• Job Description

  Req#: C9319-25-0532?language=en&page=588&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  The Cardiac Investigations team are looking to appoint a new Chief Cardiac Physiologist on a permanent basis.

  We are looking for an enthusiastic and driven individual to join our team. We are an innovative and stimulating department to work in, offering high quality, safe and compassionate care to patients are their relatives. We deliver high quality training and have recently been awarded Training Hospital of the Year by BJCA as well as having a member of our echo team receiving an individual award for best trainer. Our team also benefit from excellent links with Health Education England and BSE. We empower our physiologists and offer development into physiologist lead services e.g. Contrast Echo. We also offer specialist services such as stress echocardiography, TOE and 4D imaging.

  We offer regular support to allied accreditation bodies such as Heart Rhythm Society and British Society of Echocardiography and have highly skilled staff who have represented us at their associated national conferences.

  Please note: this role may require assessment centre or psychometric test.

  Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

  Main duties of the job

  • Assist in ensuring the delivery of high quality Cardiology technical services, working in line with National Service Framework (NSF) recommendations.
  • To deputise in the absence of the department head to manage a team within the Cardiology department, including clerical staff, Assistant Technical Officers (ATOs), Senior Assistant Technical Officers (SATOs) as well as basic, senior and chief cardiac physiologists.
  • Undertakes advanced practice cardiac tests and procedures, interprets results, provides report and informs the clinician.
  • Undertake clinical supervision and training for trainee staff and other professionals.
  • Act as expert resource for technical Cardiology issues to both primary and secondary care.
  • Carries out research and development activities within department, including trial of new equipment.

  About us

  We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

  Details

  Date posted

  22 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £46,148 to £52,809 a year pro rata per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  319-7177560SC

  Job locations

  Wansbeck General Hospital

  Woodhorn Lane

  Ashington

  NE63 9JJ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  To assist in the establishment, co-ordination and delivery of cardiology technical services for Cardiology patients across the Northumbria Trust requiring electrocardiograph(ECG), exercise tolerance test(ETT), echocardiography including stress and contrast enhanced imaging modalities and ambulatory monitoring.

  To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  To assist in the establishment, co-ordination and delivery of cardiology technical services for Cardiology patients across the Northumbria Trust requiring electrocardiograph(ECG), exercise tolerance test(ETT), echocardiography including stress and contrast enhanced imaging modalities and ambulatory monitoring.

  To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

  Person Specification

  essential

  Essential

  • 1st or 2:1 in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific subject (examples include Pure or Applied Physics, Biology or Human Biology, or Sports Science (if significant scientific content) or equivalent experience and appropriate underpinning knowledge and skills in cardiology.
  • ILS certificate
  • Expert with a high level of professional and Clinical knowledge acquired through formal training via PG Cert in Echocardiography or equivalent Must have attained formal BSE accreditation and passed practical examination
  • PG Cert in Echocardiography or evidence of equivalent formal training portfolio
  • Registered Physiologist with the registration council for Clinical Physiologists or the Academy for Health Care Sciences or plan to seek equivalence in the future
  • Immediate Life Support skills and current certificate

  Desirable

  • Registered Physiologist with the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP) or the Academy for Health Care Sciences (AHCS)
  • D32/33/34 NVQ Assessor or Mentorship certificate (Not Required for Bank Staff)

  Person Specification

  essential

  Essential

  • 1st or 2:1 in Cardiac Physiology (PTP) or a relevant scientific subject (examples include Pure or Applied Physics, Biology or Human Biology, or Sports Science (if significant scientific content) or equivalent experience and appropriate underpinning knowledge and skills in cardiology.
  • ILS certificate
  • Expert with a high level of professional and Clinical knowledge acquired through formal training via PG Cert in Echocardiography or equivalent Must have attained formal BSE accreditation and passed practical examination
  • PG Cert in Echocardiography or evidence of equivalent formal training portfolio
  • Registered Physiologist with the registration council for Clinical Physiologists or the Academy for Health Care Sciences or plan to seek equivalence in the future
  • Immediate Life Support skills and current certificate

  Desirable

  • Registered Physiologist with the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP) or the Academy for Health Care Sciences (AHCS)
  • D32/33/34 NVQ Assessor or Mentorship certificate (Not Required for Bank Staff)

  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).

  Additional information

  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).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Wansbeck General Hospital

  Woodhorn Lane

  Ashington

  NE63 9JJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Wansbeck General Hospital

  Woodhorn Lane

  Ashington

  NE63 9JJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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