Job summary
We are
looking for a Sleep Physiologist / Allied Health Professional to become part of
our expanding Sleep Team. We have established
a satellite service in the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Rodney Road and
this role would enable the right person to undergo training to become a Band 5
Sleep Physiologist supporting both the CDC and our main centre at QA.
We are a lively
multidisciplinary team consisting of doctors, nurses, physiologists, a polysomnographer,
technicians and clerical staff and we are looking to recruit a Trainee Band 5 who
will benefit from first class training and mentorship.
You must be
able to undertake practical and academic training, be flexible and adaptable in
your attitude to work and enjoy being part of a very busy service, where once
trained, you can demonstrate your initiative and reliability. You will also be provided with training to
develop your leadership and management skills.
If you are looking for a challenge and want to benefit
from this unique and exciting opportunity we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Our service offers a comprehensive range of sleep assessments including: overnight
pulse oximetry, domiciliary polygraphy studies, full polysomnography, multiple
sleep latency testing and maintenance of wakefulness tests. We also offer student
training and provide training to other PHT employees at various levels.
The role will involve over time becoming an autonomous practitioner in
sleep study analysis, CPAP set ups, CPAP compliance monitoring, patient follow
up, and CPAP troubleshooting. You will
also become an active participant in multidisciplinary team meetings, as well
as engaging in team audits and education.
We will fully support you on your journey and you will benefit from a
mixture of training opportunities, ranging from formal courses, to learning in
the role working with our highly experienced senior team members.
About us
The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in
terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender
identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans
status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
- To provide specialist care as part of the multi-disciplinary sleep team.
- To work as an autonomous practitioner involved in the diagnosis, treatment and on-going support of patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.
- As an autonomous practitioner provide a point of contact for these patients as well as their carers and other health care professionals to obtain advice, education and support.
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical/Professional
- Work autonomously with the assistance of protocols to practice in an effective nurse/physiology led sleep service.
- Provide a supportive environment for patients and their partners with sleep disorders.
- Ensure effective communication occurs between health professionals to promote patient care.
- Run CPAP set up clinics, follow up clinics and troubleshoot clinics.
- Act as an expert practitioner and professional role model, demonstrate advanced clinical skills, promote clinical excellence and ensure an optimum standard of nursing care is delivered from referral to discharge.
- Monitor the use of resources when implementing treatments. Inform the senior nurse/physiologist of deviations from the budget.
- Demonstrate a commitment to evidence based practice, highlight areas for change then initiate and evaluate evidence to improve and develop patient care.
- Maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the job, participate in appropriate training activities.
- Demonstrate expertise and share in depth knowledge and skills with other members of the multi-disciplinary team with relation to sleep medicine.
- Demonstrate competence in the working of computers.
- Take responsibility for the implementation, maintenance and evaluation of evidence based clinical standards.
- Demonstrate knowledge of laws with relation to sleep disorders particularly with regards the DVLA.
- Facilitate patients to take an active role in improving lifestyle choices, smoking, weight, alcohol, drugs.
- Participate in team meetings and be involved in the development of the sleep service.
Management/Leadership
- Always demonstrate effective leadership to other health professionals in the management of patients with sleep and associated conditions.
- Communicate effectively, to health professionals and health commissioners the benefits of a patient-centered service for patients and health economics.
- Build support for change in service management by using effective influencing and negotiating strategies to include key stakeholders, including hospital managers, primary care fund-holders and NHS England.
- Demonstrate competency and confidence in leading change, liaising with departments and individuals to improve and minimize problems experienced by patients.
- Be able to constructively challenge professionals at all levels as an advocate for patient wishes and preferences in managing disease.
- Demonstrate supervisory skills for junior medical and nursing staff.
- Utilise Trusts Policies, Procedures and Guidelines actively contributing to their development.
- Demonstrate efficient use and utilization of resources, taking any recommendations to the lead nurse.
- Demonstrate effective management of patients with sleep and associated conditions.
- Demonstrate knowledge of effective multi-disciplinary teamwork and the role of individual team members.
- Deal personally with patients, relatives or visitors who make a complaint in line with Trust policy.
- Demonstrate advisory skills to staff in dealing with complaints.
- Maintain appropriate records, adhering to Nursing and Midwifery Council and Trust guidelines on record keeping.
- Deal with emotional and psychological issues as they arise.
- To be responsible for managing risk for patient specialty, in accordance with the Trust Risk policies and arrangements.
Research and Education
- Provide teaching to the MDT and develop and maintain the learning environment in sleep and associated conditions.
- Educate and support patients with sleep and associated conditions.
- Provide information for patients, carers and other health-care professionals with sleep and associated conditions.
- Assist in the evaluation of the service and patient care, including patient satisfaction.
- Liaise with other colleagues in local and national forums to influence and improve respiratory care.
- Be responsible for professional development using Personal Development Plan and professional portfolio.
- Incorporate health education and health promotion in working practices.
- Lead in the dissemination and implementation of evidenced based care in the writing of shared guidelines/protocols for patients with sleep disorders.
- Lead, where appropriate, in multi-disciplinary clinical audit.
Communication and Working Relations
- Communicate highly sensitive and complex information with empathy ensuring that information is understood.
- Ensure patients, their carers and the MDT have access to specialist information and provide care that that meets individual patients needs at all stages of the care pathway. This includes the provision of telephone support/ advice.
- Adjust communication strategies to deal with situation face 2 face, telephone, video consultations.
- Communicating and co-operating with other specialist areas, promoting and maintaining good working relationships within own clinical area and across the organisation, giving accurate information as required.
- An active member of the clinical team contributing to Trust wide groups and meetings.
