Affera Regional Clinical Educator in Watford

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology, addressing some of the most complex challenges in modern medicine. Our mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites more than 95,000 employees worldwide. Driven by innovation, we transform ideas into real-world solutions that improve patient outcomes. From research and development to manufacturing and collaboration with clinicians, every team member contributes to delivering life-changing technologies.

In response to the continued expansion of the Affera™ Mapping System and Medtronic’s sustained investment in the Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) portfolio, we are seeking a highly motivated professional with a strong passion for clinical training and talent development to join us as Affera Regional Clinical Educators. This position will focus on driving clinical excellence among Affera Mapping Specialists in the United Kingdom. The ideal candidates will be an experienced educator with the ability to assess individual competencies and design tailored training programmes, ensuring the field team is fully equipped to deliver best-in-class support during the rollout of the Affera system and other electrophysiology technologies across the UK. This role combines advanced expertise in electrophysiology and cardiac mapping with strong training and educational capabilities, offering a highly impactful and rewarding opportunity.

The Affera Regional Clinical Educators will report to the Affera Clinical Lead, NWE – Cardiac Ablation Solutions. You will need a full, clean driving licence and willingness to travel.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Partner with UK & Ireland Sales and Marketing teams, along with Affera Regional Clinical Managers, to drive utilisation of the Affera Mapping System and broader CAS portfolio through in-field training, coaching, and ongoing clinical support.
• Spend approximately 80% of time in the field, focusing on capability development through site visits, structured training delivery, performance coaching, feedback, and reinforcement of best practice standards.
• Identify, develop, and disseminate clinical best practices while defining and promoting key success factors across the region.
• Communicate and cascade relevant clinical data in alignment with the overarching marketing and clinical strategy.
• Monitor competitor activity and contribute to the development of strategies that strengthen competitive positioning and field effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with the Training & Education team and Clinical Excellence Manager to ensure consistency and alignment of training standards and initiatives.
• Lead the distribution and effective cascade of training materials developed by global and European teams.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required; a degree in Science or Medical Engineering is preferred.
• Typically, 4+ years of relevant experience as an EP Cardiac Physiologist or in a clinical/technical role within Cardiac Electrophysiology.
• Strong understanding of electrophysiology (EP) and ablation technologies, including their clinical applications.
• Hands-on clinical EP experience, including expertise in 3D mapping systems and independent support of both routine and complex EP procedures.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities and strong team collaboration skills.
• Self-motivated, organised, and proactive, with the ability to operate autonomously and support both technical and commercial objectives.
• Professional accreditation (e.g., IBHRE, EHRA, BHRS) is advantageous.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. Pay range: United Kingdom: 68,640.00 GBP - 102,960.00 GBP.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart — putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world.
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities.
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning.

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

• Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
• Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
• Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
• Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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