Specialised Clinical Physiologist - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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3 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Clinical Physiologist to join our friendly Neurophysiology team as Specialised Clinical Physiologist.

The department is in the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.

This permanent position would be well suited to an individual who is looking to advance their career in Neurophysiology and gain experience in a wide range of diagnostic investigations.


You should be a qualified Clinical Physiologist in Neurophysiology with experience at an Associate Clinical Physiologist level as a minimum.

You must hold RCCP or HCPC registration. STP and PTP applicants waiting to qualify this year will be given full consideration.

  • Interview date: 6th July 202
  • The post is for 37 hours 30 minutes/week.
As a Specialised Clinical Physiologist you will be involved in an extensive range of clinical investigations including:

  • EEGs
  • routine, sleep, and portable recordings on patients of all ages with a wide variety of medical conditions.
  • Multimodality evoked potentials
  • Nerve conduction studies
  • Ambulatory EEG
  • Videotelemetry EEG both inpatient and home videotelemetry
  • Intracranial videotelemetry EEG
  • PSG and MSLT
  • Intraoperative monitoring.
Full training will be given for more complex investigations.


The department is actively involved in student training at STP and apprenticeship levels and you would be expected to be part of this.

An on-call rota operates at weekend and bank holidays between the hours of 9am-5pm.


Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.


Rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country.

This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
- represented groups.

  • Performs a range of basic and complex neurophysiological investigations on patients of all ages from a range of specialities suffering from a wide variety of medical disorders including those, which may be neurological and/or psychiatric in nature. This may be in the dedicated environment of the department or in nondedicated environment i.e. Intensive Therapy Unit at any location within the region.
  • Work with colleagues to ensure the efficient and effective running of the Clinical Neurophysiology Service on a daily basis.


As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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