# Senior Chief Cardiac Physiologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-chief-cardiac-physiologist/62001e51-d3b1-4bac-8863-6dfddd16f403 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-chief-cardiac-physiologist/62001e51-d3b1-4bac-8863-6dfddd16f403.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Great Ormond Street Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Cardiac physiologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive + 10% R&R premium - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover End date 8th Jan 2028) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-21T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-09T11:01:08.774Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital_Children_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Cardiology/Cardiology-v8203016 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8203016?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gosh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Senior Chief Cardiac Physiologist We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Chief Cardiac Physiologist to provide professional leadership across the cardiac physiology service. The post holder will possess extensive knowledge of clinical cardiac physiology services, with a thorough understanding of service demands, workforce planning, and operational management. The successful candidate will combine expert clinical knowledge with strong managerial and leadership skills, ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of services. They will be responsible for overseeing clinical workload management, service development, quality improvement initiatives, staff performance, and operational delivery within a complex healthcare environment. This is a 12-month fixed term position with an additional recruitment and retention enhancement of 10% plus HCA. ### Main duties of the job - Manage the delivery of a highly specialised Clinical Physiology department for the Trust, ensuring that the service is effective and well-co-ordinated - Manage highly complex invasive and non-invasive investigations as an expert practitioner within the context of a multi-disciplinary team. - Ensure clinical appropriate access to the facilities by cardiology departments and by clinical teams across the Trust. - Be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the unit and all relevant duties. - Encourage, implement and take a full role in departmental and individual projects, with a commitment to research based clinical practice. - Participate in the delivery of core and specialist training to staff on a range of subjects relating to Clinical Physiology. - In conjunction with the Lead Clinicians, Service Manager and Associate Director of Operations assist with development and design of the departmental business plan. - Carry out administrative duties related to Clinical Physiology as required, booking appointments, ensuring accurate data entry onto Epic ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below. ### Applicant requirements 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills/Abilities **Essential** - Excellent organisational and time management skills, able to deliver objectives within an agreed timeframe - Ability to use initiative and prioritise own workload and that of junior staff - Strong leadership and team building skills - Proactive approach to quality control and making improvement in efficiency and effectiveness of service - Ability to function in stressful circumstances, assimilating a variety of clinical and managerial information ### Experience/Knowledge **Essential** - Specialist knowledge of Cardiology - Experience of service planning and delivery - Demonstrable skills in first line management - Experience in training staff at all levels - Experience in specialised role within a cardiac department, including a highly specialist level of independent practice - Understanding of HR processes **Desirable** - Budget management experience ### GOSH Culture and Values **Essential** - Collaboration - We work together to deliver safe, consistent, patient-centred care. Respect - We treat everyone with respect, kindness and equity. Curiosity - We stay curious to drive innovation that delivers exceptional patient outcomes. ### Academic/Professional qualification/Training **Essential** - BSc Clinical Physiology – Cardiology - Postgraduate (MSc) certificate in a relevant cardiac speciality e.g. EACVI CHD or BHRS or IBHRE **Desirable** - Professional practice/leadership skills certificate or accreditation ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 723.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10600349) - [our gosh values (pdf, 516.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3097) - [staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 108.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2815) ## 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.