There is an exciting opportunity to join the Cardiac Physiology Team at NHS Forth Valley. We are looking for an additional Assistant Technical Officer to join our friendly and experienced Echocardiography team.
The service has 11 consultants with clinical expertise in all aspects of Cardiology including cardiac imaging including CT, Rhythm management, Electrophysiology and Heart Failure. Coronary intervention is provided by our tertiary partners in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The Cardiac staff is made up of Junior and Senior Cardiac Physiology staff, Experienced and Assistant Technical Officers.
The Cardiac Investigations department provides routine diagnostic procedures such as routine ECG, Holter/Events monitors and recorders, Ambulatory monitoring analysis, Exercise Tolerance tests, and Implantable Loop clinics and implants. The Echocardiography service at provides TTE, TOE, Stress Echo and Contrast/Bubble studies.
This is a new role within our department which will provide support to the Cardiac Physiologists and overall service delivery within the Echo team. There will be multidisciplinary working with our Cardiology Nurses and Medical staff within Cardiology Outpatients.
There will be additional training in performing ECG ( Electrocardiograms) and 24hr Holter and BP application.
Our Cardiac Imaging Service covers a wealth of specialist areas including TTE, TOE as well as a well-established and renowned Stress Echo service. We perform approx 8000-9000 TTE and 200 Stress echo studies a year. The team run annual Basic and Advanced educational courses. We also have a well-established multimodality cardiac imaging service with CT coronary angiography available for the investigation of chest pain, and a developing cardiac MRI service.
Forth Valley Royal Hospital is a new, modern district general hospital and the Forth Valley region is situated in the Scottish central belt with easy access to the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling.
Informal enquiries/ Departmental Visits to Jackie Maclachlan Cardiac Investigations Manager, 01324566968
The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at www.disclosurescotland.co.uk
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