About this role
Job summary
Are you an experienced Senior Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist or Healthcare Practitioner ready to take the next step in your career? If so, we would love to welcome you to our friendly and supportive team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality patient care while developing your leadership and specialist skills. The successful candidate will provide advanced clinical care (with appropriate supervision), contribute to service development, and actively engage in education, research, and clinical governance.
Our dedicated team of Healthcare Scientists, Physiologists, Practitioners, Assistants, and Trainees delivers a wide range of routine and complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures across both Respiratory and Sleep Physiology. We also run Physiologist/Scientist-led CPAP and Sleep Clinics, offering excellent opportunities to expand your clinical expertise.
If you are passionate about delivering outstanding care and developing your career within a forward-thinking and supportive service, we would love to hear from you.
Apply today and be part of a team making a real difference.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking to recruit a HCPC-registered individual (or working towards registration) with significant experience at STP level or equivalent, on a part-time basis (0.25 WTE).
The role involves undertaking and reporting on highly specialisedrespiratory and sleep investigations, including interpretation of results and providing expert advice to support diagnosis and treatment. You will also contribute to monitoring patients during and following treatment, including within Healthcare Scientist-led clinics, ensuring a high standard of patient care.
You will be responsible for the safe use of complex, high-value equipment, contributing to protocols, calibration, quality control, and the training of colleagues and trainees.
Our service currently supports approximately 7,000 home CPAP and over 200 home NIV patients. As part of a flexible and collaborative team, you will be competent in both routine and advanced respiratory and sleep investigations, with the ability to independently interpret and report findings.
You will maintain an up-to-date training record and actively contribute to CPD, as well as mentor and supervise junior staff. Experience in training, competency assessment, and supporting workforce development is highly desirable.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description Job responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Person Specification
Knowledge Essential
Relevant theroretical/practical/technical knowledge to underpin the investigative procedures within the department
Qualifications Essential
RCCP registered as Clinical Physiologist BSC in Clinical Physiology or equivalent Computer literacy skills ILS certificate Member of relevant Professional Bodies
Desirable
European Computer Driving Licence (EDCL) Teaching Certificate (C&G7307/ABC)
Experience Essential
Highly experienced in performing and reporting highly specialised complex investigations Leadership and Communication Skills
Desirable
Managerial Training/Experience
Contractual Requirements Essential
37 hours per week Annual attendance at Trust Fire Lectur Annual update on Manual Handling
Further Training Essential
Participates in Continued Professional Development
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton In Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)