Band 7 Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to provide a comprehensive Clinical Neurophysiological investigative service, to patients of all ages from a large range of specialties suffering from a wide variety of medical disorders including those which may be neurological and/or psychiatric in nature.

Main duties of the job

Provides highly complex, specialist Clinical Neurophysiology service (s) to patients of all ages from a range of specialties suffering from a wide variety of medical disorders including those which may be neurological and/or psychiatric in nature.

Responsible for the organization of clinical and non-clinical work.

Responsible for the provision, audit and quality of a specialist area of Clinical Neurophysiology Service delivery.

Responsible for the development and training of Clinical Physiologists (Neurophysiology) within the designated specialist area and other professionals (including medical students and Nurses).

Undertakes interpretation of results and provision of reports.

Work collaboratively on a day-to-day basis with others to ensure that service needs are

met.

About us

The post holder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the Trust vision of:

A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties/Key Results Areas:

1.Continually monitor and maintain high professional standards of Neurophysiological services topatients and may initiate remedial action where necessary.

collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure service(s) meet changinghealthcare needs.

3.Provide visible support and assistance to Neurophysiological staff in dealing with difficult and conflicting situations including those that are of a clinical/professional nature.

4.Initiate/participate, plan and implement policies.

, perform and interpret a range of basic and advanced Neurophysiological investigations toa high level of competence to patients.

This includes,

Perform Electroencephalographic (EEG) investigations employing current standard techniques without supervision in the EEG laboratory taking appropriate action(s) where necessary. Also perform EEGs on the ward. Patients of all age groups are seen in the department.

Perform emergency EEGs on ITUs. (Intensive Therapy Units), NNUs (Neonatal Units), PICUs (Paediatric Intensive Care Units) or general wards - and appropriate action should be taken where necessary.

Perform EEG investigations using specialist techniques. .These include activated recordings, recordings following sleep deprivation, recordings during administration of medication (eg Melatonin), recordings during general anaesthetic, recordings during stimulation of a non routine recording ( Wada testing)

Perform long term EEG monitoring and long term EEG and Video monitoring taking appropriate action.

Perform Video/EEG Telemetry during sleep deprivation and drug reduction to provoke a seizure, taking appropriate action.

Perform all modality evoked potentials taking appropriate action(s) where necessary. (including Visual, brainstem and Somatosensory evoked potentials.

Perform Nerve Conduction Studies for Physiology Lead Carpal Tunnel Clinics.

referring clinicians on investigation requirements and make suggestions on adaptationtechniques.

7.Provide factual reports on a range of Neurophysiological investigations which contribute to theoverall final report.

initiate and participate with research and development programmes.

9.Maintain continuous professional development appropriate to the range of Neurophysiology services to patients.

10.Undertake simple fault remedy, cleaning and maintenance of recording equipment or any apparatus within the department including care and maintenance of electrodes. In case of equipment failure, effectively communicating with the manufacturers to minimize any interruption of service.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

BSc (Hons) Clinical Physiology (Neurophysiology) or equivalent formal specialist training (Other appropriate qualifications BTEC HNC/D in MPPM / or equivalent experience + professional exam ECNE Part I) plus knowledge of specialist procedures acquired through specialist/management courses or training/experience to advanced level

Desirable

BSc (Hons) Clinical Physiology (Neurophysiology) or equivalent formal specialist training (Other appropriate qualifications BTEC HNC/D in MPPM / or equivalent experience + professional exam ECNE Part I) plus knowledge of specialist procedures acquired through specialist/management courses or training/experience to advanced level

Experience

Essential

Appropriate post qualification experience.( at least 5 years) Practical experience and familiarity with the range of basic and advanced Neurophysiological Investigations.

Desirable

Supervisory experience. Management experience. Work based assessor experience

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