Healthcare Science Practitioner
Posted 4 hours 48 minutes ago by NHS
The closing date is 12 April 2026.
The cardiology department has an exciting opportunity for a band 5, qualified Healthcare Science Practitioner to join our friendly, forward thinking team.
The cardiology department offers a wide range of cardiac services including electrocardiography, ambulatory monitoring and analysis (including 12 lead holder monitoring), head up tilt table testing, exercise tolerance testing, ILR implant and follow- up, complex pacing and electrophysiology including 3D mapping and His bundle pacing.
The department supports hemodynamic monitoring for 4 cardiac catheterisation laboratories, 2 of which are dedicated to pacing and electrophysiology and 2 of which are dedicated to percutaneous coronary intervention and support our busy structural interventional program. The structural heart program at UHNM includes TAVI, percutaneous mitral valve leaflet repair, ASD and VSD closure, paravalvular leak closure, PFO and LAA occlusion.
For newly qualified cardiac scientists we have an established 12 month preceptorship program to support transition in to a qualified role. We will consider applications from trainee cardiac physiologists who have completed a significant proportion of their undergraduate training program. For this post it will be situation across UHNM sites including Royal Stoke University Hospital, County Hospital and the Community Diagnostic Centre.
Main duties of the jobThe main duties of this band 5 role are:
- Support ambulatory monitoring and analysis
- Support physiologist led exercise stress testing (2nd operator)
- Provision of electrocardiography services for outpatients, A&E, inpatients and in community settings
- Provision of hemodynamic monitoring in the cardiac catheterisation laboratories for both percutaneous coronary intervention and structural interventional procedures. Training and support will be provided. At band 5 level catheter lab work is supported by senior colleagues during the working day. There is no out of hours or on call requirement for this role.
- There is an expectation that the successful applicant will contribute to the training and development of junior staff in the department.
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.
Person Specification- Bsc (hons) or equivalent in Cardiac Science
- Registration with the AHCS
- Significant experience in Cardiac Physiology including cardiac catheterisation procedures.
- Professional qualification in cardiac physiology related discipline
- Experience in ambulatory monitoring analysis
- Experience in research
- Recent NHS experience
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust