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Job summary
Are you an ambitious Cardiac Physiologist looking to take the next step in your career? If you are looking for a role where you can work autonomously, expand your specialist skills, influence service delivery and be part of a forward-thinking team, we would welcome your application. We are pleased to offer three exciting Band 6 roles: 2 x Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiography) 1 x Cardiac Physiologist (Cardiac Rhythm Management Device Services) Whether your passion is Echocardiography or Cardiac Rhythm Management, LTHT can offer you exceptional opportunities to develop your career beyond the scope of smaller organisations.
Main duties of the job
Criteria: Qualifications: BSc in Cardiac Physiology, STP, PTP or equivalent Professional Registration: HCPC or AHCS registered or can demonstrate the ability to gain this within 6 months. Accreditation: BSE, BHRS/EHRA as applicable or are working towards Experience and knowledge in the relevant specialist area Communication Quality improvement/service development Leadership Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.
Details
- Date posted: 13 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 001808
- Job locations: Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 3EX, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
Are you an ambitious Cardiac Physiologist looking to take the next step in your career? If you are looking for a role where you can work autonomously, expand your specialist skills, influence service delivery and be part of a forward-thinking team, we would welcome your application.
We are pleased to offer three exciting Band 6 roles:
2 x Cardiac Physiologist (Echocardiography)
1 x Cardiac Physiologist (Cardiac Rhythm Management – Device Services)
Whether your passion is Echocardiography or Cardiac Rhythm Management, LTHT can offer you exceptional opportunities to develop your career beyond the scope of smaller organisations.
What we offer:
- Exposure to complex and rare cardiac pathology.
- Opportunities to develop specialist expertise.
- A structured programme of education, mentorship and professional development, with support towards relevant accreditation and developing advanced practice.
- Opportunities to contribute to research, innovation, service improvement and quality initiatives.
- Clear career progression through supported education, mentorship, competency-based development and access to specialist multidisciplinary teams; you will have opportunities to expand your clinical expertise, gain advanced competencies and progress into senior specialist and leadership roles.
Why you should join our Team
Echocardiography (2 Posts)
Our Echocardiography Department provides specialist imaging for patients with complex cardiac conditions; supporting diagnosis, management and ongoing surveillance through routine and advanced echocardiography techniques and physiology-led services. Our sonographers are encouraged to develop specialist expertise in 3D/4D, Contrast/Bubble and myocardial deformation Strain imaging and to use them routinely.
The successful candidate will independently perform and report adult TTE, assist with imaging in TOE, provide TTE during transcatheter interventional procedures in a Cath lab environment and will help with teaching, training and development of students within the clinical environment. They will be supported to develop expertise in advanced imaging techniques through structured training and supervised specialist practice.
Cardiac Rhythm Management – Device Service (1 Post)
Our CRM/Device Service is well established and continually evolving, providing specialist care for patients with implanted cardiac rhythm management devices including pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) systems.
The successful candidate will undertake independent device follow-up clinics, device interrogation and programming, remote monitoring and inpatient device assessments, working collaboratively with electrophysiology and heart failure teams. The post offers an excellent opportunity to work within a busy tertiary CRM service with exposure to complex device therapies with the support of a highly specialised workforce.
Successful candidates for both roles will be enthusiastic, motivated and forward-thinking individuals who are committed to delivering excellent cardiac care. They will be able to demonstrate strong clinical skills, a passion for continuous development and the ability to work confidently both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
The Trust has 5 main sites and candidates should be willing to work where required on a rotational basis.
If you have any questions about the roles or would like to arrange an informal visit please contact Phil Durkin, p.durkin1@nhs.net (CRM), or Hilary Jessop, hilary.jessop@nhs.net (Echo).
What you will bring to the role
Criteria:
Qualifications: BSc in Cardiac Physiology, STP, PTP or equivalent
Professional Registration: HCPC or AHCS registered or can demonstrate the ability to gain this within 6 months.
Accreditation: BSE, BHRS/EHRA as applicable or are working towards
Experience and knowledge in the relevant specialist area
Communication
Quality improvement/service development
Leadership
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
For questions about this job, contact:
If you have any questions about the roles or would like to arrange an informal visit please contact Phil Durkin, p.durkin1@nhs.net (CRM), or Hilary Jessop, hilary.jessop@nhs.net (Echo). Shortlisting Date: 25th August 2026 Interview Date: 15th September 2026
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our Trust values
The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.
We are….
Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind
Our Trust priorities
Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
Our priorities:
People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Maintains and develops current knowledge of evidence based practice in each clinical area.
- Knowledge of local Trust Policies.
- Works as an autonomous practitioner within established departmental Standard Operating Procedures and codes of practice.
- Demonstrates personal duty of care for safe use of expensive and highly complex equipment and reports equipment faults in accordance with departmental policy.
- The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions.
Desirable
- Knowledge of specialist cardiac investigations and techniques at postgraduate level.
Experience
Essential
- Experience and knowledge of specialist cardiac investigations and techniques at postgraduate level.
- Regularly provides training in fundamental cardiac techniques to Trainee Cardiac Physiologists and junior staff members.
- Responsible for formal mentorship and input into coordination of training of designated junior staff and students.
- Frequently undertakes collection of data for use in audit, research projects and equipment testing.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Compassionate and caring.
- Capable of lateral thinking.
- Motivator of self and others.
- Positive approach to change.
- Assertive.
- Courageous.
- Flexible.
- Adaptable.
- Able to manage stress in self and others.
- Listens to, communicates with, values and acknowledges contributions from others.
- Enjoys a challenge with ability to manage change.
- Seeks and welcomes feedback from others and actively develops using reflective practice.
- Diplomatic, self motivated and enthusiastic with a professional attitude.
- Committed to personal development.
- Relates well to people at all levels and different backgrounds showing tolerance and patience towards others.
- A good team player, with the ability to work flexibly in a diverse and demanding environment.
- Commitment to delivering high quality evidence-based care, including accepting the need for change and open to new ideas of working and service adaptations.
- Commitment to working in a multi-disciplinary team and maintaining a positive attitude.
- Commitment to the specialty area, valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and creative working environment.
- Commitment to own personal and professional development and to the development of others within the team.
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Maintain professional registration; RCCP, AHCS, HCPC.
- Undertakes Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in accordance with Personal Development Plan (PDP) as developed with Line Manager.
- The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
Desirable
- Achieving professional exams/membership appropriate to clinical area, e.g. BHRS, BSE etc.
- Participation in in-service training programmes, tutorials, individual training sessions, external courses and peer review.
Clinical and Professional Skills
Essential
- To undertake a broad range of fundamental and complex cardiac investigations and following analysis and interpretation of physiological data, provides accurate and factual reports.
- Calibrates and manipulates a wide range of complex, expensive technical equipment which processes, creates, updates and stores information.
- Demonstrates the ability to prioritise and organise the clinical caseload within a designated area of cardiology.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Requires a high level of manual dexterity and good hand to eye coordination in order to ensure the accurate application of a range of diagnostic tools.
- Requires a high level of sensory coordination in order to immediately recognise life threatening physiological signs and then respond appropriately.
- Communicates with all members of the multidisciplinary team and trust-wide staff to ensure the best possible care for patients by using negotiating, reassurance and persuasiveness skills.
- Communicates information about routine and complex cardiac investigations to patients and relatives/carers including children and those with learning and/or physical disabilities.
- Provides clinical technical advice to patients, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team both within and outside the cardiology department.
- Participates in the on-call rota (7day/24hour) for acute emergencies in the Cardiac Catheter Lab and/or for those with implantable cardiac devices and performs clinical duties out of hours.
- Ability to work flexibly in a diverse and demanding environment.
Desirable
- Clinical investigations may include: Advanced ECG assessments/calculations; Ambulatory and remote monitoring analysis; Cardiac angiography/intervention and heamodynamic assessment, both adult and paediatric; Cardiac ultrasound imaging; Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise (CPX); Electrophysiology studies; Permanent Pacemaker (PPM) and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD's) implantations; Physiologist led PPM and ICD follow-up; Physiologist led and medically supervised exercise testing; Temporary pacemaker insertions; Therapeutic radiofrequency ablations; Tilt testing.
Other Requirements and Working Conditions
Essential
- To comply with the Trust's manual handling policy at all times.
- Frequent transferring of patients and equipment on both trolleys and wheelchairs.
- Required to exert moderate physical effort, including CPR.
- Participate in the 24/7 on call service for cardiac catheter labs and/or cardiac rhythm management service.
- Deals sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility.
- All staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users.
- Complying at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident Reporting system.
Desirable
- Occasional need to take hospital equipment 'off-site' e.g. home environment to support domiciliary visits, including patient homes, care homes and funeral homes.
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