Paediatric Respiratory Sleep/ Ltv Physiologist

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU Southampton Childrens hospital is a 115 bedded hospital catering for both local and regional children from the Wessex Region including the Channel Isles. Southamptons Childrens Hospital is a Major Paediatric Trauma Centre in the region. The childrens hospital provides specialist intensive and high dependency care, regional cardiac, neurological and neuro surgery, regional orthopaedic, urology, general, renal and ear nose and throat surgery and is the regional oncology centre. The children hospital has a dedicated childrens emergency department, day surgical / medical unit, childrens outpatients and Bursledon House which is a specialist unit treating a range of conditions.

Southampton Childrens Hospital is a centre for paediatric research projects. Within the site also sits our tertiary level 3 medical and surgical neonatal unit. Our specialist paediatric consultants, nurses and wider healthcare teams offer a wide range of diagnosis, treatment and support facilities for children and their parents.The Childrens Hospital offers many learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to with support from ward based Clinical Facilitators and a central Paediatric Education Team. We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service.

UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WHAT YOULL DO You will help manage the inpatient and home sleep service in coordination with the Sleep & Respiratory Technicians and the Sleep Physiologists. You will organise and run clinics where families are trained to use home sleep study equipment and analyse and provide specialist interpretation of the sleep study results for the Respiratory clinicians. On three scheduled (according to rota) nights per month you will also run LTV titration sleep studies.

WHAT WERE LOOKING FORWe are looking for an enthusiastic physiologist with formal training to a BSc or equivalent level, or with very specific equivalent training and experience in a Respiratory or Sleep Laboratory or similar clinical environment. You must have: the ability to communicate with a wide range of people in a variety of settings the ability to work independently, assessing and intervening as necessary to ensure patient safety the ability to work with respiratory equipment and trouble shoot problems good organisation skills and effective time management ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Interviews will be held on Tuesday, 30 April 2024 Should you have any queries, please use the contact details below to get in touch.