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Job summary

Main area
Additional Clinical Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
470-24-0029-CJW
Employer
Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Mary's Hospital
Town
Newport, Isle of Wight
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 pro rata, per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59
Interview date
31/07/2024

Employer heading

Isle of Wight NHS Trust logo

Healthcare Scientist Assistant Respiratory & Sleep

NHS AfC: Band 3

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Healthcare Scientist Assistant Respiratory & Sleep who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

Main duties of the job

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

Working for our organisation

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will provide support to the Clinical Physiologists in the delivery of agreed standard of care to all patients.

Also providing administrative support for the Clinical Physiologists and support respiratory clinics in the need of spirometry and inhaler management.

To support sleep clinics including sleep studies and yearly CPAP clinics.

To ensure that relationships and own behaviour is managed in line with the Behaviour Framework competencies.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent.
  • Level 2 or GCSE Maths and English D and above.

Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to demonstrate knowledge in practice.
  • Must be able to work independently within agreed parameters and also within a team.

Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Previous Level 2 health experience.

Communication Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to liaise with colleagues, clinicians and other service users.
  • Can respond to general queries in an efficient and confident manner.
  • Knows who to direct more complex enquires to.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingArmed Forces Covenant

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tracy Jones
Job title
Consultant Clinical Scientist Respiratory & Sleep
Email address
[email protected]
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