Senior Physiologist

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

The respiratory physiology service has an opportunity to appoint a motivated, enthusiastic individual to the role of Senior Clinical Physiologist. This is a hybrid role, working between the Trust-based lung function labs and the integrated care service, providing support to the community respiratory clinics. You will join a busy, friendly, multidisciplinary team including physiologists, clinical scientists, administrators and consultants.

In lung function, the post-holder will be responsible for performing a range of standard and complex lung function tests. As part of the cross-site rota, there will be the opportunity to work in the Sleep Centre at Charing Cross Hospital to develop, or maintain skills in respiratory polygraphy analysis and CPAP compliance clinics. We also host PTP and STP students, so there is the opportunity to be involved in teaching.

In the integrated care role, you will support the community teams with ARTP accreditation and portfolios. The postholder will be required to proactively contribute to the wider development of the service, coordinating delivery of the community spirometry clinics and developing the diagnostic hubs.

It is essential for the successful applicant to have had previous experience in lung function testing, with a good science background with a BSc in Healthcare Science (respiratory major) or equivalent. It would be desirable if you have obtained the ARTP practitioners examination and are working towards AHCS equivalence.

Main duties of the job

• The Physiologist will provide diagnostic lung function tests, domiciliary oxygen assessment and occasionally support home NIV.
• To facilitate and assist the provision of high quality respiratory care to all adult respiratory patients alongside the consultants and nurses in respiratory medicine in a variety of settings to promote respiratory health within ICHT and the surrounding community service including the community diagnostic hubs.
• There will be an educational component to provide teaching and advice to the multi-disciplinary team and wider primary care and community providers.
• The work of the post holder must be reliable, accurate and to a high professional standard. The information obtained is used to assign the diagnosis of disease and to identify treatment regimes.
• The post holder is also responsible for the maintenance and calibration of all equipment including therapeutic/diagnostic equipment issued for use in the patients' home and community settings.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

EDUCATION

Essential criteria

• Appropriate degree/equivalent
• Progress to state/RCCP registration
• CPD by attendance at internal and external lectures, seminars and course.

Desirable criteria

• Registered with ARTP/RCCP

SKILLS/ABILITIES

Essential criteria

• Trained and competent at a range of complex diagnostic tests.
• Analysis, interpretation and comparison of range of diagnostic options in order to produce accurate diagnostic results.
• Ability to give instruction with authority.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in domiciliary oxygen prescribing
• Previous experience of capillary +/- arterial blood gas sampling

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in diagnostic testing

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

• Job description (PDF, 704.5KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 288.7KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)