Senior Respiratory Physiologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Respiratory Physiologist to lead our Sleep and CPAP service. You will be responsible for the operational management of the service, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care. This senior role includes providing expert professional leadership, supporting clinical staff, and maintaining a high standard of diagnostic and therapeutic service. You will communicate regularly with the consultant lead to ensure the smooth running and ongoing development of the service. You will play a key role in strategic planning and service development, contributing to discussions and projects that enhance care pathways and promote integrated working across the local healthcare system. Your input will help shape the future of sleep and respiratory care within the Trust and wider community. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in respiratory and sleep diagnostics, including CPAP therapy, along with strong leadership and organisational skills. If you're ready to take the next step in your career and make a lasting impact on patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job:

• Perform standard lung function testing, unsupervised, gaining accurate and clinically valuable measurements.
• Standard lung function testing including dynamic lung volumes by spirometry; static lung volumes by whole body plethysmography and nitrogen washout; transfer factor for carbon monoxide by single breath method; assessment of bronchodilator response; 6 min walk testing and capillary blood gases.
• Analysis of respiratory polygraphy; CPAP initiation, education, home monitoring and maintenance of equipment; follow-up patients on CPAP therapy, trouble-shoot problems and alter treatment if required.
• Participate in rota for conducting patient 'hook-ups' for nocturnal full polysomnography studies.
• Obtain reproducible and clinically meaningful results, acknowledging when to reject poor measurements and technical errors in order to gain the best and most accurate results.

About us:

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond. We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home. Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, our procedures and our People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times. We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly. Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits. Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ and Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

Person Specification:

• Essential: Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values.
• Experience: Minimum two years as band 5 Respiratory Physiology in NHS. Competent in producing accurate test data from highly complex respiratory investigations in sleep, CPAP and NIV. BSc Healthcare Science or equivalent. Able to progress to AHCS registration. Planning and organisation of a number of activities including own duties and patient scheduling. Use of persuasive, motivational skills with empathy and reassurance skills.
• Desirable: Experience of analysing respiratory and full polysomnography sleep studies. CPD by attendance at internal and external lectures, seminars and courses. Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures within respiratory physiology. Previous experience of capillary +/- arterial blood gas sampling.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.