The Respiratory Function department is looking to recruit a committed individual to join an expanding and friendly team as a Band 5 Respiratory Physiologist. If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work, and wish to be part of our team striving to make a difference, then we want to hear from you.
As a Band 5 Respiratory Physiologist, you will collaborate with the existing team to develop the necessary skills and competencies for progression to a band 6.
The role will require flexible working across Warwick Hospital and a Community Diagnostic Hub currently being built at Stratford Upon Avon Hospital.
Services currently offered include:
1. Spirometry
2. Lung volumes
3. Gas transfer
4. Plethysmography and reversibility testing
5. Mannitol challenge testing
6. Hypoxic challenge testing
7. Muscle studies
8. CPET
9. Overnight SpO2
10. Multi-channel sleep study issue & reporting
We are looking for a qualified Clinical Respiratory Physiologist with relevant experience at that level and have their ARTP qualification either part I and Part II or Practitioners qualification. However, it would also be a great opportunity for someone who has recently qualified.
A Respiratory Physiologist is required to work within a small team to perform, assess, and report on a wide range of respiratory procedures, working autonomously within local and national guidelines whilst adhering to best professional practice.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC, and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended places to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond, ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa, and Shipston-on-Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways, and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence: We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective, and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient-facing or not; we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Richard Komarasinha
Job title: Respiratory Function Unit Manager
Email address: richard.komarasinha@swft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01926495321
Ext 4333/4986
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