Job Description

Highly Specialised Cardiac Healthcare Scientist/ Clinical Scientist - Cardiac Rhythm Management
37.5 hours per week (4 day week: Monday - Friday)
Permanent
Salary: 37,338- 52,809 per annum (salary dependant on experience)
Closing Date: 26th September 2025
Interview Date: 10th October 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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Main duties of the job

• We seek a skilled and motivated Cardiac Physiologist or Clinical Scientist to join our growing invasive team.
• The post holder will be expected to work as an independent practitioner, providing specialist skills and leadership within a team offering diagnostic angiography, pacing implants, and follow-up services.
• This post may be offered to the right candidate as a training progressional role in band 6, with progression to band 7 once specific competence has been achieved. The candidate would be expected to undertake in-house training and suitable external training programmes and undertake suitable examinations to achieve CRM accreditation.

About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically- led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Effective open communication
Excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
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Details
Date posted
05 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
38,682 to 54,710 a year per annum (dependant on experience)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
230-36782466-MED-F1
Job locations
George Eliot Hospital
College Street
Nuneaton
CV10 7DJ
Job description
Job responsibilities

• To improve patient care by optimising pacemaker and ICD prescriptions with ongoing assessment of patient symptoms.
• To ensure adherence to clinical guidelines and pathways of Physiologists undertaking device follow up and implantation.
• To be responsible for the safe use of complex and expensive equipment.
• To assess and adapt clinical techniques following assessment for each procedure to meet the individual needs of the patient.
• To undertake duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• To analyse and interpret data, using specialist theoretical knowledge and experience, to produce procedure results and reports, which contribute to patient diagnosis and treatment.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached. Job description
Job responsibilities

• To improve patient care by optimising pacemaker and ICD prescriptions with ongoing assessment of patient symptoms.
• To ensure adherence to clinical guidelines and pathways of Physiologists undertaking device follow up and implantation.
• To be responsible for the safe use of complex and expensive equipment.
• To assess and adapt clinical techniques following assessment for each procedure to meet the individual needs of the patient.
• To undertake duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• To analyse and interpret data, using specialist theoretical knowledge and experience, to produce procedure results and reports, which contribute to patient diagnosis and treatment.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualification and Professional Traing
Essential

• BSC in Clinical Physiology (Cardiology) or equivalent APEL and ONC, plus HNC in Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement (MPPM)
• Master level degree or equivalent qualification in Healthcare Science
• Accreditation with IBHRE or HRUK
• Part of the Society for Cardiological Science and Technology (MSCST)

Desirable

• HCPC registered
• Intermediate Life Support
• Mary Seacole NHS Leadership Award or equivalent
• DClinSci or PhD

Experience and Knowledge
Essential

• Extensive experience in a formal leadership role within an NHS Hospital Trust
• Experience as an independent practitioner across a broad range of cardiac procedures with acquired highly specialist knowledge and experience in cardiac rhythm management devices
• Evidence of clinical research and audit
• Developing and implementing training packages
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience with governance, QA and/or complaint management
• Experience of planning and developing specialist services including contributing toward local and national policies

Desirable

• Experience of Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation process

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Day-to-day local rota management
• Comprehensive leadership and management abilities
• Self-disciplined and self-motivated
• Ability to manage and lead team in emergency situations
• Ability to engage the team and develop changes in working practices including research and audit
• IT competency
• Evidence to demonstrate continual professional development
• Excellent communication skills written and verbal
• Excellent analytical and influencing skills
• Able to prioritise workload as changes occur and to simultaneously focus on a particular task to meet set deadlines
• To be able to assist patients to dress and undress
• To be able to push, maneuver and assist patients to transfer from wheelchair to examining couch
• To be able to deal sensitively with anxious patients and relatives attending the department for tests and to answer patient complaints/ queries.
• To be able to deal with occasional exposure to distressing circumstances
• To be able to deal with and advise on personal and professional staff issues.
• To be able to apply concentration in the interpretation and analysis of test data and results, together with a high level of concentration during patient test procedures.
• To be able to concentrate for prolonged periods when producing service reports, business cases and planning.

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Professional manner
• To demonstrate the ability to lead and organise a team of staff
• To be able to combine the demands of leading a team with the commitment to clinical input
• Ability to form positive working relationships
• To demonstrate the ability to facilitate changes in practice
• Flexible and reliable
• Good previous health record

Person Specification
Qualification and Professional Traing
Essential

• BSC in Clinical Physiology (Cardiology) or equivalent APEL and ONC, plus HNC in Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement (MPPM)
• Master level degree or equivalent qualification in Healthcare Science
• Accreditation with IBHRE or HRUK
• Part of the Society for Cardiological Science and Technology (MSCST)

Desirable

• HCPC registered
• Intermediate Life Support
• Mary Seacole NHS Leadership Award or equivalent
• DClinSci or PhD

Experience and Knowledge
Essential

• Extensive experience in a formal leadership role within an NHS Hospital Trust
• Experience as an independent practitioner across a broad range of cardiac procedures with acquired highly specialist knowledge and experience in cardiac rhythm management devices
• Evidence of clinical research and audit
• Developing and implementing training packages
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience with governance, QA and/or complaint management
• Experience of planning and developing specialist services including contributing toward local and national policies

Desirable

• Experience of Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation process

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Day-to-day local rota management
• Comprehensive leadership and management abilities
• Self-disciplined and self-motivated
• Ability to manage and lead team in emergency situations
• Ability to engage the team and develop changes in working practices including research and audit
• IT competency
• Evidence to demonstrate continual professional development
• Excellent communication skills written and verbal
• Excellent analytical and influencing skills
• Able to prioritise workload as changes occur and to simultaneously focus on a particular task to meet set deadlines
• To be able to assist patients to dress and undress
• To be able to push, maneuver and assist patients to transfer from wheelchair to examining couch
• To be able to deal sensitively with anxious patients and relatives attending the department for tests and to answer patient complaints/ queries.
• To be able to deal with occasional exposure to distressing circumstances
• To be able to deal with and advise on personal and professional staff issues.
• To be able to apply concentration in the interpretation and analysis of test data and results, together with a high level of concentration during patient test procedures.
• To be able to concentrate for prolonged periods when producing service reports, business cases and planning.

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Professional manner
• To demonstrate the ability to lead and organise a team of staff
• To be able to combine the demands of leading a team with the commitment to clinical input
• Ability to form positive working relationships
• To demonstrate the ability to facilitate changes in practice
• Flexible and reliable
• Good previous health record

Skills Required