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Job summary

Main area
Respiratory & Sleep
Grade
NHS AFC: Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (08:30 until 16:30, Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays)
Job ref
361-7195367
Employer
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lister Hospital
Town
Stevenage
Salary
£26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust logo

Associate Practitioner - Respiratory & Sleep

NHS AFC: Band 4

Here at  East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

 

Job overview

We are recruiting for an Associate Practitioner in the Digswell Sleep & Chest Unit who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. 

An Associate Practitioner plays a pivotal role in our sleep diagnostic and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure service maintaining the highest standards of care for our patients undergoing sleep assessment and receiving treatment.

The ideal candidate must be enthusiastic, self-motivated and excellent at communicating with patients at different levels. Computer literacy is a requirement, as your duties will include managing diagnostic and therapy devices and data input.

They will also be working with an experienced team keen to offer you support, help and guidance at any time.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the smooth and effective running of the sleep diagnostic and CPAP services by coordinating with both senior and junior staff members as part of a multidisciplinary team. This will include supporting patients as part of their diagnostic assessment, their treatment initiation and follow-up, both face to face and over phone call.

You will perform clinical observations, set patients up with domiciliary sleep studies and CPAP treatment, download and interpret clinical treatment data and complete data input.

Your responsibilities include ensuring sleep diagnostic and therapy equipment is prepared and in good working order, junior staff training and support and liaising with other departments, such as EBME and Supplies for stock provision.

You will be responsible for ensuring equipment cleaning and preparation follows internal protocol and the Trust’s infection control standards.

You will take part in the weekly multidisciplinary team meeting and contribute towards ongoing research, education and development activity.

08:30h to 16:30h, Monday to Friday. Most clinical activity will be conducted at Lister Hospital but the staff member will be expected to work cross site at Hertford County Hospital and QE2 in Welwyn.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

 We run the following hospitals:

  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.  We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision.  If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.  Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role. 

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria
  • Appropriate NVQ 3/diploma or equivalent
  • Good computer literacy skills
Desirable criteria
  • ARTP basic sleep course

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience with obtaining basic patient observations
  • Experience within an acute or outpatient healthcare setting
Desirable criteria
  • Practical experience of working in a sleep and /or respiratory service
  • Previous relevant experience of working in the NHS

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Willingness to undertake cross training to extend skill set to deliver role
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Demonstrable interpersonal skills - can work as part of a team or independently
  • Ability to supervise less experienced staff, including supporting the training of staff
  • Ability to organise and allocate work to less experience staff to meet needs of the service
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • High degree of computer literacy
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to work with healthcare databases and data input

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable knowledge of a range of routine and non-routine healthcare science duties
  • Basic knowledge of role requirements
  • Basic knowledge of common sleep pathologies
  • Basic knowledge of common therapy options for sleep related breathing disorders
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Trust IT systems
  • Extensive knowledge of sleep diagnostics and treatment
  • Knowledge/performance of clinical audit and research

Other requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to be flexible and respond to the needs of the service
  • Ability to work with a multidisciplinary team towards wider service delivery
  • Experience of training and supporting junior staff members

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Priya Nair
Job title
Chief Respiratory & Sleep Physiologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01438284898
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