# Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist - Echocardiography > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialised-cardiac-physiologist-echocardiography/7442b646-61cf-4dc4-8cb9-36ba0f07ffeb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialised-cardiac-physiologist-echocardiography/7442b646-61cf-4dc4-8cb9-36ba0f07ffeb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - **Town:** Worcester - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Health science services - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 to £56,515 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time, Flexible working - **Closing date:** 2026-08-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-22T14:56:50.016Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9365-26-0565?employerCode=C9365 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/C9365-26-0565/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=C9365-26-0565 - **Employer website:** https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Band 7 Cardiac Physiologist to join our friendly and dynamic Cardiology team. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled echocardiographer to play a key role in delivering a high-quality, patient-centred diagnostic service. The successful candidate will independently perform and report a comprehensive range of adult transthoracic echocardiograms to a high professional standard, including complex pathology, in accordance with current professional guidelines and departmental protocols. You will work autonomously, making clinical judgements and communicating significant findings appropriately to the multidisciplinary team to support timely patient management. You will contribute to the continued development of the echocardiography service. You will also support the education, training of junior physiologists, students, and other healthcare professionals, acting as a clinical role model within the department. The post holder will work closely with cardiologists, specialist nurses, and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a safe, efficient, and responsive diagnostic service across inpatient and outpatient settings. This role offers the opportunity to work within a supportive department committed to delivering high-quality cardiac diagnostics and continuous service development, while providing excellent opportunities for ongoing professional growth. ### Main duties of the job To independently perform high quality adult TTE, including complex studies, utilising available modalities: including 4D, Strain and Speckle tracking. To assist Cardiologists with complex procedures, including TOE, stress echo, bubble studies and LV contrast studies. To provide clear, accurate and factual reports to clinicians on all investigations undertaken, these will be used for diagnosis and to guide medical / surgical management of the patients condition. Maintain continued professional development, update skills and knowledge and retain BSE accreditation. Engage in training and develop skills and knowledge, in line with the service needs as the department expands and implement new services. Be flexible and adaptable to changes in service needs. Participate in the '7-day week' working rota to meet service needs.To maintain accurate patient records. ### About us Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond. The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them. We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do. Being open and honest Ensuring people feel cared for Showing respect to everyone We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System. We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer. DBS Checks and Costs Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs. ### Details - Date posted: 22 July 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 7 - Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working - Reference number: C9365-26-0565 - Job locations: Alexandra Hospital, Woodrow Drive, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 7UB, United Kingdom, Kidderminster General Hospital, Bewdley Road, KIDDERMINSTER, Worcestershire, DY11 6RJ, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities See attached full JD. To independently perform and report complex adult echocardiograms in line with BSE and departmental guidelines and appropriately escalate findings contributing to timely diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. To provide technical support to Cardiologists in specialist services such as Stress Echo and TOE. Training will be provided if necessary. To provide education, training and development for all aspects of the service to junior members of staff and registrars. To advise junior medical staff on the availability, selection and appropriateness of test procedures To practise with a high level of skill and autonomy a range of other cardiac physiology procedures and be expected to perform them if required. To communicate complex instructions and clinical information effectively to all categories of patients, ensuring co-operation and compliance to obtain accurate technical and clinical data To visual and verbal risk-assess every patient prior to carrying out any clinical investigations. To initiate Basic Life Support and Immediate Life Support (ILS) when required To ensure safe use of specialist / diagnostic equipment used by self and others To report all untoward events or uncertainties to the Head of Department To work at all times in a safe and responsible manner This post has no budgetary responsibility To participate in any other duties deemed relevant by cardiopulmonary department manager. To plan and prioritise personal workloads according to daily staffing levels ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience as a Specialised Cardiac Physiologist. - Highly specialised and advanced knowledge of Echocardiography. **Desirable** - Supervision of staff - Assist with the day to day - running of the department. - Teaching and development of staff ### Qualifications **Essential** - Degree in Clinical Physiology or equivalent - British Society of Echo accreditation or equivalent **Desirable** - ASCST (parts 1 & 2) or equivalent - ILS certificate - Registration for RCCP ## Documents - [Job Description (DOCX, 233 KB)](document:2999828) - [Person Specification (DOCX, 227 KB)](document:2999829) - [DBS Applicant Costs Infomation (PDF, 154 KB)](document:2999830) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.