Senior Respiratory and Sleep Healthcare Scientist/Physiologist

Job summary

Main duties of the job

The post holder in this role will primarily work in the Sleep Laboratory, but where required, across all departments to provide high quality, patient focused and efficient Sleep Science, Respiratory Physiology, and CPAP services within Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust.

The key duties of the role revolve around providing and developing the services:

Perform, lead, analyse and interpret basic and advanced sleep assessments including full polysomnography, actigraphy and pulmonary function tests.

Initiate CPAP therapy and troubleshoot patient problems

Critically appraise, monitor and review current services to ensure policies and procedures are complete, up-to-date and evidence-based.

Identify areas for improvement or development and produce evidence-based proposals.

Promote and facilitate links between the 3 departments to improve patient pathway, efficiency and communication.

Take an active role in education within the departments including healthcare scientist and/or other professional discipline training and assessment.

Take an active role in research and audit from concept to presentation and outcome with a supporting role in other department research.

Job responsibilities

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview