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The department provides a consistently high quality comprehensive (regional) Clinical Neurophysiological investigative Service (including highly complex specialist investigations) to patients of all ages from a large range of specialities suffering from a wide variety of medical disorders including those which may be neurological and/or psychiatric in nature. 

Some of the duties include:

·         To provide highly complex, specialist Clinical Neurophysiological services to patients of all ages, from a range of specialties suffering from a wide variety of medical disorders, including those which may be neurological and/or psychiatric in nature

·         To maintain personal professional skills at the highest level.

·         To develop and / or maintain a specific part of the specialty as agreed.

·         To take responsibility for the planning, organisation, development and quality assurance of the service that the specific role applies to (e.g. home video telemetry recording, Evoked potentials, NCS).

·         Work collaboratively in planning strategies (medium and long term) to develop Neurophysiology services overall.

·         Work collaboratively on a day-to-day basis with others to ensure that the service needs are met.

·         Deputising for the Neurophysiology Manager/Senior Chief as and when requested to do so. This is a shared responsibility with other Band 7s.

·         To undertake interpretation of results and provision of factual / technical reports to clinicians for all tests.

·         Supervision of trainees and junior staff.

·         To initiate and participate in quality assurance, audit and / or research and development programmes.

·         To carry out duties as requested by the Neurophysiology Manager and to be supportive in the deputising role. 

Plan, perform and interpret a range of advanced  Neurophysiological investigations including specialised tests, using highly complex medical equipment, to a high level of competence on patients of all ages - these may include:

·         Electroencephalographic (EEG) investigations employing current standard techniques without supervision in the EEG laboratory taking appropriate action(s) where necessary.  

·         Portable EEG’s on the ward.

Emergency EEG’s on ITU’s (Intensive Therapy Units), SCBU’s (Special Care Baby Units) or general wards – this could be at any hospital covered by the department and appropriate action should be taken where necessary.

·         EEG investigations using special techniques. These include activated recordings, recordings following sleep deprivation, recordings during administration of medication (e.g. melatonin, diazepam, pyridoxine), recording during stimulation of a non-routine nature, e.g. postural change and exercise.

·         Long term video EEG monitoring and long term home video ambulatory telemetry EEG monitoring, taking appropriate action(s) to ensure best outcomes.

·         Nerve Conduction Studies for Carpal Tunnel syndrome and other peripheral nerve conditions.

·         Assist with EMG (Electromyography) examinations, NCS (Nerve Conduction Studies) in Medical Consultant clinics if needed.

·         Perform multi-modality evoked potentials taking appropriate action(s) where necessary. These include Visual Evoked Potentials, Sensory Evoked Potentials.

·         Write accurate factual reports on a range of Neurophysiological investigations.

Maintain Continuous Professional Development appropriate to the range of Neurophysiology services for patients

Contribute to effective organisation of information resources, ensuring effective and administrative patient reporting and data storage / archiving in conjuction with the Administration staff in the department