St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Cardiac Science – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Our Trust
With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
A number of our services are members of established clinical networks which bring together doctors, nurses and other clinicians from a range of healthcare providers working to improve the quality of services for patients. These include the South London Cardiac and Stroke Network and the South West London and Surrey Trauma Network, for which St George’s Hospital is the designated heart attack centre, hyper-acute stroke unit and major trauma centre.
The Cardiac Physiology Department
Within Cardiac Physiology at the St Georges, there is a team of approximately 60 cardiac physiologists will help you through your development and understanding of cardiac physiology and disease processes. We cover all diagnostic and intervention cardiac procedures, no matter how simple or complex, we perform the following: ECG and Holter monitoring and analysis; Exercise tolerance testing, including CPET; Cardiac catherisation, including PPCI; Cardiac Device implants and follow up; Echo, including TTE, TOE, Stress and Valve clinic.
Education is important here at St George’s, so we have a range of staff from newly qualified PTP students, to highly specialised physiologists and you as STP students are part of this. During your time here at St George’s you are likely to encounter students from other educational institutes, at different levels of academic learning and from different courses.
Clinical Engineering – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This post comes under the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering St. George’s (STP consortium only).
Training is undertaken in the main St. George’s site and in Queen Mary’s Roehampton. Depending on the nature of your specialism you will be then be based at one of those two sites.
Critical Care Science – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Gastrointestinal Physiology – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This training post will specialise in Gastrointestinal Physiology at a busy London hospital. The department is a tertiary centre for GI physiology investigations and receives referrals from across the UK. We have an active role in research especially within upper GI physiology and are hoping to expand this. The hospital is based in the vibrant south west London neighbourhood of Tooting which has both overground and underground travel links. The post holder will be required to travel across sites all of which are based in south west London. We are hoping to not only develop new clinical scientists within the field but also to develop our own service long term.
Genomic Counselling – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The successful applicant will primarily be based at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London but will also need to travel to clinics we hold across South London, Surrey and West Sussex as required.
Medical Physics undefined – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This post comes under the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering King’s (STP Consortium only).
Training is undertaken at St. George’s and The Royal Marsden Sutton. Radiotherapy is only done at Royal Marsden and Diagnostic Radiology is only done at St. George’s (and the RPC). The other two specialisms will be done at both centres.
Respiratory and Sleep Science – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The respiratory and sleep service is located at St George’s teaching hospital and Queen Mary’s district hospital in Roehampton. Travel between sites is required, a shuttle bus between sites is available if required to commute in the working period. Cardiac and CCU specialisms will be undertaken at St George’s. Neurophysiology will be undertaken at Kingston Hospital.
Vascular Science – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Main base of role will be at St George’s Hospital, SW17 0QT. No other external sites will be required. The department consists of three scanning rooms in a clinical team of six clinical scientists. We provide vascular ultrasound for a large spectrum of diseases, specialising in EVAR and AAA imaging. The hospital is located very close to Tooting Broadway underground station and also has many accessible bus routes.