Cardiac Echocardiogram Sonographer

Job summary

Cardiac Echocardiogram Sonographer| Part Time, 2 days per week - alternating Thursday + Friday / Tuesday + Wednesday each week. | Up to £50k, depending on experience | Tollerton, South Nottinghamshire | £2000 joining bonus*

The continued growth of Spire Nottingham Hospital has created an opportunity for an experienced Cardiac Echocardiogram Sonographer to join our friendly, dynamic team.

Our Cardiology Team was recently announced winner of the Spire Healthcare Exemplar award for their outstanding focus on patient experience, dignity, safety, effectiveness and clinical innovation

We are pleased to be offering a £2000 joining bonus for eligible direct applications. This will be pro rata to part time hours.

Spire Nottingham Hospital is a premium provider of private healthcare. We practice some of the most advanced treatments with the latest generation imaging and diagnostic technology. This means we can offer everything from screening, rehabilitation and cutting-edge surgical procedures across a variety of specialist treatments which are all delivered through our expert and caring clinical teams. We are the only CQC Outstanding rated private hospital in Nottinghamshire and we are committed to delivering excellent individual care from the first time a patient contacts us until after their treatment is complete.

Main duties of the job

Duties and responsibilities

Working within a state of the art department you will be using GE scanners and online platform for reporting.

  • Performing cardiac sonographer investigations for adults and adolescent patients, as part of the BSE guidance.
  • Assess patients health and wellbeing across a complex and changing caseload.
  • Contribute to the implementation of new cardiac services.
  • Contribute to quality improvement.
  • Apply technology for measurement, monitoring and treatment.
  • Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility

About us

At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We have been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 25 years. We're committed to looking after people, both patients and staff. We deliver high standards of care to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients across 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms. Our successful business is led by an experienced and stable senior management team, we provide the highest quality of care through the latest medical technology, new facilities, and a focus on inspiring leadership and employee development. We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to 'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care'. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated 'Good' or 'Outstanding' by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Who we're looking for

You will be able to demonstrate your detail oriented thinking, interpersonal skills and technological aptitude.

  • BSC Clinical Physiology or equivalent
  • Completion of BSE
  • Minimum of 2 years experience as a registered echocardiographer.
  • BSE registered.
  • You will have the ability to scan adults, and ideally adolescent patients.

Benefits

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

  • 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
  • Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
  • Spire for you reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
  • Free Bupa wellness screening
  • Private medical insurance
  • Life assurance

Please see the attached benefits leaflet for more information.

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Hannah Radford on 077252 08712 or hannah.radford@spirehealthcare.com

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential
  • Please see above

Experience

Essential
  • Please see above

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Spire Healthcare Ltd

Address

Tollerton Lane

Nottingham

NG12 4GA


Employer's website

https://www.spirehealthcare.com/


Company
Spire Healthcare Ltd
Location
Nottingham, United Kingdom NG12 4GA
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
Negotiable
Posted
Company
Spire Healthcare Ltd
Location
Nottingham, United Kingdom NG12 4GA
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
Negotiable
Posted