Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: none
- Hours
- Full time
- Other
- Job ref
- Respiratory Physiologist
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Woolos Hospital / Nevill Hall Hospital
- Town
- Newport
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Respiratory Physiologist
NHS AfC: Band 5
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job overview
ABUHB Respiratory Physiology Department is located at St Woolos and Nevill Hall Hospitals.
You would have the opportunity to help provide a high quality, appropriate and effective specialist respiratory test service performing a full range of lung function tests, Sleep Studies and CPAP set ups for outpatients: providing technical reports and interpretation where appropriate. This role would also provide you with the opportunity to rotate through each site.
This role would have the opportunity to increase to a band 6 in approximately two years if all the appropriate achievements are met.
Main duties of the job
- To help provide a high quality, appropriate and effective specialist respiratory test service performing a full range of lung function tests, Sleep Studies and CPAP set ups for outpatients; providing technical reports and interpretation where appropriate.
- To be responsible for the monitoring and performance of calibration and quality control procedures for all equipment.
- Undertake clinics in the out-patient setting.
- Monday – Friday working hours.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To independently undertake a range of routine and advanced diagnostic tests, procedures and provide specialist advice to clinicians accordingly.
· To interpret lung function test results and to explain their meaning clearly to clinicians / patients / carers.
· To perform with minimal supervision, investigations and appointments including the following:
➢ Spirometry and flow volume loops
➢ Reversibility studies
➢ Measurement of static lung volumes and capacities
➢ Gas transfer (diffusion) tests
➢ FeNO
➢ Home Sleep Studies
➢ CPAP set ups
• To assist in the daily operation of the lung function and sleep department, including ensuring that all clinic administration is carried out. This includes accurately recording all clinical information and results electronically on the Trust IT systems in a timely fashion, and ensuring that results are available to clinicians.
• To be aware of and work within national and local clinical standards and protocols.
Person specification
english
Essential criteria
- BSc in Clinical Physiology (or equivalent)
- Experience in the Respiratory outpatient setting
- Ability to work as an independent practitioner
Desirable criteria
- Specialist Respiratory courses
- Experience working as a qualified Respiratory physiologist
- Welsh language skills
English
Essential criteria
- Relevant Experience
Desirable criteria
- Respiratory Experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Keri Russell
- Job title
- Directorate Manager for Respiratory
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633238474
List jobs with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in Health Science Services or all sectors