- Develop expertise in dealing with interpersonal conflict and be responsible for the resolution of any adverse situation/incidents. Comply and promote compliance to Trust policies e.g. Harassment and Bullying.
Working Conditions
- Working within a outpatient clinic environment that occasionally requires rapid response to unpredictable events.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
- To provide specialist care as part of the multi-disciplinary sleep team.
- To work as an autonomous practitioner involved in the diagnosis, treatment and on-going support of patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.
- As an autonomous practitioner provide a point of contact for these patients as well as their carers and other health care professionals to obtain advice, education and support.
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical/Professional
- Work autonomously with the assistance of protocols to practice in an effective nurse/physiology led sleep service.
- Provide a supportive environment for patients and their partners with sleep disorders.
- Ensure effective communication occurs between health professionals to promote patient care.
- Run CPAP set up clinics, follow up clinics and troubleshoot clinics.
- Act as an expert practitioner and professional role model, demonstrate advanced clinical skills, promote clinical excellence and ensure an optimum standard of nursing care is delivered from referral to discharge.
- Monitor the use of resources when implementing treatments. Inform the senior nurse/physiologist of deviations from the budget.
- Demonstrate a commitment to evidence based practice, highlight areas for change then initiate and evaluate evidence to improve and develop patient care.
- Maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the job, participate in appropriate training activities.
- Demonstrate expertise and share in depth knowledge and skills with other members of the multi-disciplinary team with relation to sleep medicine.
- Demonstrate competence in the working of computers.
- Take responsibility for the implementation, maintenance and evaluation of evidence based clinical standards.
- Demonstrate knowledge of laws with relation to sleep disorders particularly with regards the DVLA.
- Facilitate patients to take an active role in improving lifestyle choices, smoking, weight, alcohol, drugs.
- Participate in team meetings and be involved in the development of the sleep service.
Management/Leadership
- Always demonstrate effective leadership to other health professionals in the management of patients with sleep and associated conditions.
- Communicate effectively, to health professionals and health commissioners the benefits of a patient-centered service for patients and health economics.
- Build support for change in service management by using effective influencing and negotiating strategies to include key stakeholders, including hospital managers, primary care fund-holders and NHS England.
- Demonstrate competency and confidence in leading change, liaising with departments and individuals to improve and minimize problems experienced by patients.
- Be able to constructively challenge professionals at all levels as an advocate for patient wishes and preferences in managing disease.
- Demonstrate supervisory skills for junior medical and nursing staff.
- Utilise Trusts Policies, Procedures and Guidelines actively contributing to their development.
- Demonstrate efficient use and utilization of resources, taking any recommendations to the lead nurse.
- Demonstrate effective management of patients with sleep and associated conditions.
- Demonstrate knowledge of effective multi-disciplinary teamwork and the role of individual team members.
- Deal personally with patients, relatives or visitors who make a complaint in line with Trust policy.
- Demonstrate advisory skills to staff in dealing with complaints.
- Maintain appropriate records, adhering to Nursing and Midwifery Council and Trust guidelines on record keeping.
- Deal with emotional and psychological issues as they arise.
- To be responsible for managing risk for patient specialty, in accordance with the Trust Risk policies and arrangements.
Research and Education
- Provide teaching to the MDT and develop and maintain the learning environment in sleep and associated conditions.
- Educate and support patients with sleep and associated conditions.
- Provide information for patients, carers and other health-care professionals with sleep and associated conditions.
- Assist in the evaluation of the service and patient care, including patient satisfaction.
- Liaise with other colleagues in local and national forums to influence and improve respiratory care.
- Be responsible for professional development using Personal Development Plan and professional portfolio.
- Incorporate health education and health promotion in working practices.
- Lead in the dissemination and implementation of evidenced based care in the writing of shared guidelines/protocols for patients with sleep disorders.
- Lead, where appropriate, in multi-disciplinary clinical audit.
Communication and Working Relations
- Communicate highly sensitive and complex information with empathy ensuring that information is understood.
- Ensure patients, their carers and the MDT have access to specialist information and provide care that that meets individual patients needs at all stages of the care pathway. This includes the provision of telephone support/ advice.
- Adjust communication strategies to deal with situation face 2 face, telephone, video consultations.
- Communicating and co-operating with other specialist areas, promoting and maintaining good working relationships within own clinical area and across the organisation, giving accurate information as required.
- An active member of the clinical team contributing to Trust wide groups and meetings.
- Develop expertise in dealing with interpersonal conflict and be responsible for the resolution of any adverse situation/incidents. Comply and promote compliance to Trust policies e.g. Harassment and Bullying.
Working Conditions
- Working within a outpatient clinic environment that occasionally requires rapid response to unpredictable events.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical decision-making skills.
- Advanced Communication Skills Training.
- Organisational skills and forward planning.
- Flexibility.
- Critical appraisal skills.
- Strong customer service skills.
- IT literate.
Qualifications
Essential
- Current practicing Sleep or Respiratory Physiologist or Allied Health Professional.
- Registration with NMC or other professional body (for Band 6).
- BSc Degree in relevant field (Desirable - Masters degree and evidence of working towards).
- Minimum 4 years post registration experience.
Desirable
- Post Reg. qualifications in respiratory or sleep medicine.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical decision-making skills.
- Advanced Communication Skills Training.
- Organisational skills and forward planning.
- Flexibility.
- Critical appraisal skills.
- Strong customer service skills.
- IT literate.
Qualifications
Essential
- Current practicing Sleep or Respiratory Physiologist or Allied Health Professional.
- Registration with NMC or other professional body (for Band 6).
- BSc Degree in relevant field (Desirable - Masters degree and evidence of working towards).
- Minimum 4 years post registration experience.
Desirable
- Post Reg. qualifications in respiratory or sleep medicine.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
