Trainee Echocardiographer Reading, England
Job description
The Trainee Echocardiographer will be employed for a fixed term of 18 months during which time they will work through a programme of learning.
In conjunction with and supported by the Designated 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 in NHS scientific departments, completing the learning outcomes as outlined in the Curriculum Library, undertaking the complementary academic Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography and preparing for and completing the BSE Transthoracic Accreditation process.
The trainee will undertake the full training programme in order to progress through the academic and practical elements of the training scheme. In so doing they will learn how to perform and interpret clinical and specialist scientific processes underpinned by theoretical and applied knowledge and practical experience and will learn how to:
- Perform and interpret routine cardiac investigations.
- Perform specialised diagnostics investigations.
- Carry out complex scientific and clinical roles, including those working directly with patients.
- Analyse and interpret and data compare investigative and clinical options.
- Make judgements, including clinical and differential judgements, involving complicated facts or situations that impact on patients.
- Initiate and undertake innovation, improvement and R&D and be involved in the education of healthcare science trainees and other learners in the workplace.
- 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 within a multidisciplinary team to ensure a positive patient experience.
- Assist the Principal Cardiac Physiologist and other senior members of the team in the day to day organisation and delivery of the cardiothoracic diagnostic service.
The Trust provides services over five hospital sites and delivers services over a wide range of specialities. We are one of the country's largest general hospital foundation trusts - serving a population of more than 500,000 people - and the primary provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire. Our reputation for delivering high quality, well-led services in a hospital is rated as GOOD by the CQC.
Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Principal Responsibilities
Actively participate in a broad range of service provision following a period of training and assessment. Maintain discipline and standards of technical competency in the provision of invasive and non-invasive investigative services within the department, in accordance to national and local guideline. Candidate will be completing a preceptorship year and will complete a competency logbook alongside their training.
Uphold trust care values- located on trust intranet
