Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- Band 8A + 15% RRP
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2582
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust Wide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £66,274 - £73,496 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Cardiac Physiologist - Stress Echo and Practice Educator
Band 8A + 15% RRP
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Looking to take your echocardiography career to the next level with one of the most prestigious NHS Trusts in the country?
At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we’re driven by a clear mission: to deliver world-class healthcare through cutting-edge research, education, and training. Now, we're inviting echocardiographers to join our friendly, expert team in the renowned echocardiography department.
We are seeking a stress echocardiography-accredited Clinical Scientist with a strong track record in delivering echocardiography education to join our forward-thinking department, where innovation and excellence are central to everything we do.
This role combines clinical practice in stress echocardiography with the delivery of education and training for all echocardiography trainees across Imperial, with approximately 60% of the role dedicated to clinical practice and 40% to education delivery.
As part of a comprehensive cardiac diagnostics service, you will play a key role in delivering the full spectrum of echocardiographic investigations, from routine 3D imaging and myocardial strain analysis to advanced stress echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) in support of structural heart interventions.
Main duties of the job
- Independently lead exercise stress-echocardiography lists in a range if patient cohorts.
- Oversee the development and delivery of echocardiography education programmes and materials.
- Independently interpret findings and issue final clinically diagnostic reports to a highly competent professional standard.
- Supervising, training, and providing informal teaching to multidisciplinary staff in echocardiography techniques.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.
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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Clinical scientist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- BSE accreditation in both adult and stress-echocardiography
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development Education
- ILS certified
Desirable criteria
- PhD or working towards a higher degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience at a supervisory level in specialist area. Experience of training scientific and medical staff. High level of knowledge of all aspects of specialist subject. Evidence of active CPD.
- High level of clinical competence in stress-echocardiography and ability to supervise staff in specialist section of the cardiac science/cardiac physiology with upto-date knowledge of current trends in cardiac research and practice.
- Informal teaching of complex physiological concepts on a one to one basis
- Competence in PC word processing, spreadsheet and database software. Good written and oral communication skills.
Desirable criteria
- Significant managerial experience with post-grad management qualifications.
- Peer reviewed research Publications
- Experience of conducting audits of echocardiography services
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Both effective independent and team worker.
- Ability to train staff in the postholder’s Specialist field.
- Ability to innovate practice developments and advances in the field of Echocardiography.
- Ability to cope with the pressures and stresses of the daily demands of a busy front-line clinical technical services.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of conducting service-level improvement projects with incorporated audits and demonstrable outcome data
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shaun Robinson
- Job title
- Consultant clinical scientist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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