Clinical Perfusion Specialist London, England
Job description
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Perfusion Specialist
Salary: Agenda for Change Band 8a plus HCA.
Guy's & St Thomas' Cardiovascular Department is one of the largest in the United Kingdom and within the directorate is the Department of Clinical Perfusion based at St Thomas' Hospital.
The Perfusion department at Guy's and St Thomas' performs approximately 1500 adult and paediatric cardiac surgical bypass procedures per year whilst providing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation support for acute respiratory failure for both adults and paediatrics. Other services supported include Trans Catheter Aortic Valve Surgery, Laser Lead Extractions and Intra Aortic Balloon Pump therapy.
An opportunity has arisen within the department to appoint a new Clinical Perfusion Specialist.
The successful candidate would ideally have a number of years post qualification experience and join the team in its ongoing commitment to support cardiac surgery, adult ECMO services and an expanding paediatric ECMO service.
Applicants to this post would also ideally have ECMO and/or paediatric experience, although training and mentoring in either/both will be given as and where required.
Participation in the on-call rota is essential.
Applicant must hold the Society of Perfusionists accreditation certificate and be registered with the college of Clinical Perfusion Scientists.
For information and to arrange an informal visit, please contact either Aidan Grehan on 07803 297238 or Geoff Fowler on 07747533814.
Part-time and flexible working will be considered.
- Provide significant, highly specialist, autonomously managed, direct care delivery.
- Provide highly specialist advice directly related to care delivery and technical aspects of treatment.
- Undertake significant out of hours commitment for autonomously managed, direct care delivery on a rota basis.
- Allocation of daily duties appropriate to skill mix in the absence of the Perfusion Manager / Lead Clinician (Consultant Level) Clinical Perfusion or Deputy Manager.
- Responsible for the development and delivery of specialist training packages to trainees and members of the multidisciplinary team i.e. medical and nursing staff.
