Senior Sleep Physiologist - Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom - University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Description

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 sleep medicine, providing high standards of patient care in keeping with trust values.

The Senior physiologist / Healthcare Scientist works within the Sleep Physiology Service and in conjunction with the service lead and lead clinician to provide a specialist clinical services for the investigation and treatment of all sleep disorders', contributing to the development of a quality and cost effective service.

They will also assist in the co-ordinating of sleep physiology education and lead their own area of the service.

A key role will be to provide diagnostic and treatment support for patients with obstructive sleep apnoea and duties would include analysis of home multi-channel sleep studies and more complex inpatient studies, performing new patient clinics to diagnosis patients and create treatment plans, initiating patients onto CPAP therapy and monitoring those on long term therapy in physiologist/nurse led clinics.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. We serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research.

Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.

We have put together a wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us.

We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours.

We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working.

MSc in Clinical Physiology or BSc Clinical Physiology with equivalent experience or extensive experience
Knowledge of specialist procedures acquired through specialist/management courses or training/experience to advanced level e.g. highly complex polysomnography)
Teaching/Training certificate

A minimum of 2 years experience as an senior independent practitioner across the range of routine and specialised sleep investigations and therapeutic interventions with theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices
Specialist experience/training in areas of sleep measurement and therapeutics
Commissioning experience

Personal Qualities
Good interpersonal and inter agency working skills

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust