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Main area
Cardiac Healthcare Scientist
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On call commitment for emergency cath lab work)
Job ref
205-7882976
Employer
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Stoke Hospital
Town
Stoke-on-Trent
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/04/2026 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Senior Healthcare Scientist

Band 6

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 Healthcare Scientist to join our established team of Healthcare Scientists at UHNM. 

Main duties of the job

This role will involve contributing to the appended band 6 duties in the department including, heamodynamic monitoring during cardiac catheterisation for both elective & emergency procedures. The successful candidate will  be expected to lead exercise tests, head up tilt table tests & provide advanced arrhythmia analysis for implantable loop recorders, holter monitors (3 & 12 lead), event recorder devices & 12 lead ECG. Additionally, there is an expectation that the successful candidate will support the departmental on call service for primary percutaneous coronary intervention. There will  be opportunities for the right candidate to advance their skills in either cardiac rhythm management or echocardiography. The echocardiography department provides c24,000 studies per year. There are well established physiologist led services within echo,  including stress echo, TOE, Contrast, Herceptin Clinics and Heart valve surveillance clinics.  The pacing and EP services provide complex and simple device implant and follow-up and a full range of EP studies including complex 3D mapping. 

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. We serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. The Trust has around 1,450 inpatient beds across two sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.

We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales. We have put together a wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us. We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours. We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working. You can select your preferences upon application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Bsc (hons) in Healthcare Science - Cardiac Physiology
Desirable criteria
  • Postgraduate qualification in cardiac science
  • HCPC / AHCS professional registration

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Post graduate experience in ECG analysis and reporting
  • Post qualification experience in cardiac catheterisation procedures
  • Post qualification experience in exercise ECG testing
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in the application or implementation of quality procedures

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Cheryl Oxley
Job title
Clinical Scientist & Cardiac Physiology Serv Man
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01782 675409
Additional information

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