Senior Chief Echocardiographer - Lead of ICC and Cardiomyopathy

Principal Responsibilities and duties: Clinical: • Achieves and maintains a high level of competence in paediatric and congenital echocardiography. Produce an accurate and comprehensive report for each study, with responsibility for your own caseload. • Perform transthoracic echocardiograms to a high standard in accordance with departmental minimum standards, with sufficient experience and knowledge to deviate from policy as required to obtain a clinically relevant study. • Interpretation of complex clinical information to diagnose a variety of highly complex congenital cardiac pathologies, including potentially life-threatening anatomies, and applying theory to delivering a comprehensive study, including the interpretation and reporting of information you personally acquire. Provides clinical evaluation pre- and post-operatively. • Be responsible for leading, managing and developing the Inherited Cardiac Conditions service within the cardiac department. • Ensure that personal knowledge base in current and up to date for this field of work. • Participate in outreach clinics often with consultant support • Ensures that all clinical duties are carried out in such a manner as to ensure safety and compliance with departmental minimum standards. • To act as an effective role model within the department contributing to the education, training and development of technical staff. • To be responsible for overseeing minimum standards within the specialist area, ensuring that these are maintained and any issues identified are reported to the principal cardiac physiologist. • To maintain a clinical workload by performing and reporting highly specialist and complex clinical cardiac investigations. • Responsibility for Policy/Service Development for functional assessments and inherited cardiac conditions. • Responsible for service development, ensuring that high quality patient centred services are based on the best available evidence and be a driving force in the development of a protocol driven service. • To be aware of and implement the Trust and Cardiology guidelines with respect to Health and Safety Please see job description document for full responsibilities. Job description Job responsibilities Principal Responsibilities and duties: Clinical: • Achieves and maintains a high level of competence in paediatric and congenital echocardiography. Produce an accurate and comprehensive report for each study, with responsibility for your own caseload. • Perform transthoracic echocardiograms to a high standard in accordance with departmental minimum standards, with sufficient experience and knowledge to deviate from policy as required to obtain a clinically relevant study. • Interpretation of complex clinical information to diagnose a variety of highly complex congenital cardiac pathologies, including potentially life-threatening anatomies, and applying theory to delivering a comprehensive study, including the interpretation and reporting of information you personally acquire. Provides clinical evaluation pre- and post-operatively. • Be responsible for leading, managing and developing the Inherited Cardiac Conditions service within the cardiac department. • Ensure that personal knowledge base in current and up to date for this field of work. • Participate in outreach clinics often with consultant support • Ensures that all clinical duties are carried out in such a manner as to ensure safety and compliance with departmental minimum standards. • To act as an effective role model within the department contributing to the education, training and development of technical staff. • To be responsible for overseeing minimum standards within the specialist area, ensuring that these are maintained and any issues identified are reported to the principal cardiac physiologist. • To maintain a clinical workload by performing and reporting highly specialist and complex clinical cardiac investigations. • Responsibility for Policy/Service Development for functional assessments and inherited cardiac conditions. • Responsible for service development, ensuring that high quality patient centred services are based on the best available evidence and be a driving force in the development of a protocol driven service. • To be aware of and implement the Trust and Cardiology guidelines with respect to Health and Safety Please see job description document for full responsibilities.