Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist – Echocardiography: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Job summary

Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist – Echocardiography

37.5 hours per week (4 day week: Monday – Friday)

Fixed term for 12 months (Maternity Cover)

Salary: £49,387 – £56,515 per annum

Closing Date: Monday 30th November 2026

Interview Date: TBC

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The Physiological Sciences Services at George Eliot Hospital Nuneaton, are looking to recruit a Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist Echocardiography.

Main duties of the job

  • The post holder will be a BSE accredited reporting Sonographer. They will be required to work along side the Lead. Echocardiographer to provide a comprehensive and high quality transthoracic and transoesophageal echo services and will provide professional expertise in this highly specialised discipline.
  • The post holder will maintain a high standard of clinical practice and will act as a role model for junior members of staff within the Cardiac investigations department.

Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist-Echocardiography

  • To perform adult transthoracic echocardiograms, including urgent portable scans, to a high standard in accordance with BSE guidelines and department standards.
  • To identify and advise when transthoracic echocardiography is insufficient to answer the clinical question and proactively suggest alternative/additional investigations.
  • To produce an accurate and comprehensive report for each study, with responsibility for your own caseload.
  • To over report junior staff workload and ensure minimum data sets are obtained and standards are regularly audited.
  • To provide clinical technical assistance with Transoesophageal echo.
  • To ensure adherence to cleaning protocols for TOE probes.

Person Specification

Qualification and Professional Traing

Essential

  • BSC in Clinical Physiology (Cardiology) or equivalent APEL and ONC, plus HNC in Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement (MPPM)
  • Master level degree or equivalent qualification in Healthcare Science
  • Accreditation with BSE or BHRS
  • p of the Society for Cardiological Science and Technology (MSCST)
  • HCPC registered

Desirable

  • Intermediate Life Support
  • Mary Seacole NHS Leadership Award or equivalent
  • DClinSci or PhD

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

  • Extensive experience in a formal leadership role within an NHS Hospital Trust
  • Experience as an independent practitioner across the range of routine and specialised investigations and therapeutic interventions, such as but not limited to o 3d Echo o Stress echo and TOE
  • Evidence of clinical research and audit
  • Developing and implementing training packages
  • Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience with governance, QA and/or complaint management
  • Experience of planning and developing specialist services including contributing toward local and national policies

Desirable

  • Experience of Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation process

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Day-to-day local rota management
  • Comprehensive leadership and management abilities
  • Self-disciplined and self-motivated
  • Ability to manage and lead team in emergency situations
  • Ability to engage the team and develop changes in working practices including research and audit
  • IT competency
  • Evidence to demonstrate continual professional development
  • Excellent communication skills written and verbal
  • Excellent analytical and influencing skills
  • Able to prioritise workload as changes occur and to simultaneously focus on a particular task to meet set deadlines
  • To be able to assist patients to dress and undress
  • To be able to push, maneuver and assist patients to transfer from wheelchair to examining couch
  • To be able to deal sensitively with anxious patients and relatives attending the department for tests and to answer patient complaints/ queries.
  • To be able to deal with occasional exposure to distressing circumstances
  • To be able to deal with and advise on personal and professional staff issues.
  • To be able to apply concentration in the interpretation and analysis of test data and results, together with a high level of concentration during patient test procedures.
  • To be able to concentrate for prolonged periods when producing service reports, business cases and planning.

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Professional manner
  • To demonstrate the ability to lead and organise a team of staff
  • To be able to combine the demands of leading a team with the commitment to clinical input
  • Ability to form positive working relationships
  • To demonstrate the ability to facilitate changes in practice
  • Flexible and reliable
  • Good previous health record

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: 30 November 2026

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