Job summary
- Main area
- Sleep Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 344-1968QEH
- Employer
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kent and Canterbury Hospital
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Sleep Practitioner
Band 7
Job overview
You will be joining a busy sleep physiology service based across 5 sites in Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Margate. We are a friendly welcoming team who enjoy working together and supporting each other. We have links with a number of local universities, including Canterbury Christ Church University and Kent and Medway Medical School. The sleep physiology team are passionate about supporting staff development identified via regular supportive one to ones and the appraisal process.
Main duties of the job
You will work as an effective team member by taking responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the day to day care provided to patients, whether this be diagnostic or therapeutic.
The day to day aspects of the role requires that you will be able to prioritise your own workload, work independently supervise the work of others and utilise highly developed interpersonal skills to work effectively across professional and organisational boundaries.
Working autonomously as an advanced practitioner within the sleep physiology service you will be responsible for providing good quality diagnostic respiratory sleep studies, analysis and reporting, following
local, national and international guidance. You will be responsible for leading the sleep physiology service team with this.
At times you will partake in the service’s “one stop” sleep clinics, undertaking initial consultations where you would undertake comprehensive assessments of patients referred to the service, including for medical, functional, social and mental status. Facts and findings from assessment tools may be complex or confusing and sound skills of analysis and interpretation are required in order to make appropriate judgments. You will develop individualised patient-centred care plans and coordinate their implementation. You will ensure that care and support provided is evidence based. You will be highly competent to an advanced level in the use of APAP.
Working for our organisation
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
There will be the opportunity to review complex sleep disordered breathing patients. There will be a requirement to answer patient queries around issues with APAP, using a variety of communication methods.
You will produce clear reports using proformas and write letters to General Practitioners (GPs) as appropriate, alongside documenting of clear information on other information technology (IT) platforms as appropriate.
You will provide highly specialist advice, teaching and training to a wide variety of staff, including junior sleep physiologists within the team, in particular those undertaking ARTP qualifications or an apprenticeship in Healthcare Science, or STP respiratory and sleep or cardiology or neurophysiology students, and other health care professionals within and outside of the multi-disciplinary team.
You will be a line manager to the current band 6, 5 and 4 sleep physiology team members. As the team develops this will be reviewed.
You will support the review, development and implementation of standard operating procedures and guidelines within the service in accordance with current research, and local and national guidelines.
As a senior member of the team you will support the Lead Sleep Physiologist and Nurse Clinical Lead for Sleep in the operational and clinical management of the sleep diagnostic and treatment services across the east Kent area, including working proactively to reduce waiting times for sleep studies, analysis and reporting, and initial clinic consultations for our “one stop” sleep clinics.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree level education relevant to post i.e. clinically appropriate BSc • Continuing evidence of CPD • Willingness to undertake further appropriate qualifications if do not have i.e. Post Graduate Diploma in Sleep Medicine
Desirable criteria
- • Masters level study • Registered respiratory / sleep physiologist / scientist with the RCCP or AHCS • Relevant sleep physiology qualifications • Formal teaching and mentorship qualification • Certificated leadership programme
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Work within a sleep breathing disorders service or a relevant associated field • Undertake respiratory polygraphy analysis and reporting • Formal / informal teaching to a range of healthcare practitioners, patients, carers and their families • Independently undertaking sleep outpatient clinics, specifically in the assessment, review and management of follow-up patients using APAP • Work within a multidisciplinary team • Work within known policies and national / international guidelines (AASM, ARTP, BSS, BTS, ERS/ATS, NICE etc), making appropriate judgements within the multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- • Independently undertaking sleep outpatient clinics, specifically in the assessment, review and management of new patients
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jenny Viggars
- Job title
- Lead Sleep Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected].
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