Noel Keating is one of our Band 6 apprentices. He has worked in Cardiology for a few years now having started off as an ECG Technician & Scheduler. He has worked himself up to Associate Practitioner Level. With the introduction of the Level 6 Apprenticeship degree in Healthcare Science at Sheffield Hallam University, he is now developing into a Cardiac Physiologist at trainee level. Here he tells all in the latest of Hello My Name Is.. features.

Hello my name is… Noel Keating. I come from Leeds and was born into a large Irish family on the last day of the 1960s. I moved over to Calderdale about 20 years ago when my partner became a nurse at CRH.

What is your position?  

Trainee cardiac physiologist (Level 6 apprentice)

Summarise your career background

I started work in the civil service and then moved onto a large well known bank for several years. I left the bank just before the financial crash of 2008 (not my fault) and joined CHFT as an ECG technician in Cardiology. Since then I’ve had various roles within Cardiology which have all kept me very busy.

What is the highlight of your career so far?

Getting onto the Level 6 Apprenticeship  degree course (Healthcare Science) at Sheffield Hallam University as a trainee cardiac physiologist.

Sum up your role in three words

Varied. Challenging. Rewarding.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Not really sure. I tend to takes things as they come. An intrepid explorer would have been nice.

Who is your hero/heroine and why?

Spider-Man. I can still remember climbing two storeys up a drain pipe when I was eight- years-old.

When you are not at work how do you relax?

Walking mainly. I’m surrounded by beautiful countryside.

What is your favourite place?

Home.

What would people be surprised to know about you?

I once played Gaelic Football for Yorkshire.

Twitter/Facebook?

No.

The NHS is 70 on the 5th July. How does that make you feel?

Proud, but not complacent. It’s something we should cherish and fight for.

The NHS has given me the opportunity to go back to university and further my career. Also, having type 1 diabetes, I don’t know where I’d be without it.