Job summary
The sleep service in MYTT looks after more than 5000 established CPAP patients and consists of an MDT of Physiologists, Nurses and Doctors. As a team we perform sleep diagnostics on all referred patients into the service for a range of sleep disorders from simple obstructive sleep apnoea to complex sleep parasomnias. Approximately 500 new referrals are received a year.
The results of these are all reviewed and patients are seen in the out patient setting for a full sleep assessment to give a diagnosis. The post holder will form part of this team and will set the patients onto their given treatment plan, whilst ensuring optimal standards of care is provided to patient.
Main duties of the job
The job holder will:
- Triage referred patient for sleep diagnostics, analyse results and formulate reports where appropriate
- Perform clinical assessments of referred patients in the outpatient setting including formulating a diagnosis and treatment planning
- Reporting of sleep diagnostic tests and the dissemination of these results to the original referrer or deliver CPAP, BiPAP and Auto Sv review clinics where appropriate
- Undertake clinical supervision and training of junior and trainee physiology/ nursing staff and other professional groups
- Participate in Continuing Professional Development and other developmental activities, including research and clinical trials
- Work with Team Leaders and the Service Manager in further developing the sleep diagnostic and sleep therapy services.
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people in
Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our
three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of
innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our
workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful
and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid
Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm
irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and
gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation,
or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to
someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the
LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently
under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from
members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all
applicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable
guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If
you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our
patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Leadership and management
- Provides leadership to the designated team
- Investigates and responds to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events
- Ensures the safe use and efficient management of equipment and supplies within the team
- Takes responsibility for setting, monitoring and seeking to continuously improve standards and the quality of care delivered to patients
- Promotes evidence based practice, wherever possible
- Implements policies and proposes change to practice for own specialist area
- Deputises for the clinical service manager
- Along with the clinical service manager has responsibility for managing staffing capacity and service need for effective clinical cover
- Contributes to the development of specialist protocols for specialist area
- Engages users on service delivery and development.
Clinical skills
- Acts in accordance with the Professional Code of Conduct
- Maintains a safe working environment
- Works as a specialist practitioner within established Trust and departmental policies
- Act as a source of expertise within their designated area
- Lead and promote programmes of health education and health promotion relevant to service
- Undertake clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required and performs a broad range of highly specialist and complex investigations providing accurate factual reports following analysis and interpretation of physiological data
- Routinely undertakes assessment of both in-patients and out-patients prior to a range of Respiratory and Sleep investigations and uses own discretion in order to ensure the patient is suitable for the investigation where appropriate
- Makes informed decisions whilst working in the outpatient sleep clinic and provides diagnoses to patients based on the sleep assessment , physical assessment of the patient and test results
- Supervises and assesses the work of others within the designated team
- Works within and towards national guidelines and directives, e.g. NICE, NSF
- Reports clinical incidents and adverse events to the Service Manager and external agencies as required.
- Provides clinical leadership and acts as a role model to the designated clinical physiology or nursing team by delivering high quality care as an expert practitioner. Giving lead specialist advice as required
- Apply and use technology consistent with evidence of good practice
- Prepare and maintain specialist equipment, ensuring overall functionality and comparing overall performance with standardisations
- Participate in Clinical Research Trials as directed by lead Physician
Analytical skills
- Interpret and present findings and outcomes of all diagnostic procedures undertaken
- Make recommendations based on valid interpretation of available information
Teaching/Training/Assessing
- Take responsibility for own continuing professional development, identifying own development needs in relation to current practice, and attending relevant courses etc.
- Apply own learning to future development of service
- Contribute to, and support learning and development of others, accessing appropriate learning opportunities, and encouraging professional development
- Actively participate in training of trainees and other staff, with specialist training for clinical staff, to include planning and delivery of training activities
- Objectively assess the work of individuals within areas of specialisation, providing clear and constructive feedback, and agreeing courses of action to address issues, raising issues and related risks with relevant people
Planning & Policy
- Evaluate own and team work, making constructive suggestions as to how services can be improved, seeking appropriate support for recommended/necessary changes, and implementing change
Administrative
- Maintain accurate patient record
- Input data, test results and reports into computerised system
- Ensure others are processing data accurately, with an appropriate level of detail and in the agreed format, making amendments and highlighting problems as necessary
Communication
- Maintains accurate clinical and other records in accordance with Trust policy
- Ensure appropriate clinical record keeping within the designated team
- Support patients and their families, communicating sensitive information about routine and complex investigations ensuring they receive the required information to enable them to participate in their care delivery
- Communicate effectively with technical, nursing medical and allied health profession colleagues, providing technical advice relating to specific patient care
- Communicate effectively with technical, nursing medical and allied health profession colleagues in a training/educational role
- Communicate effectively with manufacturers and technical specialists
Patient/Carer contact
- Able to treat patients and relatives/carers with respect and consideration, maintaining emotional awareness in distressing circumstances
- Communicate effectively with patients and relatives/carers, using verbal and non verbal communication, ensuring understanding of what is being communicated, and taking into account patient communication problems, difficulty in understanding, stressful situations/aggression, and requirement for persuasion/reassurance
Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
- The postholder has a general responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Leadership and management
- Provides leadership to the designated team
- Investigates and responds to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events
- Ensures the safe use and efficient management of equipment and supplies within the team
- Takes responsibility for setting, monitoring and seeking to continuously improve standards and the quality of care delivered to patients
- Promotes evidence based practice, wherever possible
- Implements policies and proposes change to practice for own specialist area
- Deputises for the clinical service manager
- Along with the clinical service manager has responsibility for managing staffing capacity and service need for effective clinical cover
- Contributes to the development of specialist protocols for specialist area
- Engages users on service delivery and development.
Clinical skills
- Acts in accordance with the Professional Code of Conduct
- Maintains a safe working environment
- Works as a specialist practitioner within established Trust and departmental policies
- Act as a source of expertise within their designated area
- Lead and promote programmes of health education and health promotion relevant to service
- Undertake clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required and performs a broad range of highly specialist and complex investigations providing accurate factual reports following analysis and interpretation of physiological data
- Routinely undertakes assessment of both in-patients and out-patients prior to a range of Respiratory and Sleep investigations and uses own discretion in order to ensure the patient is suitable for the investigation where appropriate
- Makes informed decisions whilst working in the outpatient sleep clinic and provides diagnoses to patients based on the sleep assessment , physical assessment of the patient and test results
- Supervises and assesses the work of others within the designated team
- Works within and towards national guidelines and directives, e.g. NICE, NSF
- Reports clinical incidents and adverse events to the Service Manager and external agencies as required.
- Provides clinical leadership and acts as a role model to the designated clinical physiology or nursing team by delivering high quality care as an expert practitioner. Giving lead specialist advice as required
- Apply and use technology consistent with evidence of good practice
- Prepare and maintain specialist equipment, ensuring overall functionality and comparing overall performance with standardisations
- Participate in Clinical Research Trials as directed by lead Physician
Analytical skills
- Interpret and present findings and outcomes of all diagnostic procedures undertaken
- Make recommendations based on valid interpretation of available information
Teaching/Training/Assessing
- Take responsibility for own continuing professional development, identifying own development needs in relation to current practice, and attending relevant courses etc.
- Apply own learning to future development of service
- Contribute to, and support learning and development of others, accessing appropriate learning opportunities, and encouraging professional development
- Actively participate in training of trainees and other staff, with specialist training for clinical staff, to include planning and delivery of training activities
- Objectively assess the work of individuals within areas of specialisation, providing clear and constructive feedback, and agreeing courses of action to address issues, raising issues and related risks with relevant people
Planning & Policy
- Evaluate own and team work, making constructive suggestions as to how services can be improved, seeking appropriate support for recommended/necessary changes, and implementing change
Administrative
- Maintain accurate patient record
- Input data, test results and reports into computerised system
- Ensure others are processing data accurately, with an appropriate level of detail and in the agreed format, making amendments and highlighting problems as necessary
Communication
- Maintains accurate clinical and other records in accordance with Trust policy
- Ensure appropriate clinical record keeping within the designated team
- Support patients and their families, communicating sensitive information about routine and complex investigations ensuring they receive the required information to enable them to participate in their care delivery
- Communicate effectively with technical, nursing medical and allied health profession colleagues, providing technical advice relating to specific patient care
- Communicate effectively with technical, nursing medical and allied health profession colleagues in a training/educational role
- Communicate effectively with manufacturers and technical specialists
Patient/Carer contact
- Able to treat patients and relatives/carers with respect and consideration, maintaining emotional awareness in distressing circumstances
- Communicate effectively with patients and relatives/carers, using verbal and non verbal communication, ensuring understanding of what is being communicated, and taking into account patient communication problems, difficulty in understanding, stressful situations/aggression, and requirement for persuasion/reassurance
Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
- The postholder has a general responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post qualification experience along with current experience and evidence of continuing professional development
- Audit & Standard setting
- Specialist knowledge in field of practice
- Current issues in healthcare
- In-depth experience and knowledge of highly specialist investigations and techniques within specialist area
- Willing to undergo training as necessary
- Specialist experience relevant to role
Desirable
- Service development
- Experience with the management of staff
- Previous experience working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist/ Highly specialist Sleep Physiologist
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree Level Education or equivalent
- Professional accreditation / registration
- Registered nurse
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Post Graduate qualification in relevant field
- Teaching or training qualification
Knowledge and awareness
Essential
- Understands the need for confidentiality
- Awareness of health and safety requirements
- Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload
- Awareness of own limitations
- Understand the national specialty and professional agenda
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good hand/eye co-ordination skills and manual dexterity
- Able to concentrate for prolonged periods during acquisition of diagnostic data
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- IT skills
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to manoeuvre often heavy/cumbersome medical equipment
- Able to provide physical support in assisting patients to transfer, with occasional requirement to manoeuvre patients full body weight in emergency situations
Desirable
- Recruitment and selection experience
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Positive attitude, self-motivated, enthusiastic and approachable
- Team player
- Commitment to developing self and others to enhance performance
- Calm and objective
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post qualification experience along with current experience and evidence of continuing professional development
- Audit & Standard setting
- Specialist knowledge in field of practice
- Current issues in healthcare
- In-depth experience and knowledge of highly specialist investigations and techniques within specialist area
- Willing to undergo training as necessary
- Specialist experience relevant to role
Desirable
- Service development
- Experience with the management of staff
- Previous experience working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist/ Highly specialist Sleep Physiologist
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree Level Education or equivalent
- Professional accreditation / registration
- Registered nurse
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Post Graduate qualification in relevant field
- Teaching or training qualification
Knowledge and awareness
Essential
- Understands the need for confidentiality
- Awareness of health and safety requirements
- Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload
- Awareness of own limitations
- Understand the national specialty and professional agenda
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good hand/eye co-ordination skills and manual dexterity
- Able to concentrate for prolonged periods during acquisition of diagnostic data
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- IT skills
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to manoeuvre often heavy/cumbersome medical equipment
- Able to provide physical support in assisting patients to transfer, with occasional requirement to manoeuvre patients full body weight in emergency situations
Desirable
- Recruitment and selection experience
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Positive attitude, self-motivated, enthusiastic and approachable
- Team player
- Commitment to developing self and others to enhance performance
- Calm and objective
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).
