Paediatric Sleep Physiologist

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated science graduate to work as a member of the paediatric sleep physiology team at West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH), based primairly at Imperial College Healthcare Trust (ICHT).

The Paediatric Sleep and Respiratory Physiology team is part of wider multi-disciplinary department consisting of clinical scientists, physiologists, clincal nurse specialists, respiratory physicians, and administrative staff. We provide sleep diagnostics for respiratory and non-respiratory sleep disorders via cardiorespiratory, polysomnography, MSLT (Multiple Sleep Latency Test), and actigraphy sleep studies.

We are a rapidly expanding team that actively encourages career growth and continuing education. We are aligned with Imperial College London to conduct translational sleep and respiratory physiology research and encourage active engagement in research projects.

Further to this, there is opportunity to develop skills in lung function testing and to work with Imperial College London to produced translational research in the field as part of the wider research team.

Main duties of the job

• Interact closely with medical, scientific, nursing, and other staff to provide a high-qualitySleep Service dedicated to patient care.
• Competently perform high quality, accurate near patient diagnostic sleep studiesincluding those on invasive and non-invasive ventilation.
• Under supervision of senior staff, analyse and report paediatric cardiorespiratory sleep studies, including those on invasive / non-invasive ventilation.
• Assist with initiation of non-invasive ventilation for patients. Including mask fitting, patient/carer education, and device set-up.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.