Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Respiratory Physiologist

The closing date is 24 November 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Respiratory Physiologist to join the Clinical Physiology team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The role is full time Monday-Friday and based mainly at St James Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary. There may be occasional requirement to support our community diagnostic centres at Armley and Beeston. The respiratory physiology team consists of Associate practitioners, Senior Physiologists, students and management. We support the wider MDT with the performance of simple and complex diagnostics and there is opportunity for continued career development.

In this dynamic clinical environment, you will be responsible for performing and interpreting a range of lung function tests , supporting community diagnostic centres and the sleep service with CPAP clinics.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional patient care with the autonomy to make appropriate clinical decisions. In addition, excellent organisational skills, team working and leadership are essential to this role.

Main duties of the job

As a Respiratory Physiologist you will play a vital role in delivering a range of diagnostic tests according to national standards. The candidate will be responsible for performing full lung function testing, walk tests, muscle function testing, capillary blood gases, sleep diagnostics and CPAP clinics. You should be familiar with and contribute to wider departmental service developments such as audit, innovation and governance procedures.

Your daily duties will be varied according to service demand but will be predominantly based in the respiratory function laboratories performing and interpreting a range of respiratory and sleep investigations on a wide range of patients. This may include inpatient testing as well as paediatrics. The ideal candidate will have experience of performing all respiratory investigation as listed.

This role requires excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team, helping to maintain a positive and efficient service environment.

About us

Come and join our team in Leeds and become part of The Leeds Way sharing our vision and values. Our Trust is recognised for our staff engagement, great care and rated GOOD by the Care Quality Commission.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute health providers in the UK and based in one of the fastest growing and vibrant cities in the north.

At Cardio-Respiratory CSU, we aim to be a fair and supportive CSU with positive, caring teams who are champions of the Leeds Way values. Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9298-CRS-313

Job locations

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Job description

Job responsibilities

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Clinical Duties

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspect of own work, including the management of patients in your care.

Routinely undertakes assessment of both in-patients and out-patients prior to a range of respiratory investigations to ensure the patient is suitable for the investigation.

Provides clinical technical advice to patients and other members of the multi-disciplinary team within Respiratory and to other trust-wide departments.

Carries out all aspects of clinical work as approved by their Line Manager.

Works as an autonomous practitioner within established departmental policies and those recognised by international organisations (e.g. European Respiratory Society (ERS), British Thoracic Society (BTS - UK)

Seeks advice from more experienced staff members when/if required.

Communicates with all members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible care for patients by using negotiating, reassurance and persuasiveness skills.

Communicates information about routine respiratory investigations to patients and relatives/carers including children and those with learning and/or physical disabilities.

Calibrates and manipulates a wide range of technical equipment which processes, creates, updates and stores information.

Carries out a broad range of fundamental respiratory investigations and provides accurate and factual reports following analysis and interpretation of physiological data.

Performs/facilitates a number of the following investigations on a range of respiratory and medical patients including paediatric, elderly and those with a range of physical and learning disabilities:

- Spirometry

- Flow Volume Loops

- Lung Volumes

- Airways Resistance

- Transfer Factor

- Reversibility Studies

- 6 Minute Walks

- Incremental Shuttle Walk Tests

- Mouth Pressure Tests

- Sniff Inspiratory Nasal Pressures

- Sitting and Supine Vital Capacity

- Capillary Blood Gas

- Hypoxic Challenge Test

- Mannitol Challenge Tests

- Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Tests

- Overnight Oximetry

- Respiratory Variable Sleep Studies

- Full Polysomnography

- Osler Studies

- Actigraphy Studies

Reports equipment faults in accordance with departmental policy.

Demonstrates personal duty of care for safe use of expensive and highly complex equipment.

Maintains stock levels of consumable items.

Responsible for day to day security of expensive equipment e.g. sleep equipment.

Professional

Responsible for maintaining own technical competencies in clinical areas.

Maintain state registration.

Responsible for reporting clinical incidents and adverse events to the appropriate Highly Specialist Respiratory Physiologist / Team Manager and/or Head of Services.

Be an active member of the in-service training programme by attendance at, and participation in, in-service training programmes, tutorials, individual training sessions, external courses and peer review.

Undertakes Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in accordance with Personal Development Plan (PDP) as developed with Line Manager.

Attends and participates in departmental staff meetings.

Maintains and develops current knowledge of evidence based practice in the each clinical area.

Undertakes collection of data for use in audit, research projects and equipment testing.

Regularly provides training and supervision in fundamental respiratory techniques to Trainee Respiratory Physiologists and junior staff members.

Organisational

Demonstrates the ability to organise and plan own clinical caseload to meet service and patient priorities.