Senior Physiologist

This is an exciting opportunity to join the respiratory physiology team here at Royal Berkshire as a Senior Physiologist.


Please note although this post is being advertised as a permanent full time position, the option of part time and/or fixed term is available to the right candidate.
To train departmental staff to perform the basic respiratory physiological measurements in accordance with ARTP/BTS National Guidelines and local standards.


To mentor and assist in the development and training of physiology staff members.


The instruction of student nurses and doctors, trainee physiotherapists and pharmacists, junior doctors, staff nurses, GPs and practice nurses in various aspects of physiology.
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.


The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.We are one of the largest hospital foundation trusts in the country, and currently touch the lives of half a million patients in the west of Berkshire every year by providing high quality acute medical and surgical services for our local communities.
To supervise the physiology team in the daily running of the service involving:


Perform diagnostic tests to nationally recognised standards for accuracy and quality.


Bronchodilator Response Testing
Field exercise tests (6 minute walk test shuttle test 6 minute step exercise test).
To perform earlobe blood gas sampling and analysis.
To perform fraction exhaled Nitric Oxide testing (FeNO)
To provide the mobile respiratory physiology service at the trust spoke sites.
To provide Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET). Scientific knowledge acquired through formal training to Clinical Physiology BSc or equivalent level.
Evidence of attending 'Train the trainer' course

Experience of supervising junior physiology staff and students

Experience of remote monitoring of home CPAP patients

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust