Job description
Are you a registered Healthcare Scientist with the AHCS/RCCP, or completing your undergraduate Healthcare Science degree programme this academic year and looking to gain skills in echocardiography?
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for an 18-month fixed term full-time training post in echocardiography, starting in October 2023. You will be trained by expert Cardiac Physiologists/Clinical Scientists at the British Society of Echocardiography accredited department to become highly skilled in performing and reporting cardiac ultrasound diagnostic procedures.
This opportunity is part of the Echocardiography Training Program developed by the National School of Healthcare Science and fully funded by Health Education England.
Successful ETP trainees will be trained to BSE accreditation level 2 and will be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography from University of Newcastle.
Applicants for this programme at Leeds Teaching Hospitals need to have a 1st or 2:1 in Cardiac Physiology Healthcare Science (PTP or Apprenticeship) and registration with the AHCS or RCCP. Applicants who are completing their undergraduate programme this year are also encouraged to apply but must be registered by the time the programme starts.
For more information, please see the NSHCSwebsite: https://nshcs.hee.nhs.uk/programmes/etp/