Employer: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Town: Steeton
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Dependant on experience
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/02/2025 23:59
Specialist Respiratory Physiologist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Be part of our future landscape. At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
These are exciting times for Airedale. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come.
Job Overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic specialist respiratory physiologist to join our forward-thinking team. Despite our small size, we offer a variety of tests and are looking to develop our respiratory services by expanding our sleep service and introducing cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the near future. The department supports continuing professional development with opportunities and support for your future learning from postgraduate courses to modality-specific conferences and workshops.
Main Duties of the Job
For full details of the duties for this role, please see attached full job description and person specification.
Working for Our Organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
* Cycle to Work
* Travel Scheme
* Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
* Onsite Nursery
* Buying and Selling Annual Leave
* Car Leasing
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee Health and Wellbeing
* Extensive Reward Scheme
* Counselling Service
* Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
* Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our Values: We take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are:
* Committed to Quality of Care
* Compassion
* Working together for patients
* Improving Lives
* Everyone Counts
* Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply? Please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached job description and personal specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc (Hons.) in Healthcare Science (Respiratory Physiology) or B’TEC HNC MPPM
* Registered with the Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS / RCCP) or HCPC
* Achieved or working towards achieving ARTP parts 1 and 2 or ARTP practitioner level III
Experience
* Consolidated respiratory training and up to date with current trends in respiratory physiology testing techniques.
* Experience of more complex investigations including bronchial challenge testing and sleep studies.
* Experience of a range of respiratory function and diagnostic sleep equipment.
* Experience of working single-handed or in a small team.
* Displays care, compassion, sensitivity and responsiveness to other peoples’ feelings and needs.
* Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload and prioritising accordingly.
Knowledge
* Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of respiratory procedures and techniques.
* Knowledge of clinical conditions which may be encountered in area of work.
* Awareness of current thinking/issues within the NHS, healthcare science and respiratory physiology.
* Demonstrates understanding of accountability.
* Knowledge and understanding of the importance of reflective practice and continuing professional development.
* Knowledge of Solus Cardio-Respiratory patient management system.
Skills
* Competent IT skills – knowledge of Microsoft Office, Outlook etc.
* Effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including communicating factual information to patients / carers.
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost from your first full month's salary. This is a condition of your employment.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020.
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