Senior Cardiac Physiologist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 06 May 2025

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and driven individual to join our team. We are an innovative and stimulating department, 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. We have excellent links with Health Education England BHRS and BSE. We empower our physiologists and offer development into Physiologist Lead Services.

We have a thriving Cardiac Rhythm Management service with regular hybrid clinics involving a specialist CRM consultant and specialist cardiac physiologist. We also have an established support group for our patients and have been shortlisted for awards recognising quality improvement and innovation.

We run a catheter laboratory offering diagnostic angiography and implant of pacemakers and defibrillators. We also 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.

Main duties of the job

To be successful in your application you should have specialist knowledge in a range of diagnostics preformed within cardiology including interpretation of 12 lead ECGs and ambulatory monitors. You must act as a senior physiologist undertaking training of other physiologists or staff groups when required. You should act as a role model to others adopting an inclusive and supportive leadership style.

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.

Date posted

22 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-7121108SC

Job locations

Wansbeck General Hospital

Woodhorn Lane

Ashington

NE63 9JJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Required to perform, supervise and report a broad range of cardiac investigations including 12 Lead Electrocardiographs (ECG), fit and remove 24 hour Ambulatory ECG Monitors, Event Recorders and 24 hour Blood Pressure Monitors (with ECG), Exercise Tolerance Testing (ETT), Ambulatory ECG Analysis, Event Recorder Analysis.

Pacemaker implants and follow up clinics on both in-patients and out patients.

Willingness to be trained in adult echocardiography.

Training of junior technical staff.

To provide technical leadership to ensure highest standards of skill, interpretation, reporting and treatments are developed and maintained within resource constraints.

To maintain confidentiality at all times.

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

Pacemaker implants and follow up clinics on both in-patients and out patients.

Willingness to be trained in adult echocardiography.

Training of junior technical staff.

To provide technical leadership to ensure highest standards of skill, interpretation, reporting and treatments are developed and maintained within resource constraints.

To maintain confidentiality at all times.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Formal training through Clinical Physiology degree, extensive post qualification experience
Relevant professional courses and qualifications e.g. interpretation, Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Techniques and Practice, Cardiac pacing courses including dual chamber optimization and basic echocardiography
NVQ D32 Assessors qualification or equivalent to assess degree students

Desirable

ALS qualification

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Formal training through Clinical Physiology degree, extensive post qualification experience
Relevant professional courses and qualifications e.g. interpretation, Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Techniques and Practice, Cardiac pacing courses including dual chamber optimization and basic echocardiography
NVQ D32 Assessors qualification or equivalent to assess degree students

Desirable

ALS qualification

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).