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Amy Rhodes

Wellington,New Zealand

Summary

Ambitious and compassionate BSE accredited cardiac sonographer with a genuine interest in providing gold standard cardiac investigations for patients. Additionally, I have a background of other experience in hospitality, customer service and sales. Although I am passionate about cardiac sonography I am looking to branch into other areas including sales and technology utilising my prior skills to optimise centres with their equipment and applications.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Cardiac Sonographer

Wellington Regional and Hutt Hospital
11.2024 - Current
  • Performing and reporting standard TTEs, stress echoes, TOEs, contrast and bubble study's on a variety of inpatient and outpatients across two sites.
  • Assisting with ultrasound during interventions including BAVs and post operative scans.
  • Training and supervising students.

Chief Cardiac Physiologist

Isle of Wight NHS Trust, UK
04.2024 - 11.2024
  • After obtaining my BSE qualification I began a junior management position with new responsibilities for helping train and mentor new physiologists
  • My duties include; outpatient echo clinics, inpatient echoes, ECG analysis, assisting with TOEs and contrast/bubble study echoes
  • I wrote the SOP and set up dedicated clinics for valve disease and chemotherapy patients, whilst working towards my SCST diploma in ECG and continuing to advance in echo

Trainee Echocardiographer

Isle of Wight NHS Trust
09.2022 - 03.2024
  • I successfully began my role as part of the Echo Training Programme (ETP), an 18 month comprehensive training scheme with university level teaching and obtaining my BSE and post graduate diploma at the end of the course.

Education

PGCert - Clinical Echocardiography

Newcastle University
06.2023

BSc(Hons) - Biomedical Science

University of Brighton
07.2021

Skills

  • BSE Level 2 Accreditation in Echocardiography
  • MRTB Registration
  • SCST Foundation in Essential ECG Interpretation
  • CPR and Intermediate Life Support (ILS)
  • Assisting with TOEs and Contrast/bubble echocardiograms
  • 3D Echocardiography
  • Management and Training
  • Sales and Customer Service

Other

Prior to my career as a cardiac sonographer, I worked for 10 years in a variety of industries. I was employed at an array of hospitality venues working my way up to assistant manager alongside doing my university degree. I also worked as a sales consultant for companies including ANZ selling life insurance and On the Move (Australia) assisting businesses and individuals with better energy and internet rates as well as many other customer service positions . My sales/customer service experience compliments my work as a cardiac sonographer for the role as a cardiac ultrasound applications specialist. 

Timeline

Cardiac Sonographer

Wellington Regional and Hutt Hospital
11.2024 - Current

Chief Cardiac Physiologist

Isle of Wight NHS Trust, UK
04.2024 - 11.2024

Trainee Echocardiographer

Isle of Wight NHS Trust
09.2022 - 03.2024

BSc(Hons) - Biomedical Science

University of Brighton

PGCert - Clinical Echocardiography

Newcastle University
Amy Rhodes