Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory and Sleep Physiology
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- *349-NMGH-6445364
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Manchester General Hospital
- Town
- Crumpsall
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Physiologist – Respiratory / Sleep
Band 6
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic well motivated individual to work within the respiratory and sleep physiology team at North Manchester General Hospital, part of the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a rapidly growing service and we require an individual with the drive and ambition to move the service forward within the evolving field of respiratory and sleep medicine, providing high standards of patient care in keeping with trust values.
Main duties of the job
Plan, perform, interpret, and provide reports on a wide range of Respiratory and Sleep physiological investigations to patients of all age groups, without supervision, employing current standards.
Initiate CPAP treatment where appropriate and conduct follow-up CPAP compliance reviews, face to face and remote.
Teaching, training and mentoring of students and junior staff.
There may be future need to travel to the subsequent diagnostic hubs in development across the Manchester area.
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022. We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.
So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) Clinical Physiology degree or equivalent.
- ARTP Part 1.
- RCCP/AHCS or HCPC registration.
Desirable criteria
- MSc (Hons) Clinical Physiology degree or equivalent.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of two years at Band 5.
- Competent at performing and interpreting, full lung function tests, respiratory muscle tests, capillary blood gases and challenge testing (histamine).
- Competent at performing, scoring and interpreting home polygraphy sleep studies.
- Experience of CPAP issue and after care with patients.
Desirable criteria
- Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Teaching, training and assessing experience.
- Experience with full video polysomnography.
- Experience in stock control.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in a variety of forms to patients, relatives and carers whose cognisance may be limited and where there are barriers to understanding.
- Able to undertake complex eye-hand co-ordination in the use of diagnostic equipment.
- Ability to keep accurate documentation.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
Desirable criteria
- Skilled in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
- Experience in use of Epic software.
Other
Essential criteria
- Training in highly specialist skills and knowledge within the relevant field.
- Motivated and organised.
- BLS.
- Moving and handling skills.
- Prepared to work at potential community diagnostic centres (CDC) on a rostered system.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to embrace change.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Nicola Smith
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01616045381
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