Sleep/CPAP Technician- Respiratory Service

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Sleep/CPAP Technician who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This post holder will undertake Sleep Diagnostics and CPAP clinics at both Lister and Hertford County Hospitals.

You will be responsible for the management of all equipment involved in the clinics, ensuring excellent infection control procedures.

You must be able to communicate effectively with all members of the team and patients.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

As a Sleep/CPAP Technician you will work to clear guidelines in the planning, implementation and evaluation of care of sleep and CPAP patients.

Work collaboratively and cooperatively with others to meet the needs of patients and their families.

Participate in the development of self and others.

The post holder will work closely with the sleep specialists, to support adults suffering with potential sleep disorders, performing, taking bloods and clinical observations.

The post holder will be responsible for setting up new patients with domiciliary sleep studies, downloading data and infection control management of equipment.

Review adult outpatients suffering with obstructive sleep apnoea who currently use CPAP. Assess and monitor progress and evaluating interventions. Ensuring safe management and improving the health status of this patient group.

Maintain and update the sleep database in conjunction with other members of the team.

Take part in research projects.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister hospital

Coreys mill lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister hospital

Coreys mill lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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