Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory & Sleep Assistant
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent: 0.64WTE 24hours/week
- Hours
- Part time - 24 hours per week (Monday AM only , Tuesday all day, Wednesday AM only and Thursday all day.)
- Job ref
- 214-MED-7325266
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newark Hospital
- Town
- Newark
- Salary
- £24,465 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Respiratory & Sleep Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 2
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly organised and caring individual to help assist the Sleep/Respiratory Physiological Science Team to deliver excellent clinical support to it's ever increasing number of patients. As part of this busy and dynamic team you will be required to work effectively and efficiently alone and alongside other colleagues.
The job will include providing basic sleep study testing, for which full training will be given, and assisting with effective efficient operation of clinics attended by patients undergoing Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy. Other duties include stock monitoring, cleaning of equipment, performing some basic observations and administration tasks.
Main duties of the job
To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in working with general public
- Customer/Patient Focussed Attitude
- Good Team Member
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working in healthcare setting
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Computer literate
- Good interpersonal skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience using hospital IT systems
- Basic Life Support/First Aid
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Maths and English (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- computer literacy qualification
Applicant requirements
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
- Emma Crookes
- Job title
- Respiratory & Sleep Science Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07769247780
- Additional information
Linda Johnson
[email protected] / 07386698820
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