Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Echocardiographer to join the Cardiac Physiology team in Nottingham. You will deliver high‑quality echo studies, support advanced imaging, and help develop junior staff.

If you’re BSE accredited and have an interest in congenital echo, we’d love to hear from you. You will work across sites, participate in an out‑of‑hours service, and contribute to teaching and CPD.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in high quality transthoracic echo, including advanced techniques.
• Experience in training junior staff and clinicians.
• CPD evidence; interest in congenital echo is welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality echo studies from standard TTE to advanced techniques.
• Train junior team members and contribute to clinical teaching.
• Assist leadership in daily management and act as a role model.

Skills

Echocardiography

Training

Teaching

Staff development

Education

MSc/MSCT

BSE or equivalent

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

Main area Cardiology Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full time (37.5/week)) Job ref 164-8172609

Site Trust Wide Town Nottingham Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 15/09/2026 23:59

Job overview

We’re looking for a skilled Band 7 Echocardiographer to join our growing Cardiac Physiology team in Nottingham.

You’ll deliver high‑quality echo services, support advanced imaging, and help develop junior staff. If you’re BSE accredited and want to make a real impact in a supportive, forward‑thinking department, we’d love to hear from you. We are particularly interested to hear from those with experience or interest in congenital echo.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.

As a highly specialised physiologist your main duties will be the provision of high quality echo studies ranging from standard TTE to advanced techniques such as stress echo and congenital echo.

You will also play an active role in the training program at NUH, providing quality practical and theoretical teaching to junior team members and clinical colleagues.

As a band 7 physiologist you will assist the echo leads and head of service in daily management of the team and act as a role model for colleagues.

This is a Trust wide post and the successful candidate will be expected to work at both our hospitals and the Nottingham CDC. You will also be required to participate in the provision of the out of hours emergency echo service across both sites.

Working for our organisation

The echo team at NUH are a friendly, experienced and highly skilled group of physiologists with a wide range of experience in different echo specialities. We are supported by our team of adult imaging and paediatric consultants and work closely with them to provide and develop a high quality service.

The department holds twice weekly consultant led review meetings, bi monthly time out sessions for CPD and a yearly BSE accredited echo training day. You will also be supported to attend national courses and conferences.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Providing basic and advanced transthoracic echo reports to a high standard.

Training of junior team members and clinicians.

Experience in a range of diagnostics is desirable in order for you to support and advise colleagues when required.

Please see job description for full details of the role responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications/Experience

• Achieved Qualifications/years experience
• MSc/MSCT

Post Graduate Qualification

• BSE or equivalent
• Evidence/demonstrated first line management experience.

Continued Prof Development

• Evidence/demonstrated CPD
• Advanced echo experience

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

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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.