About this role
Job summary
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for the detailed job description of the role
Main duties of the job
We are delighted to be able to offer the opportunity for someone to join the paediatric respiratory sleep team at Southampton Children's Hospital.
If you thrive in fast paced, focused night time environments and enjoy supporting children and families, this role brings together technical skill and patient care. Working nights only, you'll play an integral part in delivering high quality overnight respiratory sleep studies for elective admissions and acute inpatients.
About us
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHS we're committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
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Job description Job responsibilities
Youll support patients and their parents throughout their stay, set up and monitor studies overnight, and troubleshoot equipment to ensure clear and reliable signals. At the end of each study, youll download and prepare the data, remove artefact, mark sleep periods and upload results to patient charts. Any study falling outside expected parameters will be flagged for review.
Some nights youll also carry the on call phone, offering telephone support to families completing home studies between 19:0005:00. Most shifts involve lone working, with ward staff available for support.
What were looking for:Someone who enjoys night work, values accuracy, and feels confident in a patient facing role. You must have: the ability to work nights flexibly across a 7 day period the ability to communicate with a wide range of people in varied settings the ability to work independently, assessing and intervening to ensure patient safety the ability to work with respiratory equipment and troubleshoot issues strong organisation and time management skills
We have 1 post available averaging 18 hours a week worked as 2 x 1 night weeks and 2 x 2 night weeks. These nights will be worked across the 7 day period.Please ensure you have read the full job description and person specification before applying.
Responsibilities:
- To set up paediatric sleep studies on the ward.- To confidently greet patients, relatives and other members of hospital staff, either face to face or by telephone, with enthusiasm, patience and understanding, in a sympathetic and caring manner.- To take responsibility for patients admitted for sleep studies- To apply equipment to patients admitted for sleep studies- To monitor child during sleep studies- In coordination with the Sleep Physiologist is able to analyse reports, detect technical difficulties and highlight areas of concern to the appropriate consultant
Experience and skills:
- Ability to work nights shift across a 7 day period is essential, this post is on a 4 week rotation of 2 weeks of 1 night per week and 2 weeks of 2 nights per week.
- Ability to work independently, assessing and intervening to ensure patient safety.
- Ability to trouble shoot respiratory equipment and computer skills to be able to analyse and write sleep study reports.
Person Specification
Trust Values Essential
Patients First Always Improving Working Together
Qualifications / training required Essential
NVQ 3 in appropriate health care module or equivalent education and training or experience Computer skills- data base and record keeping Child Protection and domestic violence awareness Ability to safely move and handle patients and equipment Experienced and competent in additional clinical skills as per job description
Previous or relevant experience necessary Essential
Proven experience in a caring role involving children Experience carrying out sleep studies Experience in care and maintenance of sleep equipment Proven experience in an acute hospital environment
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.
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Employer details Employer name University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
Address CHI Resp Techs & Sleep Team
Southampton
SO16 6YD
Employer's website https://www.uhs.nhs.uk/home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)