Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Sleep and Respiratory Physiologist
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shifts times include 9am - 5pm, 8am - 4pm, 12.30pm - 8.30pm, 8pm - 8am and occasional 6pm - 8am.)
- Job ref
- 196-LIS8635
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £34,089 - £41,498 p.a inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/07/2024
Employer heading
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Paediatric Clinical Physiologist (Sleep and Respiratory)
Band 5
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are currently looking for highly motivated individuals with relevant clinical experience to join our team at the Children's Sleep & Respiratory Centre.
The Children’s Sleep and Respiratory Centre is an internationally respected quaternary centre of excellence for the comprehensive investigation and treatment of sleep and respiratory disorders in infants and children. We have 5 dedicated sleep beds and two fully equipped respiratory assessment rooms. Across the service we use innovative approaches and equipment to maintain excellent patient experience for our paediatric population. This includes domiciliary sleep studies, mobile respiratory assessment, ward testing and a home spirometry service. We regularly present at international conferences and are a research active department.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will spend time in both sleep and respiratory assessment, offering an exciting opportunity to develop advanced skills and knowledge in both clinical areas. The successful candidate will therefore gain training and experience in a wide range of sleep and respiratory investigations including overnight oximetry and overnight carbon dioxide monitoring, actigraphy, respiratory polygraphy, full polysomnography, spirometry, FeNO, forced oscillation technique, skin prick testing, exhaled CO, sniff nasal inspiratory pressure measurements, transfer factor, lung volumes and bronchodilator reversibility assessments. They will also assist with more specialised measurements such as multiple sleep latency testing and combined sleep/telemetry studies, hypoxic challenge, structural light plethysmography and CPET. Attending and analysing overnight sleep studies is an essential part of this role, shifts therefore include a combination of 9am-5pm, 8.30am – 4.30pm, 12.30pm-8.30pm and 8pm-8am, and approximately 20 - 30% of duties are worked outside normal hours (WONH). Applicants should possess a BSc in clinical physiology, PTP or relevant science degree, some relevant work experience and a desire to work in sleep/respiratory physiology with children, as demonstrated by well written supporting information within the application. BRPT/ ARTP qualifications are desirable but not essential. A personalised training program will be designed and agreed during induction.
Working for our organisation
You would be part of a wonderfully diverse team of 23 Physiologists working together to put patients first to provide world class sleep and respiratory diagnostics.
Staff wellbeing and equity are extremely important for us with a number of initiatives designed to accommodate everyone's individual needs. These include flexible working and a focus on ensuring all voices are heard in departmental decision making. We expect everyone to try their best and encourage learning from successes and also from the inevitable mistakes. Overall we adopt a light-hearted atmosphere to aid good communication and wellbeing.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Some of the key responsibilities are listed above, for more detailed information please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. Please note the interview date is 25/07/2024.
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Clinical Physiology or other Biological subject
Desirable criteria
- A-STEP or equivalent ARTP Qualification level I-III
- RPSGT ESRS/EST
- registration with HCPC/RCCP
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good basic knowledge of sleep/respiratory disorders, interventions and physiological procedures.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of study days within speciality
- Has a working knowledge of hospital patient systems (EPIC, smart order)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of clinical contact with patients and/or the public
- Experience with paediatric patients and/or children.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience as trainee in a clinical physiology discipline
- Previous experience of sleep investigations and interventions such as CPAP/BiPAP, NIV initiation and titration
- Previous Lung Function and other respiratory assessments experience
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarusan Kugarajah
- Job title
- Chief Clinical Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071883427
- Additional information
As above
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