Trainee Clinical Physiologist

1 month ago


Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) is a 1200 bed teaching hospital providing acute care for around one million people living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. It is the 6thlargest Acute Trust in the UK.

The Respiratory Department has a team of 13 full time consultants, one academic professor and a nurse consultant. We provide expertise in sleep medicine, ventilation, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, lung cancer/pleural medicine, interstitial lung disease and difficult asthma. The department has strong links with the UEA’s Norwich Medical School and School of Health Sciences. We also have strong collaborative links with primary care as well as Research.

Norwich is a beautiful and historic city set within the picturesque Norfolk countryside. It has good links to London and is located close to the stunning North Norfolk coast.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a trainee band five Clinical Physiologist within the Respiratory department. We are looking for an enthusiastic and well-motivated individual to join our friendly and professional team. The service provides a large range of physiological studies including routine lung function tests, cardiopulmonary exercise tests, bronchoprovocation tests, bronchodilator studies and respiratory muscle strength.

The successful applicant will have a BSc(Hons) in Sport and Exercise Science or a relevant degree, some relevant work experience and a desire to work in respiratory physiology. They will be trained to work independently and to a high professional standard to provide specialist clinical technical services performing both simple and complex investigations of lung function.

**Starting Salary**: £24,206.70 at 70% pa (Annex 21). The post holder will be required to complete the Graduate Diploma in Respiratory Science within 12 months, with academic training provided by Sheffield Hallam University. Upon successful completion of the graduate diploma, and gaining ARTP professional qualification, the post holder would then progress to Band 5 Clinic Physiologist.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
- Provide both simple and complex lung function investigations. Produce technically satisfactory measurements of value in clinical decision-making that will be used in the patient’s subsequent management.
- To protect the health and safety of staff and patients in the facility with observance of trust health and safety and infection control policies.
- Calibration of equipment and continual quality control of measurements, including the performance of personal biological control procedures.
- To be responsible for safe use of expensive complex equipment.
- To lead, instruct and coach the patients in the complex techniques, and the need for full co-operation and maximum effort in performing lung function. There is a need for speed and accuracy and a link between hand and eye co-ordination combined with patient instruction (for example, when performing gas transfer measurements where there is a narrow margin for error).

Please see the attached job description for full details.



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