Senior Physiologist

Senior Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist
Band 7
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.
To perform advanced respiratory physiology tests.
Implement and audit the quality control of scoring within the department (inter scorer reliability programme).
Supervision, teaching and training of trainee physiologists, nurses and medical students.
Taking an active role in research and audit.
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.
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
Association for Respiratory Technology & Physiology (ARTP) / British Thoracic Society (BTS) Part 1 and 2 national qualifications.
Strong ability to critically analyse research and disseminate findings applying to practice to improve specialist area of practice.
Proven post-qualification experience as minimum Band 6 Respiratory/Sleep Physiologis