Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist - Echocardiography

Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist - Echocardiography

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Cardiac Physiology Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months ((Maternity Cover) - Monday - Friday 4 day working week) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (4 day week Monday - Friday) Job ref 230-36782466-PCD-C

Site George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Town Nuneaton Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/11/2026 23:59

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

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Job overview

Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist - Echocardiography

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

Fixed term for 12 months (Maternity Cover)

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.

Working for our organisation

Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically- led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:

Excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 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 ensure that personal knowledge base is current to reflect change in clinical echocardiography. Leading CPD of junior staff.
• 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.

Clinical - Specialist Technical

• To undertake a range of cardiac clinical procedures to aid diagnosis and treatment ofreferred patients to include -
  • To record and interpret resting adult electrocardiograms.
  • To prepare, fit and remove 24 hour cardiac and blood pressure monitors.
  • To issue long term monitoring equipment, programming the device appropriate to patient symptoms
  • To be clinical lead during cardiac exercise tests, performing and interpreting in accordance with British Cardiac Society guidelines and department standards. To produce a diagnostic report.
  • To provide Cardiac Physiologist support during routine/ elective angiography

Other Requirements:

• To undertake duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• To analyse and interpret data, using specialist theoretical knowledge and experience, to produce procedure results and reports, which contribute to patient diagnosis and treatment.
• To communicate with medical and nursing staff to provide effective services for patient care, and to inform/alert them of any patients requiring immediate or urgent attention following interpretation and analysis of test results.
• To assess patients’ physical and mental abilities to perform and follow test procedures, and to use persuasive, motivation and reassurance skills to achieve optimum diagnostic results.
• To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating.
• To manage clinical risk and take responsibility for patient safety during test procedures. This may include initiating and leading Immediate Life Support.
• To provide specialised advice and instruction to patients, relatives, carers and other professionals on the use of loan equipment and to promote understanding of cardiac services.
• To have specialist knowledge and skills in the use and application of relevant equipment and to be responsible for your own and others safe and competent use of that equipment.
• To take appropriate action on unsafe/malfunctioning equipment.
• To follow departmental, Trust and manufacturers protocols and guidelines in the decontamination and sterilisation of equipment to ensure compliance with Health and Safety standards.
• To undertake any new technical developments and associated services and be prepared to participate in an on-call rota or flexible shift patterns to accommodate changing trends in health care.
• To participate in any department research, clinical trials or audit.

Professional:

• To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through CPD activities, and to maintain a portfolio which reflects personal development.
• To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence based practice and incorporate new developments into your area of work.
• To participate in staff Individual Performance Review (IPR) appraisal scheme and be responsible for complying with your agreed personal development program to meet set knowledge and competencies.
• To attend and participate in in-service training programs, individual training sessions and external courses as expected/identified at IPR.
• To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and risk management and to apply to the work situation.

Organisational:

• To work in accordance with Trust and department policies and standards.
• To ensure that own practice meets the required professional standards of specialist expertise.
• To attend mandatory training sessions as determined by the Trust.
• To record activity by updating databases to enable performance monitoring.

Relationships

Internal:

• Department colleagues
• Patients and relatives
• Directorate managers
• Consultants and teams
• Ward managers and staff
• Finance and purchasing managers
• Stores and housekeeping
• PALS
• Information
• Complaints

External:

• Patients and relatives/carers
• CCG
• GP’s within locality
• Voluntary/ charitable organisations

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and person specification attached.

Person specification

Qualification and Professional Traing

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

Experience and Knowledge

• 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 • 3d Echo • 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
• Experience of Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation process

Skills and Abilities

• 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
• 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

• 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

Please note:

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC where all subsequent information regarding your application will be generated. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages via the NHS Jobs website. Furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any emails/messages sent to us via the NHS Jobs website.

By applying for this post you are consenting to George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system, TRAC.

The Job application data you provide will be used to assess your application for employment at GEH, to verify your information and conduct reference checks, and to communicate with you. If you accept employment with GEH, the information collected will become part of your employment record and will be used for employment purposes.

All information provided will be used for recruitment purposes only and processed in a lawful, fair and transparent manner.

Other:

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.

In response to NICE guidance and to support the reduction of health harm from tobacco, the Trust has a smoke-free site policy which applies to anyone on Trust sites. Staff who smoke will be supported to quit or not smoke whilst on Trust sites.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees as they are at the heart of our patients journey. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued, respected, empowered and included within an organisation that is representative of all members of the community. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – taking pride in that we value employees, job applicants, students, volunteers, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our excel behaviours with a vision to create a workplace that represents a culture of kindness, joy and inclusion.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.