Job summary
- Main area
- Cardio-Respiratory
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 409-7250150
- Employer
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whiston Hospital
- Town
- Prescot
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/07/2025
Employer heading
Highly Specialised Physiologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
A vacant full-time position, for a Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist has arisen in Mersey West Lancs Hospital Trust.
We are committed to meeting the needs of modern healthcare and providing the best possible services to our patients; as a result we have an exciting opportunity, which represents great career opportunities for the right person.
The successful candidate will be an RCCP registered Physiologist, with a post grad qualification in a specialised area, with sufficient number of years’ post qualification experience.
It is important that the candidate can demonstrate flexibility, good communication skills, and the ability to work as a team member.
The candidate will work alongside fellow Consultants, nurses and other Healthcare professionals to ensure high standards are maintained across the organization.
This post is based in Whiston Hospital and requires that you work flexibly across all MWL sites.
We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 350,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man. We are also a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.
Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.
Main duties of the job
- To assist with the provision of Cardio-Respiratory services throughout the Trust and partnership agencies and to ensure the delivery of a high standard of service for both routine and emergency work.
- The post holder will have a broad range of skills across the entire service but provide highly specialised supervision of a particular area within that service.
- Service lead physiologists will be expected to continually consolidate and expand their skills by formal and informal means, constantly updating their knowledge in line with local and national policy.
- A commitment to participation in the relevant societies and local and national groups and committees is essential.
- The Cardio-Respiratory Department provides a high-quality service for basic and advanced cardiac and respiratory diagnostic investigations. A 24/7 service is provided for basic investigations such as ECG and spirometry which is provided by Senior ATO’s and Assistant Practitioners.
- You will be aware of the full range of procedures provided by the department.
- You will undertake a wide range of work activities.
You will be expected to:
- Adhere strictly to all Department and Trust policies.
- Deputise for the department manager when necessary.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- Provides fully comprehensive, unsupervised reports of a highly professional standard in a range of procedures.
- Uses clinical judgements to act on reports in an unsupervised way.
- Has highly specialised knowledge and skill in at least one specialist area and is responsible for the development and delivery of that service.
- Clinical supervision of testing in this area
- Developing and implementing relevant policies and procedures.
- Producing costs for each procedure.
- Implementing staff training programs for all levels of staff.
- Peer evaluation of competency levels.
- Stock control and consumable costs in this area.
- Maintain optimal functioning and regular servicing of equipment.
- Initiation of research and audit programs in order to review services and to monitor capacity. ·
- Provide regular updates to manager on service progress and re-design.
- A commitment to setting up new services and expanding the Physiologist role into areas traditionally covered by doctors.
- Deputise for other service leads in their absence.
- Participate in out of hours sessions when required.
- May be called upon to participate in a 24hr on call emergency rota covering a range of invasive and non-invasive tests.
- During out of hours or on call sessions, together with clinical responsibilities, the Physiologist will take on a level of managerial control of departmental issues.
- Take on a level of managerial control as designated by the manager
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Deliver clinical skills and knowledge unsupervised across a wide range of basic and specialised clinical procedures.
- Be proficient in a in a range of invasive and non-invasive cardiac procedures.
- Provide high quality care for patients.
- Required to deliver complex information and instruction in a sensitive manner considering the diverse needs of all patients regardless of their age and abilities.
- Required on a regular basis to communicate information concerning patients and their test results, giving advice and recommendations to a wide range of staff groups.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- To ensure the accuracy of data quality in line with departmental policies and procedures are all current and correct.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
- Designs and implements training and education programmes in own specialist area.
- Assists with the delivery of education programs in a broad range of subjects to a variety of staff throughout the Trust
- Actively participates in the mentorship arrangement and takes an active interest in liaising with Higher Education Institutes providing teaching and placements when required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Clinical Physiology or equivalent qualification / experience.
- RCCP Registration
- ILS Qualification
- MSCST/master’s level qualification / equivalent qualification / experience within a specialised field (BSE / NASPE / BPEG / ARTP)
Desirable criteria
- IT Qualification
- ALS Qualification
- Managerial Qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Sufficient number of years post qualification
- Experience in a broad range of respiratory test
- Specialist knowledge in a range of respiratory test
- Supervision of staff
- Participate in on call / out of hours service
Desirable criteria
- Educational / Mentorship Experience
- Managerial Experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in addition to working independently
- Ability to work in a pressurised environment using highly technical equipment in a safe manner producing complex unsupervised reports
- Ability to work with patients and provide high quality care, imparting information, instruction and results in a sensitive manner.
- Excellent organisational skills Other
Other
Essential criteria
- Committed to continual professional development
- Flexible and adaptable approach
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Duffin
- Job title
- Operation Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 430 1428
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