Clinical Scientist in Respiratory and Sleep Sciences in Hereford

The Senior Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist works under the general supervision of the Lead Physiologist for the Wye Valley Respiratory and Sleep service to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of a wide range of respiratory, sleep and ventilation disorders including outpatient respiratory and sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care and direct patient education. The person should have specialist experience in basic sleep technology / advanced respiratory testing. To perform as an independent practitioner using clinical experience to manage patient care in a medical clinical environment.

Main duties of the job

• To perform, analyse, and interpret reports on basic and advanced sleep studies.
• To perform advanced respiratory physiology tests.
• Implement and audit the quality control of scoring within the department (inter scorer reliability programme).
• Providing day-to-day leadership for the sleep / respiratory teams and coordinating activities.
• Reviewing existing procedures and developing new protocols for additional services in line with expansion of the Service.
• To assist the Chief Physiologist with the development of PSG / MSLT and MWT service development and delivery of service.
• Develop the expanding CPET service, working with Pre op assessment and Surgeons from other centres.
• Supervision, teaching and training of trainee physiologists, nurses and medical students.
• Liaise with the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure patients' treatment is appropriately managed.
• Taking an active role in research and audit.
• Take an active role in the departmental budget and have good understanding of funding and expenditure.
• Providing rapid access investigation for in-patients.
• Manage the acute and chronically unwell patient with regards to ventilatory needs.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends. More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Job responsibilities

This post offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the delivery of our Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), which opened in 2025. The Community Diagnostic Centre incorporates Imaging (Plain X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI), a range of cardiorespiratory investigations including echocardiography, ECG and rhythm monitoring, blood pressure monitoring, spirometry, FeNO, lung function tests, simple field tests, sleep investigations, oximetry, blood gas analysis and pathology services in a "one stop" location to obtain diagnostic information in cancer, cardiac, respiratory, musculo-skeletal and other conditions. Successful candidates will work at the Hereford County Hospital site initially and then in rotation between the hospital site and our CDC site.

Person Specification

• Education & Qualifications: Registration Council for Clinical Physiologist (RCCP) or Health Care and Professions Council. BSc Clinical Physiology (Respiratory) Degree pre 2012 or MSc Clinical Physiology (Respiratory) Degree post 2012 or equivalent. Master's Degree or Equivalent level of knowledge or Specialist Training Programme e.g. Relevant Post Graduate degree or Equivalent Specialist modules / courses in Respiratory and Sleep. Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) or European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) Expert Sleep Technologist Certification or willingness to work towards. Association for Respiratory Technology & Physiology (ARTP) / British Thoracic Society (BTS) Part 1 and 2 national qualifications.

• Skills, Knowledge & Abilities: Proven ability to delegate and prioritise both clinical and administrative work. Strong ability to critically analyse research and disseminate findings applying to practice to improve specialist area of practice. Demonstrable evidence in own specialist interest and contribution toward developing clinical practice. Ability to respond to, adapt to and lead service change.

• Experience: Proven post-qualification experience as minimum Band 6 Respiratory/Sleep Physiologist. Demonstrable experience of complex decision making. Significant Experience of Autonomous working.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.