Specialist Respiratory Physiologist

2 weeks ago

Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

A new opportunity has arisen in the lead delivery and management of the diagnostic respiratory and sleep physiology services at the brand new Clacton diagnostic hub and at Colchester hospital.

You should be able to provide highly specialist clinical physiological knowledge and interpretation of a range of diagnostic and analytic studies predominantly within the sleep and ventilation service.

You will lead in the running and development of the Sleep diagnostic services, and Home CPAP/Ventilation services for ESNEFT. This will involve reporting on all inpatient and outpatient sleep studies maintaining a good level of technical work.

There will also be a requirement for you to deliver CPAP clinics and NIV clinics. There may be a requirement to assist in the Lung Function Laboratory when required.

As lead for the sleep service you will have a duty to deliver and develop the service as set out in the Trust’s plan, as well as having managerial responsibilities for both the service and the team.

You will be joining a busy, multidisciplinary team including, CPAP Practitioners, Physiologists, Sleep Technician, Consultants, Respiratory Nurse Specialists and Administrative support.
- undertake the full range of routine, advanced and highly specialist respiratory physiological investigations;
- provide verbal and written interpretation to referring medical teams on simple, specialist, complex assessments;
- provide expert opinion and seek co-operation from medical colleagues regarding appropriateness of referrals and make the final and on occasions contentious, decision where changes to the referral form are required or if testing is contraindicated;
- teach highly specialist test theories and techniques to post graduate level student physiologists and medical students;
- perform and report all lung function tests;
One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health & Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

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