Over 40 new jobs are available at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust in preparation for the opening of the new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC).
These new recruits will work in the brand-new facility which will significantly expand and improve Islander’s access to high-quality diagnostic care.
This investment into the NHS workforce will support the delivery of Cardiac Physiology, Respiratory Physiology and Sleep Studies, osteoporosis scanning, investigative procedures, and radiology services.
Newly created roles include Trainee Sonographers and Cardiac Physiologist Associates, as well as clerical and administrative posts. The Trust is welcoming applications from a wide range of candidates and for a number of roles, no previous healthcare experience is needed because full training and support will be provided.
The new recruits will play a pivotal role in the launch and running of the CDC which will provide the right tests, in the right place, at the right time for the Island community.
Kelly Pearce, Principal Cardiac Physiologist said:
“The CDC has given us the opportunity to expand our services to continue delivering excellent patient-centred care to the community as well as our acute services.
Article continues below this advertisement “Our focus in Cardiac Investigations is to grow our own workforce to ensure it is sustainable for the future.
“The CDC has allowed us to create new ways of working in order for our service to be more efficient and to employ five new apprentices with a dedicated learning pathway in cardiology.”
Amanda Shaw, Associate Director of Transformation & Partnerships said:
“This is a fantastic opportunity to bring people into NHS careers to support the launch of our Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), delivering first-class diagnostic care to our island community. We want to champion innovation, developing new patient pathways that support faster diagnosis and ultimately improve patient outcomes and these new roles will be front and centre in designing and delivering these future models of care.
“We are passionate about ‘growing our own’ and want the CDC to be a place where our people can gain valuable experience and gain confidence in their skills with support from peers. These new roles have been created with a focus on enabling professional development with training opportunities available in Respiratory, Cardiac Physiology and Radiology.”
The Trust has also been given access to Health Education England funding, apprenticeships and in-service development to support the new roles. The new roles are being advertised on the Trust’s recruitment website over the coming weeks.
You can find a full list of vacancies on the Trust’s recruitment website: https://iowhealthandcare.co.uk/recruitment/home/current-vacancies
Good to hear that services will be delivered in the right place, but where is that place that the new NHS CDC is going to do it?
Haven’t I read, on these very pages, that St Marys has a huge recruitment problem with jobs going unfilled due to a lack of interest? If they cannot recruit Nurses and Doctors then how will they manage to fill ALL the vacancies that the current plans will require? Now that many of us have to travel to either Portsmouth or Southampton for quite a few treatments, will this new shiny building full of brilliant equipment and high quality staff allow some treatment to be brought back to the Island or are they just aiming to improve existing services or develop new ones…?
Diagnostic, that’s the key word. Then it will be to the mainland for treatment as St Mary’s is only a small general hospital.
I think they know how to send patients to the mainland for real treatment.
I have many friends who work at St Mary’s, they don’t have any procedures
carried out there.
I don’t blame them.
I don’t think you know what you’re talking about mate?!
No experience necessary?
That’s reassuring then in the event they actually fill the posts!
“Full training will be given.” A big clue there.
Where in the community will be this amazing new centre? On site? It’ll need to be properly equipped to house diagnostic equipment wouldn’t it? How will they recruit new staff too, almost impossible to get decent ones as it is! Money for all this but none for what really needs it, as usual..
Dementia care mental health etc..
Ah, the machine that goes ping. Very impressive.
Isn’t it about time they actually built a hospital on the isle of wight with an a&e instead of people having to cross the water to get treatment ridiculous
Ummm, St Mary’s has an A&E.
Of course it does. Wake up Sarah!