Job summary
- Main area
- RESPIRATORY AND SLEEP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-6381630
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/07/2024
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Sleep/CPAP Technician- Respiratory Service
NHS AfC: Band 4
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in health care setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience working with Sleep Disorder Patients
- Experience using CPAP with patient
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding
- Flexibility and team participation
- Good IT skills
- Ability to perform basic clinical observations such as BP, Pulse, Oxygen Saturations
- Ability to organise own workload independently
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of basic sleep disorders and treatments
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of Lorenzo ( patient administration system)
- Used CPAP platform ‘Airview’
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good basic education
- NVQ 3
Desirable criteria
- Health care science
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Priya Nair
- Job title
- Chief Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 284898
- Additional information
Jack Ridler , Chief Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist
01438 284898
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