Assistant Technical Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

: The Lung Function Lab at Alder Hey Childrens Hospital is looking for an enthusiastic, Child and Young Person Centred, person to join the team. Since 2016, the Lung Function Lab has performed over 5000 tests per year with children and young people. The successful candidate will join a small hard working team challenged with performing high quality testing for departments such as Respiratory, Rheumatology, Cardiology and Surgery. The role will include performing basic Lung Function testing such as Spirometry (with reversibility), FeNO and Overnight Saturation and TOSCA monitoring. The post will also include day to day running of the lab with cleaning and sterilising of equipment and stock ordering key to the role.

A key part of the role will to be the main Lung Function advocate for the Cystic Fibrosis patients. The successful candidate will need to build up relationships with patients and families to ensure high quality results can be attained.

The post holder will need to work well in a team and have excellent communication skills for both patients and parents and also with other staff members.

This is a very exciting opportunity to join a forward thinking, growing service as part of a wider World Class Respiratory Team.

The Lung Function Labs vision is: To provide a high quality, child focused respiratory service with a skilled, motivated team to become a leader in paediatric care and research.

Key Relationships (detail below)

The successful candidate will need to have a good relationship with children and young people and be able to encourage and support them to perform well. They will also need to have a good relationship with parents/carers who bring their child or young person to the lab.

They will also have a key relationship with the Lung Function Team and Senior Respiratory Clinical Scientist. The team is a small team; however, communication is important especially when the lab is busy. They will also need to report back to the Senior Respiratory Clinical Scientist any issues or concerns they may have

The Lung Function Lab sits within the Respiratory Team at Alder Hey. A key relationship will be with clinicians (nurses, doctors and consultants) to relay results back and explain the importance of results.

Person Specification

GCSE's in English, Maths, Science and ICT (or equivalent)

Essential

• Certificates

Desirable

• ARTP Member or Working toward ARTP spirometry competency

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Alder Hey Children's NHS Trust

East Prescot Road

Liverpool

L14 5AB

Employer's website

https://alderhey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)