Senior Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist
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Job Summary
The Senior Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist works under the general supervision of the Lead Physiologist for the Wye Valley Respiratory and Sleep service to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of a wide range of respiratory, sleep and ventilation disorders including outpatient respiratory and sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care and direct patient education .
Job Summary
The Senior Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist works under the general supervision of the Lead Physiologist for the Wye Valley Respiratory and Sleep service to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of a wide range of respiratory, sleep and ventilation disorders including outpatient respiratory and sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care and direct patient education .
The person should have specialist experience in basic sleep technology / advanced respiratory testing. To perform as an independent practitioner using clinical experience to manage patient care in a medical clinical environment.
Main duties of the job
* To perform, analyse, and interpret reports on basic and advanced sleep studies.
* To perform advanced respiratory physiology tests.
* Implement and audit the quality control of scoring within the department (inter scorer reliability programme).
* Providing day-to-day leadership for the sleep / respiratory teams and coordinating activities.
* Reviewing existing procedures and developing new protocols for additional services in line with expansion of the Service.
* To assist the Chief Physiologist with the development of PSG / MSLT and MWT service development and delivery of service.
* Develop the expanding CPET service, working with Pre op assessment and Surgeons form other centres.
* Supervision, teaching and training of trainee physiologists, nurses and medical students.
* Liaise with the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure patients' treatment is appropriately managed.
* Taking an active role in research and audit.
* Take an active role in the departmental budget and have good understanding of funding and expenditure.
* Providing rapid access investigation for in-patients.
* Mange the acute and chronically unwell patient with regards to ventilatory needs.
About Us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Details
Date posted
17 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year pa, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
229-MED-7271015
Job locations
WVT
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Job Description
Job responsibilities
This/these new post/s offer(s) an exciting opportunity to contribute to the delivery of our Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), due to open in 2025 in Hereford.
The Community Diagnostic Centre will incorporate Imaging (Plain X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI), a range of cardiorespiratory investigations including echocardiography, ECG and rhythm monitoring, blood pressure monitoring, spirometry, FeNO, lung function tests, simple field tests, sleep investigations, oximetry, blood gas analysis and pathology services in a "one stop" location to obtain diagnostic information in cancer, cardiac, respiratory, musculo-skeletal and other conditions.
Successful candidates will work at the Hereford County Hospital site initially and then in rotation between the hospital site and our CDC site which will open in 2025.
For more information about the CDC visit: Community Diagnostic Centre
Job Description
Job responsibilities
This/these new post/s offer(s) an exciting opportunity to contribute to the delivery of our Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), due to open in 2025 in Hereford.
The Community Diagnostic Centre will incorporate Imaging (Plain X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI), a range of cardiorespiratory investigations including echocardiography, ECG and rhythm monitoring, blood pressure monitoring, spirometry, FeNO, lung function tests, simple field tests, sleep investigations, oximetry, blood gas analysis and pathology services in a "one stop" location to obtain diagnostic information in cancer, cardiac, respiratory, musculo-skeletal and other conditions.
Successful candidates will work at the Hereford County Hospital site initially and then in rotation between the hospital site and our CDC site which will open in 2025.
For more information about the CDC visit: Community Diagnostic Centre
Person Specification
Essential
Education & Qualifications
* Registration Council for Clinical Physiologist (RCCP) or Health Care and Professions Council.
* BSc Clinical Physiology (Respiratory) Degree pre 2012 or MSc Clinical Physiology (Respiratory) Degree post 2012 or equivalent?.
* Master's Degree or Equivalent level of knowledge or Specialist Training Programme e.g. Relevant Post Graduate degree or Equivalent Specialist modules / courses in Respiratory and Sleep
* Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) or European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) Expert Sleep Technologist Certification or willingness to work towards
Desirable
* Association for Respiratory Technology & Physiology (ARTP) / British Thoracic Society (BTS) Part 1 and 2 national qualifications.
Essential
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
* Proven ability to delegate and prioritise both clinical and administrative work.
* Strong ability to critically analyse research and disseminate findings applying to practice to improve specialist area of practice.
* Demonstrable evidence in own specialist interest and contribution toward developing clinical practice.
* Ability to respond to, adapt to and lead service change.
Experience
Essential
* Proven post-qualification experience as minimum Band 6 Respiratory/Sleep Physiologis
* Demonstrable experience of complex decision making.
* Significant Experience of Autonomous working
Person Specification
Essential
* Proven post-qualification experience as minimum Band 6 Respiratory/Sleep Physiologis
* Demonstrable experience of complex decision making.
* Significant Experience of Autonomous working
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
WVT
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
WVT
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Health Care Provider
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