Assistant Practitioner | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 December 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7387550/287-AMED-221-25 |
Summary
As an Associate Practitioner you will be required to perform ECG’s in line with departmental policies and to work as a supervised practitioner
within the Cardiac Laboratory in a range of diagnostic tests.
Duties will include a range of basic cardiac investigations and it is essential to have completed or be willing to work towards a foundation degree in
Healthcare Science.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest and busiest hospital Trusts in the North of England providing services to
1 million patients per year. Our vision is world class services and hospitals for the people of Merseyside, Cheshire and beyond.
The Cardiology Labs offers a wide range of diagnostic proceedures including;
• Full range of non invasive cardiac diagnostics, ECG and ambulatory.
• Echocardiography including TOE, Stress Echo and 3D.
• Physiologist led Tilt Table service.
• Physiologist led exercise service.
• Pacing implants and follow up.
• Cardiac catherisation
Applications are invited from a well motivated band 4 Associate Practitioner or suitably experienced band 3 assistant technical officer to join this exciting department.
Please see job description for duties.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit theircareers page.
• To record ECG’s on the wards, in the department, in outpatients, accident and emergency and in the community.
• To be proficient in ECG interpretation.
• To assist physiologists in Transoesophageal Echocardiography
• To assist in the clinical management of patients undergoing cardiac investigations within the Cardiology Labs
• To assist with Physiologist led Tilt Table service.
• To assist with Physiologist led exercise service.
• Non-complex ambulatory ECG analysis (reports to be countersigned by a Qualified Cardiac physiologist)
This advert closes on Monday 1 Dec 2025