Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
About
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate, and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities, and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Key details
Location
Site: Fairfield General Hospital
Address: Rochdale Old Road
Town: Bury
Postcode: BL9 7TD
Major / Minor Region: Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (flexible working to cover respiratory and sleep services)
* Full time
* Part time
Salary
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: Band 5
Specialty
Main area: Respiratory Physiology
Job overview
We are recruiting a band 5 Respiratory/Sleep physiologist to support the respiratory team in the community diagnostic centre and at Fairfield and Oldham hospitals. Cardiorespiratory Investigations is a forward-looking department made up of a multidisciplinary team. We are committed to delivering the best possible care to our patients. As a Specialist Practitioner in respiratory, the successful candidate will be competent in performing Advanced Respiratory investigations, supporting sleep investigations, and Bronchoscopy and Thoracoscopy service.
The department provides a broad range of respiratory physiological measurements including full PFT’s, allergy testing, exercise tests, Cardio-pulmonary exercise test, hypoxic challenge, and ear lobe blood gas.
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You will be competent in Advanced lung function. Further training can be offered to support the sleep, bronchoscopy, and thoracoscopy investigations. The ability to work flexible hours during the week will be beneficial. The grade offered will be dependent on the learning requirements.
You will provide teaching and training for medical and physiology staff in respiratory Investigations.
You will be expected to liaise with patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals (across primary and secondary care) to provide and improve respiratory services.
Continuous professional development is encouraged and you will have opportunities to develop further your skills and knowledge. This will include support to attend relevant professional courses and opportunities to gain additional experience and build on new skills.
In addition to appropriate experience, the successful candidate must possess a Clinical Physiology degree or equivalent qualification (see person spec.) and be registered with RCCP (or be working towards registration).
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair. We respect the value of difference. Our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* BSc in relevant science
Desirable criteria
* Masters in relevant science degrees
* ARTP
Skills
Essential criteria
* Worked in Respiratory Physiology
Desirable criteria
* Independently perform Advanced lung function
* Experience of sleep diagnostics
* Experience of exercise field tests
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Levina Sanderson
Job title: Senior Directorate Support Manager
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0161 778 2910
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