Band 7 Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist (Echo): Sponsorship Available

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a patient focussed, experienced and highly skilled individual to join our ambitious, and supportive team at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. As part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, we are part of a BSE accredited department for transthoracic echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography, and training. We focus on delivering timely, high-quality patient centred services to all; whilst providing a positive environment for innovation, service development and ongoing personal development for our team members including a number of physiologist-led services.

The successful candidate will act as a positive role model within the team to work autonomously and independently to perform and report adult echocardiograms to local and international standards, demonstrating a high level of competence and workload management. You will contribute to wider cardiac physiology services, and support training / competency development across the team. You will work in conjunction with service leads to support the effective day-to-day running of the Cardiology service, participate in a broad range of cardiology activities, play an active role in supporting the department in maintaining BSE accreditation standards, as well as contributing to the training, supervision, competency and professional development of colleagues across the team.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

*Practising with a high level of competence in echocardiography, working with the autonomy appropriate to Band 7 level

*Supporting the delivery of a range of cardiac physiology procedures, and maintaining competency across core areas by undertaking these as required

*Assisting in the day-to-day coordination and leadership of the echocardiography service, and / or department as required.

*Contributing to the training and development of multidisciplinary staff, supporting both practical and theoretical learning

*Participating in service development and quality improvement initiatives, including audit and research activity

*Supporting competency assessment and training within echocardiography and the wider department.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc in Clinical Physiology (or equivalent)
  • or Masters in Cardiac Science or equivalent
  • Highly specialist knowledge of Clinical Physiology in at least one area to Masters level or equivalent.
  • Adult TTE BSE Accreditation
  • RCCP /AHCS Registered or able to register.

Desirable

  • Training/Assessor’s qualification
  • ASCST/MSCST

Experience

Essential

  • Experience and scientific knowledge through formal study, training and practice in highly complex and specialized Cardiac investigations. (E)
  • Supervisory experience.
  • Experience in the use of PCs and data entry.
  • Experience of Cardiology IT storage systems.

Desirable

  • Health and Safety knowledge and experience.
  • Research experience

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Confident to train medical personnel and technical colleagues.
  • Confident and competent to write accurate clinical and technical reports.
  • Confident and competent to act appropriately in emergencies and in the event of significant clinical findings.
  • Capable of supervising staff, delegating and prioritising.
  • Confident at liaison with medical staff / technical / nursing staff and managers.
  • Able to deal with conflicts.
  • Capable of prioritisation.
  • Confident to liaise with other staff groups ( Consultant staff, Medical staff, Nursing staff and peer groups )
  • Must be able to work as a team member
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Motivation
  • Flexibility & Adaptability
  • Maintains confidentiality
  • Ability to work in a challenging and busy environment to tight deadlines
  • To be able to relate and respond to complex and sensitive issues
  • Awareness and understanding of issues around confidentiality and the handling of clinical information.
  • Able to deal appropriately with urgent clinical issues.
  • Able to meet deadlines.
  • Familiar with the collection of statistical information and audit.
  • Awareness and understanding of issues facing the NHS and those impacting on Cardiac Physiology either directly or indirectly.
  • Flexible and reliable
  • Possible 7 day working
  • Ability to work cross site / in community diagnostic hubs
  • Ability to work on call (essential when required)

Desirable

  • Experience in staff side matters and HR issues.

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 27 October 2026

To apply for this job please visit uhb.tal.net.