Job summary
- Main area
- Division D - Healthcare Science Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-D-254070
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division D
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/06/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Vascular Scientist
Band 7
Job overview
Clinical Vascular Scientist (Band 7)
A rare opportunity has arisen for an accredited vascular scientist, or a soon-to-qualify STP trainee, to join one of the UK’s leading vascular studies unit’s (VSU) at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Our Department
Based in the Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre at Cambridge University Hospitals, the VSU is a purpose-built, air-conditioned facility opened in 2015. Our dedicated unit includes four scanning rooms, a large open-plan office, and a patient waiting area. We perform complex non-invasive vascular investigations that directly inform patient care across Cambridge and a regional referral network.
Main duties of the job
What You’ll Be Doing
You will independently perform, interpret, and report a range of vascular ultrasound and physiology investigations, including:
• Carotid duplex
• Lower and upper limb arterial and venous scans
• Aortic aneurysm and EVAR surveillance
• Graft surveillance and specialist physiology testing
Your work will span outpatient clinics, wards, theatres, ICUs, and recovery, directly influencing diagnosis and intervention planning.
Professional Development and Engagement
• High quality training and support: current trainees on STP, non-STP and HSST routes
• Protected 20% non-clinical time: For teaching, research, service improvement, audit, and maintaining IQIPS standards
• Active involvement in multi-centre research trials and representation on the CSVS Committees encouraged
• Regular conference participation: support to attend at least one national conference per year and encouraged to submit and present research
• Teaching opportunities: seminars and practical teaching sessions to junior doctors, radiologists and nurses. Promotion of vascular science and healthcare science at Trust, local and regional level.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 1st June 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 24th June 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First or second class honours degree (BSc) in an appropriate scientific discipline
Desirable criteria
- Full accreditation from the Society of Vascular Technology
- Completion of the vascular scientific training pathway
- Postgraduate qualification in related subject
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working independently and as part of a team
- Experience of concentrating over prolonged periods of time
- Experience of analysing and interpreting complex issues, e.g. selecting appropriate diagnosis from a range of options
- At least 2 years experience performing vascular ultrasound investigations
Desirable criteria
- Experience of assessing patients to make informed decisions about appropriateness of test and adapt as necessary
- Experience of performing research or clinical audits
- Postgraduate research in related subject
- Publication of research
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Computer literate (ability to use Microsoft applications including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as standalone databases)
Desirable criteria
- Specialised knowledge of a range of scientific principles related to ultrasound
- Specialised knowledge of anatomy and physiology relating to the peripheral circulation
- Specialised knowledge of vascular imaging and blood flow measurement
- Specialised knowledge of clinical issues and their implications for vascular ultrasound diagnosis
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed physical accuracy and dexterity for precise ultrasound imaging and blood flow measurement
- Highly developed visual and auditory skills to interpret ultrasound images and Doppler spectrum
- Ability to effectively communicate complex information to colleagues from a wide range of disciplines
- Ability to judge appropriate form and level of communication with patients, some of whom may have difficulty understanding, to communicate complex and sometimes distressing information in a sensitive manner
- Ability to take appropriate action when results need to be communicated urgently to medical/surgical specialties
- Ability to manage stress
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind and excellent
- Ability to cope with frequent interruptions whilst performing and reporting complex, difficult scans
- Ability to recognise when imaging is sub-optimal and recommend further investigation within or outside the service
- Ability to recognise and minimise hazards posed by high-risk patients, infected material and electrical hazards
- Ability to maintain optimum scanning posture when scanning patients over prolonged periods and in confined spaces
- Ability to handle and manoeuvre elderly and disabled patients appropriately and following relevant training and guidelines
- Ability to manoeuvre heavy equipment, e.g. ultrasound equipment, couches, wheelchairs and beds
- Ability to deal with aggressive/abusive patients/relatives and to take appropriate action
- Ability to deal with distressing / offensive wounds and ulcers
- Must be conscientious, motivated, highly organised, flexible and assertive with excellent attention to detail
- Must be committed to gain or maintain SVT accreditation
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Robert Elliott
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Vascular Scientist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 348117
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