conjunction with and supported by the Designated Echocardiography Training Officer, the Trainee Echocardiographer will be responsible for their own progression through the training programme, completing a mixture of work based competence and experience within CHFT, completing the learning outcomes as outlined in the ETP curriculum, undertaking the complementary academic Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography and preparing for and completing the BSE Transthoracic Accreditation process.
At all times the Trainee Echocardiographer is expected to work within standard operating policies and procedures of the host department and NHS organisation and adhere to high standards of professionalism, health and safety, risk reduction, confidentiality, patient care and dignity, and respect for equality and diversity as set out in the NHS Constitution.The Trainee Echocardiographer will be employed by the host department for a fixed term of 18 months during which time they will work through a programme of learning. This will be combined with an academic programme at Post Graduate level delivered by the University of Newcastle over the first year of the programme and will attend two block weeks.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Date posted
11 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
18 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
372-MED2401
Job locations
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Calderdale Royal Hospital, Salterhebble
Halifax
HX3 0PW
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Job responsibilities
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Job responsibilities
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Qualifications/Training
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Knowledge, experience & expertise
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Communication & relationships
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Qualifications/Training
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Knowledge, experience & expertise
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Desirable
Communication & relationships
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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.
Employer details
Employer name
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Calderdale Royal Hospital, Salterhebble
Halifax
HX3 0PW
Employer's website
https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Calderdale Royal Hospital, Salterhebble
Halifax
HX3 0PW
Employer's website
https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.