Job overview

Join our dynamic Respiratory Physiology and Sleep Service as an Advanced Specialist Physiologist (Band 8a) and take the next step in your leadership career.

This is an exciting opportunity to act as Deputy Lead for a forward-thinking team, playing a key role in shaping and delivering a high-quality, patient-centred service. You will support the day-to-day operational management of the department, driving performance, innovation, and excellence in care.

You will use your advanced clinical expertise to independently perform, interpret, and report on a wide range of basic and complex respiratory and sleep investigations, directly influencing patient diagnosis and treatment.

Working closely with the Head of Respiratory Physiology, you will help ensure the smooth running of the service while meeting key targets and maintaining outstanding clinical standards.

You will also lead and inspire junior staff through effective line management, including recruitment, development, and performance support, helping to build a skilled and motivated team.

This role is ideal for an ambitious and experienced physiologist ready to take on a senior leadership position, with the opportunity to make a real impact on service development and patient care.

Main duties of the job

Provide basic and complex lung function investigations. Provide expert knowledge in a highly specialist clinical area and personally carry out a broad range of respiratory clinical physiology procedures

Produce technically satisfactory results in accordance with local health and safety policy that will be used in the patient’s subsequent management.

This includes:-  Full competence in the following tests:

Lung Function Tests: Spirometry, Body plethysmography; Capillary Blood Gases; 6 min walk; bronchial provocation studies, FeNO, exercise induced asthma study, pulse oximetry

Sleep polysomongraphy (including reporting) as in-pt and home; provision of CPAP (currently stands at over 120 pts); respiratory muscle weakness assessment, fit to fly assessment

Managing CPAP clinic and follow-up.

Working for our organisation

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff.  This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan.  All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.