Job summary
INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
Royal Papworth Hospital is a centre of Excellence in healthcare, and this extends to our purpose built 10 bedded Sleep Laboratory and Respiratory Physiology service. The successful applicant will require the holder to be a self-sufficient dynamic person who is forward thinking and above all a team player who is able to work within our team to deliver first class standards of health care. Using your experience as a specialist sleep and respiratory healthcare scientist, this role will involve the setup, analysis and scoring of oximetry, sleep diaries, actigraphy, respiratory polygraphy, polysomnography and daytime tests, as well as CPET, FENO, PFT's, and CPAP therapy working to internationally accepted standards. We also actively take part in the STP education programme with our own students as well as support other departments and hospitals. Student mentorship will be central in this role leading as the department training officer. Departmental clinical audit and participation in research studies is also required.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the Chief Sleep and Respiratory Physiologist role will require:
*Independent set up, bio calibration, data recording, analysis and reporting of a wide range of sleep diagnostic tests in both our in-patient ward and outpatient department.
*Independent set up, troubleshooting and follow up for CPAP therapy.
*Independent set up, calibration, performance and quality assurance of a wide range of respiratory function diagnostic tests across inpatients and outpatients.
*Supervision of junior staff and temporary staffing.
*Mentorship and support of our SPT post graduate students.
*Equipment testing as needed.
*Participation in clinical audit and research as required.
*Attendance and where required participation at departmental meetings and MDT meetings.
*Participation in departmental SOP creation and updates.
*Ongoing risk assessment to ensure the wellbeing of service users and staff.
*Please see the role profile for full details.
*As an in-patient department we will be open 24/7 Monday to Friday. Shift times vary and will include working into the mid to later evening. There is no overnight working required for the Healthcare Scientists.
*Part time / flexible working may be considered and not unreasonably denied dependent on how these fits with the team and service requirements.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level qualification in clinical physiology or other science related degree topic. The degree subject must be relevant to the specialism and include Human Anatomy and Physiology and research skills.
- Master's level qualification or equivalent experience in clinical physiology or other science related degree topic. The degree subject must be relevant to the specialism and include Human Anatomy and Physiology and research skills.
Desirable
- HCPC registered Clinical Scientist in Respiratory and Sleep or RCCP/AHCS registration.
- Mentorship training
- Educational or assessing qualifications.
- ESRS Technologist Examination in Sleep Medicine
- RPSGT
- ARTP Practitioner Certificate
- AHCS/RCCP Registration.
- ARTP/BSS/ESRS membership
- ARTP CPAP certificate or other appropriate CPAP qualification or experience.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working across a sleep and/or respiratory physiology department, particularly relating to education, patient assessment and treatment planning.
- A high degree of proficiency using computers and the Microsoft Office Suite.
- Be able to problem solve using initiative to plan and organise work for themselves and others including in acute scenarios, taking a lead role in specialist circumstances such as during specialist testing.
- Be able to lead, coordinate and facilitate and support learning and training of themselves and others.
- Be able to lead, coordinate and facilitate departmental policy changes, implementing them efficiently.
- Demonstrate highly specialist knowledge of sleep and its disorders and the treatment of sleep disorders including sleep disordered breathing.
- Demonstrate highly specialist knowledge of respiratory physiology and its disorders.
- Demonstrate a wide highly specialist knowledge of sleep testing using international scoring rules and ability to set up, score and report Polysomnography, Respiratory polygraphy, actigraphy and others to a high standard.
- Demonstrate a wide knowledge of highly specialist respiratory function testing using national (ARTP) and international (ERS/ATS) guidelines and be able teach and develop other staff members to a high standard.
- Awareness of cultural and social influences on health and of the importance of respecting diversity and differences
Desirable
- Experience setting up and conducting clinical audit and/or research in a clinical area.
- Evidence of formal/informal teaching.
- Evidence of project team participation.
- Experience of Sentrysuite software.
- Experience of Visi-Download, Domino, REMLogic and Noxturnal.
- Experience of CPAP therapy including troubleshooting and set up.
- Experience of leading teaching and development of various courses to include the STP, PTP and professional courses (e.g. ARTP, RPSGT).
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level qualification in clinical physiology or other science related degree topic. The degree subject must be relevant to the specialism and include Human Anatomy and Physiology and research skills.
- Master's level qualification or equivalent experience in clinical physiology or other science related degree topic. The degree subject must be relevant to the specialism and include Human Anatomy and Physiology and research skills.
Desirable
- HCPC registered Clinical Scientist in Respiratory and Sleep or RCCP/AHCS registration.
- Mentorship training
- Educational or assessing qualifications.
- ESRS Technologist Examination in Sleep Medicine
- RPSGT
- ARTP Practitioner Certificate
- AHCS/RCCP Registration.
- ARTP/BSS/ESRS membership
- ARTP CPAP certificate or other appropriate CPAP qualification or experience.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working across a sleep and/or respiratory physiology department, particularly relating to education, patient assessment and treatment planning.
- A high degree of proficiency using computers and the Microsoft Office Suite.
- Be able to problem solve using initiative to plan and organise work for themselves and others including in acute scenarios, taking a lead role in specialist circumstances such as during specialist testing.
- Be able to lead, coordinate and facilitate and support learning and training of themselves and others.
- Be able to lead, coordinate and facilitate departmental policy changes, implementing them efficiently.
- Demonstrate highly specialist knowledge of sleep and its disorders and the treatment of sleep disorders including sleep disordered breathing.
- Demonstrate highly specialist knowledge of respiratory physiology and its disorders.
- Demonstrate a wide highly specialist knowledge of sleep testing using international scoring rules and ability to set up, score and report Polysomnography, Respiratory polygraphy, actigraphy and others to a high standard.
- Demonstrate a wide knowledge of highly specialist respiratory function testing using national (ARTP) and international (ERS/ATS) guidelines and be able teach and develop other staff members to a high standard.
- Awareness of cultural and social influences on health and of the importance of respecting diversity and differences
Desirable
- Experience setting up and conducting clinical audit and/or research in a clinical area.
- Evidence of formal/informal teaching.
- Evidence of project team participation.
- Experience of Sentrysuite software.
- Experience of Visi-Download, Domino, REMLogic and Noxturnal.
- Experience of CPAP therapy including troubleshooting and set up.
- Experience of leading teaching and development of various courses to include the STP, PTP and professional courses (e.g. ARTP, RPSGT).
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
