Job overview
Join Our Team as a Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist at Royal Preston Hospital!
Are you a Clinical Physiologist ready to take your career to the next level? Are you passionate about delivering top-tier patient care and making a real difference in people’s lives? If so, this is the challenge you’ve been waiting for!
We’re on the hunt for a motivated, adaptable Clinical Physiologist with the motivation to become a vital part of our innovative team. This is your chance to work in a forward-thinking environment where your skills truly matter.
Why Join Us?
This is a thrilling time at Royal Preston Hospital! We’re proud to be opening our brand-new Community Diagnostic Centre, where we’ll be offering cutting-edge Respiratory and Sleep diagnostics to the community. You’ll be at the forefront of this exciting development, helping to shape the future of diagnostic services.
What We’re Looking For:
1. A qualified Clinical Physiologist with strong respiratory and sleep expertise
2. Passion for exceptional patient care and teamwork
3. Flexibility and drive to thrive in a dynamic clinical setting
What You’ll Get:
4. The opportunity to work with the latest diagnostic technology
5. Join a supportive, passionate, and collaborative team
6. Play a key role in expanding vital community services
If you’re ready to embrace a rewarding new challenge and grow your career with us, apply now and help us deliver excellence in respiratory and sleep diagnostics!
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the delivery of a wide range of respiratory investigations including:
Spirometry, Diffusion studies, Plethysmography, Bronchial challenge testing, Six minute walks, Muscle pressure tests ( MIPS/MEPS/SNIP)
You will also be responsible for providing support to the Sleep Service, performing Overnight Oximetry, Multi -Channel Respiratory Sleep studies and CPAP Therapy reviews and set ups.
Continuous professional development is strongly encouraged and you will have excellent opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge.
Working for our organisation
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will play a key role in the delivery of the Respiratory Physiology Service at Preston CDC, Royal Preston and Chorley District Hospital with support from the Respiratory Physiology team. You will play an active role in the delivery of the day to day sleep and respiratory physiology services. This will involve setting up and analysis of home sleep studies, initiation and follow up of CPAP therapy and performing full lung function tests.
The successful candidate must be able to perform a full range of respiratory investigations including spirometry, diffusion, plethysmography, bronchial challenge testing, exercise testing and assessment of sleep disorders and be willing to undertake the challenge of developing these services further.
You will be self-motivated, well organised, have excellent interpersonal skills. You must have a flexible attitude and the willingness to travel between sites.
Perform analyse and report all routine lung function investigations within Respiratory Physiology Laboratory including Spirometry, diffusion studies, lung volume measurements, 6 min walk tests and tests of muscle pressure to required national standard.
Perform, analyse and report Overnight Oximetry and Respiratory multichannel sleep studies.
Contribute to the day to day requirements of the Sleep and CPAP service.
Ensure calibration and quality control of equipment is carried out for all procedures.
Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation
To participate in education and training of junior staff.
Actively participate in research studies.
Maintain and develop own professional competence and seek to extend the scope of personal knowledge and skills within scope of role and professional practice.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
7. Degree in Clinical Physiology, PTP or equivalent
8. RCCP registration or equivalent (or working towards)
9. Up-to-date Continual professional development
Desirable criteria
10. ARTP parts 1 and 2 or specialist knowledge in practical and theoretical respiratory analysis including relevant disorders.
11. ILS certificate
12. Work based assessor or mentor qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
13. Experience as a respiratory physiologist in lung function
14. Evidence of clinical competence in the area of respiratory investigations
Desirable criteria
15. Experience of managing own time and work load.
16. Experience as a respiratory physiologist in sleep.