Assistant Sleep Practitioner

Job summary

Job Title: Assistant Sleep Practitioner

Division: Medicine & Emergency Care

Band: 2

Salary: £22,383 per annum

We are recruiting for a Assistant Sleep Practitioner who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

The Respiratory and Sleep department is a friendly and supportive team that encourage learning and development of each individual to achieve their full potential. We aim to provide the best of care to our patients by being proactive team members who can be flexible in order to accommodate the needs of the service.

The working pattern will be a mixture of weekdays and nights across at Medway Maritime Hospital and the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Sheppey.

Main duties of the job

We have an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic person with a background in respiratory and sleep to join our friendly and supportive team.

You will be carrying out Sleep Studies on a range of in and out patients of all ages and support the Sleep Physiologist leading the overnight polysomnography tests.

You will learn basic sleep fundamentals such as treatment for sleep apnoea, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). You will be a requirement to answer patients queries around issues with CPAP treatment and sending consumables to patients who require replacements.

A cheerful and pleasant personality is essential, as is experience of working in a hospital or other clinical setting performing.

You must be able to demonstrate the ability to work unsupervised and be flexible with your hours if required. This is a very busy position and a good level of fitness is essential. Knowledge of hospital IT systems is an advantage. Full training will be given with support.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To perform with training a range of basic, but non-routine sleep investigations, contributing to the diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnoea patients.

This will include the initiation and downloading data from sleep studies devices.

Issuing and explaining the connection of sleep studies to patients.

To be responsible for the accurate entry of patient records and reports on to the department database.

Arranging replacement consumables for CPAP patients.

Performing weekly stock checks for CPAP and sleep consumables.

To support the sleep physiologist onleading the overnight polysomnography tests which includes hook up and monitoring of the patient. This test is performed in hospital overnight and therefore night shifts are required for this post.

To understand and assist with department audit, technical evaluation and research projects as required.

To assist the senior staff with the implementation of new policies and procedures as required.

To assist the senior staff with monitoring and ordering of departmental supplies.

To assist in the achievement of quality projects.

To participate in individual performance review.

To complete mandatory training.

Please note, if you are considering applying for a role within our organisation we do recommend that staff are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, this is no longer a mandatory requirement.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

5 GCSEs including English and Maths or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential

Knows how to perform sleep studies Identifies a sleep disorder

Desirable

Recognises treatment for OSA

Experience

Essential

Has been performing sleep studies in other Trust

Desirable

Has worked in respiratory and sleep Has worked in a clinical environment

Skills

Essential

Demonstrates teamworking skills Demonstrates multi tasking Demonstrates good communication skills

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