Employer The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trustwide Town 317 Trustwide Salary £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 28/12/2025 23:59 Interview date 21/01/2026
Band 7
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, w e’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to lead our busy and dynamic Echocardiography Team at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Our internationally renowned Cardiothoracic Directorate provides secondary and tertiary Cardiac and transplantation services to the North of England and beyond. The successful applicant will therefore be working at the cutting edge of Echocardiography which a department which has a strong emphasis on individual professional development.
* Interview Date: 21st January 2026
* Flexible Full and Part Time Hours Available
* You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
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Main duties of the job
We are proud to be able to offer opportunities for our workforce that shows value to the skillset working in a tertiary centre can provide and we are committed to the investment in the future of physiology services. Your continued development from basic physiology knowledge to become a specialist in your field, by providing new experiences and exposure to complex procedures, is paramount to our future plans for this growing team.
The department is split over two sites and successful applicants will be expected to rotate between sites. The department is BSE accredited and we currently offer a physiologist led valve clinic and are developing a physiologist led bubble/contrast service.
Applicants must have relevant transthoracic Echocardiography experience and be British Society of Echocardiography Accredited with the ability to work independently in the performance and reporting of transthoracic Echocardiograms.
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
* Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Leads a designated area of practice within the cardiac rhythm management section and delivers a specialist clinical service e.g. autonomous role in running pacemaker and ICD follow-up clinics.
* Assists in developing, implementing, and monitoring clinical and organisational strategies within areas of expertise
* Maintains and develops high standards of service provision throughout their area of responsibility.
* Contributes to service and staff development including performing annual appraisals
* Participate as required in the on-call rota to provide a 24-hour emergency service
for pacing /ICD problems for adult and paediatric patients.
* Responsible for electronic staff rostering and ensuring staffing is adequate for service need
* To train a wide variety of staff groups in the specialist techniques of pacing.
* To develop the highly specialised technical aspects of Bi ventricular pacing and defibrillator implantation and optimization, as well as the existing multisite pacing service.
* To be flexible in working within other areas when service needs demand
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
* MSc in Clinical Physiology, HNC / Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement or equivalent experience
* Specialised postgraduate examinations i.e. BHRS
* Previous experience at a Senior Clinical Physiologist level including extensive training and experience within area of speciality (Masters level equivalent).
* RCCP state registration [Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists] or equivalent (HCPC or AHCS)
* Recent clinical experience within area of speciality
* Experience and knowledge in all areas of non-invasive and invasive Cardiology.
Knowledge & Experience
* Extensive experience within highly specialised area, providing leadership, guidance, and detailed advice to all other rotational and specialised Clinical Physiologists.
* To provide and coordinate the Cardiac Rhythm Management Service
* To organise the running and rotation of staff within the CRM Department.
* To provide and develop the multisite pacemaker implantation and technically led follow up service
* To provide and develop the ICD and Bi Ventricular implantation, optimisation and technically led follow up service.
* To develop and implement training programs in pacing for Clinical Physiologists at Freeman Hospital in order to provide a high-quality service to the cardiothoracic team.
* To provide training to staff groups on a regional basis in all aspects of pacing.
* To participate in the teaching of the degree course in Clinical Physiology and to prepare and assist in the assessment of trainees to the required level.
* To play an active part in research projects carried out at Freeman Hospital.
* Research and Development experience
* Experience of leading a team
Skills & Abilities
* Regular communication with all medical staff, nurses, patients, relatives, and carers
* Analysis and accurate conveyance of highly complex, sensitive, and possible contentious diagnostic information either verbally or by report to all levels of medical staff including Senior Registrars Consultants Cardiologists and Surgeons.
* To explain full range of complex non-invasive tests and effect of internal device implantation to adult and paediatric patients.
* Persuasive and motivational skills essential for influencing patients undergoing exercise and long-term monitoring procedures, with precise instructions needed to obtain maximum results in all areas.
* Relate factual information to often anxious and upset relatives regarding departmental examinations and procedures
* Perceptive and tactful conveyance of information in relation to emotive patient and relative questioning regarding extremely delicate test results obtained.
* Extensive perceptive and tactful conveyance of information in relation to emotive patient and relative questioning regarding extremely delicate test results obtained.
* Ability to empathise and console emotional patients clearly unwell or with life threatening defects.
* To accommodate all patients with disabilities whether bed bound, in wheelchairs or with learning, language or behavioural difficulties.
* Regular teaching to small regional groups, medical staff
Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
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