South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Echocardiographer

Job summary
Primally based at Friarage Hospital to purpose of this role is to provide essential specialist expertise in echocardiography. To provide expert training, advice and developmental support for other staff. Contribute to maintain waiting list targets and to the provision of high patient care. Keys roles been,

• Perform echocardiograms on both inpatients and outpatients to a high standard, at all trust sites, Providing clear and accurate reports on echocardiograms.
• Play an active role in the supervision and training of medical and technical staff in all areas of echocardiography.

Main duties of the job

• Perform echocardiograms on both inpatients and outpatients to a high standard, at all trust sites, Providing clear and accurate reports on echocardiograms.
• Play an active role in the supervision and training of medical and technical staff in all areas of echocardiography.
• Extended role developments - contrast and stress echocardiography, TOE, CRT, 3D, simple SCHD and specialist valve clinics, specialist Cath lab support for TAVI and structural heart disease procedures with possible development into MRI / Paediatric clinics.
• To follow department protocols for the day-to-day coordination of the echo department
• Respond appropriately to cardiac / cardiopulmonary arrest and other life-threatening emergencies.
• If needed rotate through non-invasive diagnostic clinics in a supervisory capacity- ETT/Tilts/Active stands/ Ambulatory analysis.
• Due to the departments infrastructure if the successful candidate has relevant experience/competence in Cardiac Cath labs, PPCI, TAVI, CRM device implants these will be maintained, and they will participate in the Cath lab on call service

Work cross site when needed

This post will close once sufficient applications have been received.

About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.

Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.

We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Details
Date posted: 03 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 328-CVS-8088639
Job locations: Friarage Hospital, Bullamoor Road, Northallerton, DL6 1JG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential

• BSc (Hons) Clinical Physiology
• BSE accreditation in adult echocardiography

Desirable

• Experience as a student mentor.
• Registration with the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists or other appropriate council
• BSE marker/ assessor
• Clinical/ Physical Skills Attendance at the leadership and development and improvement programme (4.5 days)

Experience
Essential

• Advanced specialist knowledge of all modalities of echocardiography.
• Sound Decision making, analytical and judgemental skills
• Ability to foresee implications of decisions and their impact on others
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines whilst delivering high quality work
• Supervised in ETT
• Ambulatory ECG analysis

Desirable

• Participating in physiology led valve clinics
• Tilt Table testing
• Participation in QA

Knowledge & Skills
Essential

• Excellent knowledge of technical cardiology.
• Ability to perform and report adult transthoracic echocardiograms
• Skills necessary for performing dobutamine stress echocardiography.
• Ability to interpret echo and Doppler data and write a report of findings.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Understands the principle behind ETT/Tilt table testing

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Friarage Hospital, Bullamoor Road, Northallerton, DL6 1JG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Chief Cardiac Physiologist
Sarah Walker
Sarah.walker25@nhs.net
01609764514