Job overview

The Senior Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist works under the general supervision of the Lead Physiologist for the Wye Valley Respiratory and Sleep service to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of a wide range of respiratory, sleep and ventilation disorders including outpatient respiratory and sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care and direct patient education .

The person should have specialist experience in basic sleep technology / advanced respiratory testing. To perform as an independent practitioner using clinical experience to manage patient care in a medical clinical environment. 

Main duties of the job

• To perform, analyse, and interpret reports on basic and advanced sleep studies.
• To perform advanced respiratory physiology tests.
• Implement and audit the quality control of scoring within the department (inter scorer reliability programme).
• Providing day-to-day leadership for the sleep / respiratory teams and coordinating activities.
• Reviewing existing procedures and developing new protocols for additional services in line with expansion of the Service.
• To assist the Chief Physiologist with the development of PSG / MSLT and MWT service development and delivery of service.

• Develop the expanding CPET service, working with Pre op assessment and Surgeons form other centres.

• Supervision, teaching and training of trainee physiologists, nurses and medical students.
• Liaise with the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure patients’ treatment is appropriately managed.
• Taking an active role in research and audit.
• Take an active role in the departmental budget and have good understanding of funding and expenditure.
• Providing rapid access investigation for in-patients.
• Mange the acute and chronically unwell patient with regards to ventilatory needs.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.