Trainee Respiratory Healthcare Science Practitioner

Job summary

Are you ready to embark on a career path that combines the use of specialist equipment, advanced technologies, and a range of different procedures to evaluate the functioning of the Respiratory System, to diagnose abnormalities, to direct and provide therapeutic intervention and long-term management and care?

If so, you are invited to apply for an exciting opportunity of becoming a Trainee Healthcare Science Practitioner specialising in Respiratory & Sleep. Over a condensed period you will be fully supported and developed within our friendly and inclusive Respiratory & Sleep Physiological Science Team alongside completion of a Post Graduate Diploma in Respiratory Science to become a Respiratory & Sleep Healthcare Science Practitioner.

As part of this busy and dynamic team you will become able to work effectively and efficiently both alone and as part of team, you must have the ability to organize and prioritise your own workload and work flexibly in line with changes in clinical demands across all our hospital sites, King's Mill, Newark and Mansfield Community.

The role will include training to perform and report a range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in Respiratory and Sleep Physiology. The successful applicant must have excellent communication skills, effective time management and the ability to self motivate. Combined with a pleasant outgoing manner; be interested in and have knowledge of Respiratory Physiology in addition to strong IT skills.

Main duties of the job

Subject to acceptance it is between September 2026 and September 2027 it is hoped the successful candidate will undertake a Post Graduate Diploma in Respiratory Science; alongside in house clinical training across the Sherwood Forest Hospitals sites from the date of successful appointment.

Attendance at university is required typically in blocks 2- 3 times/year; the university fees associated with the PGDip course as well as travelling expenses and hotel accommodation will be covered.

In addition to this summary you should familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this vacancy.

Entry and equivalent qualifications are based on the Post Grad Diploma Respiratory Science please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.