Advanced Practice Cardiac Physiologist

**Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora - Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District**
**Location**: This position is expected to work primarily from Wellington hospital

**Service**: Cardiology Service

**Contract**: Fixed Term (12 months), Fulltime

**Salary**: $122,570 - $127,720

**Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role**

The Advanced Practice Cardiology Physiologist:

- Demonstrates strong evidence-based practice in the fields of Electrophysiology and/or Devices
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of types and mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias
- Demonstrates a high level of clinical reasoning, with the ability to analyse complex clinical and technical information to identify the problem and make appropriate clinical decisions based on the findings.
- Communicates and documents comprehensively and effectively.
- Provides expert technical support to others and undertakes complex clinical trouble shooting both locally and for other regions
- Investigates and alerts others to learnings from local experience, relevant journal articles and international guidelines
- Undertakes complex trouble shooting in relation to materials and equipment used for investigations and procedures

**Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team**

The Cardiology Service is a Secondary and Tertiary service provided for Health New Zealand, Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley (CC & HV) and those of the central region of New Zealand.

Cardiology at CC & HV includes:

- Outpatient Clinics
- Cardiac Diagnostic Testing
- The Heart and Lung Unit
- Cardiac Interventional Suite, providing the following procedures: Coronary Angiograms
- Left & right heart studies
- Coronary intervention and CTO
- Balloon Valvuloplasty and TAVI
- PFO/ASD/LAA Closure
- Pacing, ICD and CRT implants
- Electrophysiology Studies, 3D mapping and Ablation

Cardiac Physiology Service includes:

- Pacing/ICD follow-up service, including remote monitoring and travelling clinics
- Cath Lab, Device Implants and Electrophysiology
- Echocardiography
- Exercise Tolerance Testing
- Ambulatory monitoring
- Holters, Events & BP
- Electrocardiography
- Training of Provisional Cardiac Physiologists, Cardiac Physiology Technicians and other Health Care staff

Clinical Physiology provides a full range of diagnostic testing as an integral part of the Cardiology Service.

The CC & HV Cardiology Service is accredited as an SCT training facility.

**Moū - About you**

Someone well-suited to the role will place a high value on the following:

- Participating in and contributing to high performing teams
- Promoting a positive & collaborative team environment
- Expert knowledge in specialty area

Knowledge, skills & Experience:

- At least 9 years post graduate experience
- Practice and further training has been completed, demonstrating a high level of clinical competence in a specialty area, EP and/or Devices.
- Ability to teach, lead & and mentor developing staff in area of speciality

Essential Professional Qualifications / Accreditations / Registrations:

- Current Annual Practising Certificate
- Membership of SCT
- BSc
- Post Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Technology
- International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) and/or The Cardiac Electrophysiology Institute of Australasia (CEPIA) Graduate Diploma

**E pā ana ki a tatou - About us**

Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

To find out more about us click on the following links:
Capital and Coast

Hutt Valley

Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service

**Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply**

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**By joining together we will succeed