At St George's Hospital, we are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge healthcare solutions and improving patient outcomes. As a leading healthcare provider, we pride ourselves on combining clinical expertise with advanced research to offer innovative treatments. We are currently seeking a dedicated and experienced Healthcare Scientist to join our multidisciplinary team.
The Healthcare Scientist will play a key role in our healthcare services, conducting diagnostic tests, clinical research, and providing support for medical investigations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in scientific research, analytical skills, and a passion for improving patient care.
· To work in paediatric services for lung function and sleep investigations.
· Undertakes a wide range of both simple and highly complex procedures in Sleep and lung function testing, Set-up, download and analyse inpatient and domiciliary respiratory sleep studies.
· Reporting from simple to complex assessments in Sleep and lung function testing To maintain, calibrate and disinfect the equipment according to Trust and departmental policy.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George's Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
The main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, St Georges Hospital provides a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across south west London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.
Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.
This advert closes on Monday 28 Oct 2024
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