Chief Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiography): Sponsorship Available

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Job summary

The technical cardiology team for Norfolk and Norwich University hospital are recruiting for a chief cardiac physiologist in echocardiography to join their dedicated team. This is a Band 7 post and the candidate will be able to scan and report echocardiogram in accordance with their BSE Level 2 accreditation, only candidates with BSE level 2 accreditation or recognised equivalence will be considered. You will be mainly based on the main hospital site at Colney Lane, Norwich, whereby part of a service that offers range of cardiac services including acute cardiology ward, angiography suite, dedicated coronary care unit which is the PPCI centre for Norfolk.

Our values of People Focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication, and Excellence – PRIDE – are important to us and how they relate to our work:

As a chief cardiac physiologist, people are at the heart of what you will do. Our department manages a large non-invasive workload including ambulatory monitoring, pacemaker, and loop recorder follow-up work as well as echocardiography in the form of TTE, TOE, stress echo, and congenital heart disease. You will work towards becoming a lead for our patient focused service which delivers approximately 18,000 transthoracic echocardiograms annually. We are seeking a colleague who can understand the complex nature of the services we provide and how important this is to help us improve patients care.

Main duties of the job

With our department covering a range of procedures and services but working with the wider multidisciplinary team and other hospitals. We require you to provide excellence in your communication and teamwork with a personable, approachable, and respectful manner to both individuals of our wider cardiology team and our patients and visitors. Your primary role will be scan and report echocardiograms solo when all competencies are met and the Band 7 post is achieved. Our aim is delivering a high-quality service for all patients within your sphere of influence and perform to the level of an independent practitioner within our specialised technical cardiology field. There is the aim for this role to provide clinical and managerial leadership and support all our staff including providing support and guidance to develop our staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc Clinical Physiology, Cardiology or equivalent with significant experience at Senior Cardiology Physiologist level
  • BSE Adult accreditation or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • Knowledge and experience of working in all areas of Technical Cardiology
  • Significant experience of working in echocardiography at Senior level

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Attitude, aptitude

Essential

  • Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
  • Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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: 15 September 2026

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