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Job summary

Main area
Cardiology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (flexible across 7 days)
Job ref
190-1246-DIR
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/04/2026 23:59
Interview date
17/04/2026

Employer heading

NHS

Senior Healthcare Science Practitioner – Invasive/Non-Invasive

NHS AfC: Band 6

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

 

We are looking to recruit a motivated individual to work competently with a multidisciplinary team in the Diagnostic Cardiology Unit.

The individual will be required to perform tasks unsupervised and to assist senior staff as required.

The post holder must be able to participate in non-invasive clinical procedures competently. In addition, the post holder will be required to supervise, train, guide and support staff in the performance of their individual roles and to give support to senior staff members.

The individual will be given the opportunity to post graduate level training in Invasive cardiac physiology and undertake BHRS accreditation.

Main duties of the job

 

  • Support the Invasive and Non-Invasive Diagnostic Cardiology Unit service
  • Perform and interpret a range of non invasive cardiac tests.
  • Lead in exercise tolerance tests and tilt table testing.
  • Analysis of holter monitor data
  • Undertake training in and once deemed competent, independently perform all invasive cardiac investigations
  •   Work toward BHRS accreditation in cardiac devices
  • Undertake on-call commitments once all relevant competencies have been assessed.
  • Verify the quality and accuracy of junior colleagues’ interpretation of test results
  • To maintain personal development.

Working for our organisation

 

The Diagnostic Cardiology Unit at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides an extensive range of non-invasive, invasive and specialist cardiac investigation to the South Yorkshire region. 

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSc(hons) Clinical Physiology (Cardiology) / BSc(hons) Healthcare Science (Cardiology) or equivalent qualification, or near completion
  • Registered or eligible to register with RCCP, AHCS or HCPC
  • Post graduate study in a relevant field or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Immediate Life Support
  • SCST Part I & II, Certificate in Electrocardiography
  • SCST Diploma in Electrocardiography interpretation
  • BHRS written assessment completed

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in providing specialised, unsupervised diagnostic reports to an appropriate level and highlight and urgent findings
  • Experience in undertaking a broad range of non-invasive investigations
  • Experience in invasive cardiac physiology investigations
Desirable criteria
  • Professional membership of relevant professional body obtained by examination
  • Experience in supervision and assessment
  • Experience with pacemaker and ILR implants and follow up
  • Experience working in the cardiac catheter lab

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • Willingness to undertake further education to attain relevant qualifications for the post

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate well with patients and colleagues
  • Excellent ability to prioritise own workload
  • Positive approach to work and ability to work to deadlines
  • Show initiative and be responsive to service needs
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Highly motivated to provide a quality service
  • Be professional at all times
  • Ability to work independently and as a team player
  • Good interpersonal, written and verbal skills
  • Ability to self-educate and continuously improve
  • Excellent IT skills, computer literacy to a high level
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure
  • Must be reliable and have a flexible approach to meet service demands
  • Maintain infection control standards within the department

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Catarina Bem-Haja
Job title
Cath Lab and EP Lead for Cardiac Physiology
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0114 2714315
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