Highly Specialist Cardiac Sonographer

Highly Specialist Cardiac Sonographer
Closing date: 16 August 2026

Job summary
A fixed term contract to cover maternity leave has arisen in the Congenital Echo Department at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. The role is to provide specialist echocardiography in children and adults with congenital heart disease. Accreditation in congenital echocardiography with BSE or EACVI is desirable for this role.

The post-holder will provide direct care and a high-quality diagnostic imaging service, justifying and performing cardiac ultrasound examinations, interpreting the results and providing diagnostic reports for fetal, neonatal, paediatric and adult patients. He/she will work within the multi-disciplinary team, as an independent practitioner, contributing to the provision of a highly complex, specialist tertiary service for patients of all ages with suspected congenital heart disease. The role involves working collaboratively on a day-to-day basis with others to ensure that service needs are met, including responsibility for the development and training of cardiac sonographers within this specialist area of ultrasound and the supervision of other health care professionals (including sonographers, clinical physiologists and medical staff) ensuring continuity of service delivery.

Main duties of the job
Tertiary congenital echo department consisting of a small specialist team that works within the wider multidisciplinary team. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.

WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition.

About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time.

Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care.

We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page.

Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Details
Date posted: 03 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 001725
Job locations: Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 3EX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
Jan Forster
Consultant Congenital Clinical Scientist
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Shortlisting Date: 17.08.26 Interview Date: TBC

What you will bring to the role
The post-holder should be able to:

• demonstrate specialist in-depth knowledge and theory in the field of cardiac ultrasound.
• prioritise and organise a clinical caseload.
• demonstrate commitment to self-development and improving clinical practice and patient outcomes.
• provide leadership and supervision to sonographers and more junior grades in difficult situations such as very busy periods and with patients requiring multiple examinations.
• use knowledge and skills attained through experience, training and CPD be actively involved in the training and development of more junior members of staff.
• to account for own professional actions and work independently
• decide if a referral for another type of ultrasound examination (TOE, Stress, contrast study) is required to support ultrasound findings.
• use skills, based on experience, to assess a patient’s condition and decide on an appropriate method to obtain an ultrasound scan from a range of options.
• plan and prioritise own patient workload and that of junior sonographers when required.
• assess and be involved in the development and implement ultrasound procedures.
• work within a team and autonomously using his/her discretion to re-adjust plans as the clinical situation/needs of the patient change.
• use excellent communication skills, both written and verbal to inform patients and relatives/carers including children and those with learning and/or physical disabilities about specialist cardiac investigations.
• exercise initiative as an autonomous practitioner, using his/her own discretion to re-adjust plans as the clinical situation/need of the patient changes.
• take responsibility and act in a supervisory capacity.
• demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our Trust values
The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….
Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind

Our Trust priorities
Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
Our priorities: People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes

Sponsorship Eligibility
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

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Experience
Essential

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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.

Employer details
Employer name: Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address:
Leeds General Infirmary
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS1 3EX
United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Forster
Jan
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