Senior Respiratory Physiologist - Reading, United Kingdom - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

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Reading, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the respiratory physiology team here at Royal Berkshire as a Senior Physiologist.

To train departmental staff to perform the basic respiratory physiological measurements in accordance with ARTP/BTS National Guidelines and local standards.

To mentor and assist in the development and training of physiology staff members.

The instruction of student nurses and doctors, trainee physiotherapists and pharmacists, junior doctors, staff nurses, GPs and practice nurses in various aspects of physiology.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton.

With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our values:

Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

We are one of the largest hospital foundation trusts in the country, and currently touch the lives of half a million patients in the west of Berkshire every year by providing high quality acute medical and surgical services for our local communities.

To supervise the physiology team in the daily running of the service involving:
Perform diagnostic tests to nationally recognised standards for accuracy and quality.

To carry out the following investigations:

Spirometry (measurement of dynamic flows and volumes)
Measurement of static lung volumes by helium dilution technique, nitrogen washout and body plethysmography.
Gas transfer for Carbon Monoxide by single breath technique
Bronchodilator Response Testing
Field exercise tests (6 minute walk test; shuttle test; 6 minute step exercise test).
Ambulatory oxygen assessment (when required).
Measurement of respiratory muscle strength (MIP/MEP; SNIP tests; postural Spirometry, peak cough flow).
To perform hypoxic inhalation tests (fitness to fly).
To perform histamine challenge tests.
To perform earlobe blood gas sampling and analysis.
To perform fraction exhaled Nitric Oxide testing (FeNO)
To perform a range of diagnostic tests in patients who have suspected sleep related breathing disorders.
To perform CPAP Trial set ups for patients with diagnosed sleep disordered breathing
To perform the review of CPAP therapy for patients with diagnosed sleep disordered breathing who are on CPAP treatment.
To perform the initiation and review of therapy for patients receiving NIV treatment.
To provide the mobile respiratory physiology service at the trust spoke sites.
To provide Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET). This includes investigation of exertional dypsnoea and preoperative assessment.
To provide Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction (EIB) challenge tests for the investigation of exercise induced asthma.