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Sleep/CPAP Technician- Respiratory Service, Stevenage
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Client:
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Reference:
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Job Views:
3
Posted:
23.05.2025
Expiry Date:
07.07.2025
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Job Description:
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Sleep/CPAP Technician who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This post holder will undertake Sleep Diagnostics and CPAP clinics at both Lister and Hertford County Hospitals.
You will be responsible for the management of all equipment involved in the clinics, ensuring excellent infection control procedures.
You must be able to communicate effectively with all members of the team and patients.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
As a Sleep/CPAP Technician you will work to clear guidelines in the planning, implementation and evaluation of care of sleep and CPAP patients.
Work collaboratively and cooperatively with others to meet the needs of patients and their families.
Participate in the development of self and others.
The post holder will work closely with the sleep specialists, to support adults suffering with potential sleep disorders, performing, taking bloods and clinical observations.
The post holder will be responsible for setting up new patients with domiciliary sleep studies, downloading data and infection control management of equipment.
Review adult outpatients suffering with obstructive sleep apnoea who currently use CPAP. Assess and monitor progress and evaluating interventions. Ensuring safe management and improving the health status of this patient group.
Maintain and update the sleep database in conjunction with other members of the team.
Take part in research projects.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Previous Experience
* Previous experience in health care setting
* Experience working with Sleep Disorder Patients
* Experience using CPAP with patient
Skills
* Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding
* Flexibility and team participation
* Ability to perform basic clinical observations such as BP, Pulse, Oxygen Saturations
* Ability to organise own workload independently
Knowledge
* Understanding of basic sleep disorders and treatments
* Good understanding of Lorenzo ( patient administration system)
* Used CPAP platform ‘Airview’
Qualifications
* Good basic education
* NVQ 3
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [emailprotected]
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.
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