Echocardiographer – ETP Trainee: Sponsorship Available

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Join our dynamic and forward-thinking Echocardiography team and take your career to the next level.

We are an ambitious, enthusiastic and highly skilled department delivering a wide range of echocardiography services — from standard and community clinics to complex specialist studies. Our physiologist-led services include stress echocardiography, bubble and contrast studies, and we are expanding into physiologist-led TOE. We are also proud to be a regional centre of excellence for the assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension.

As a fully accredited department (TTE, Stress and TOE) and a recognised British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) training centre, we offer a supportive environment where you can develop advanced skills and gain nationally recognised qualifications.

In this role, you will be supported to train to BSE Level 2 and achieve full BSE Transthoracic Echocardiography accreditation within 18 months. You will also complete a Postgraduate Certificate with the University of the West of England, delivered in partnership with the National School of Healthcare Science.

If you’re enthusiastic, motivated and ready to join a progressive team committed to excellence in cardiac diagnostics, we’d love to hear from you.

 

Main duties of the job

Performing standard Transthoracic echocardiograms in various inpatient and outpatient settings and producing accurate and reproducible measurements and quantification, interpreting findings to a highly competent professional standard once trained.

Person Specification

Educational

Essential

  •  A 1st or 2:1 in either an undergraduate honours degree (including an integrated master’s degree) in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific subject (examples include Pure or Applied Physics, Biology or Human Biology, or Sports Science (if significant scientific content)
  • A 2:2 undergraduate honours degree in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) plus relevant cardiology experience and approval from the relevant HEI
  • A 2:2 undergraduate honours degree plus relevant higher degree excluding MSc in Echocardiography
  • An alternative or vocational qualification plus sufficient and relevant experience and appropriate underpinning knowledge and skills in cardiology, as evidenced by registration on the Academy for Healthcare Science Accredited Healthcare Science Practitioner Register, and approval from the relevant HEI

Clinical

Essential

  • Has an understanding of the role of an Echocardiographer in healthcare and disease and its application in a healthcare setting.

Scientific Skills

Essential

  • Good IT skills and knowledge of common computing packages for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages and databases.

Scientific Skills

Essential

  • Highly developed co-ordination skills with good dexterity and hand-eye coordination and those skills required for the performance of fine analytical techniques.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 31 March 2026

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