Highly Specialised Respiratory and Sleep Clinical Scientist
37.5 hours per week (4 day week: Monday - Friday)
Permanent
Closing Date: 21st March 2025
Interview Date: TBC
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
Main duties of the job
* The successful post holder will be expected to be an independent autonomous clinical scientist.
* They will be expected to demonstrate an advanced level of experience across respiratory and sleep science and undertake advanced clinical physiology investigations.
* They are expected to provide leadership, training and education across clinical areas of sleep and respiratory services, enabling staff to develop the clinical skills and competencies required to deliver a high-quality service responsive to changing needs.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever-evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job responsibilities
* Demonstrate specialist skills, knowledge and expertise in clinical practice in Respiratory and Sleep Sciences e.g., CPET, Oxygen Therapy and Pulmonary Function Testing.
* Analyse, interpret and report on the results of a range of investigations.
* To be proficient at performing respiratory and sleep physiology tests independently to departmental standards.
* Attend and participate in local and national meetings related to Respiratory and Sleep Sciences.
* Identify the diagnostic and therapeutic requirements of specialist clinical departments and clinical colleagues, which may require attending multidisciplinary team meetings.
* To interpret complex data to ascertain and identify any pathological or incidental findings observable. Consider and report diagnoses as appropriate.
* To communicate test results, technical information, and exchange specialist information with colleagues from your own and other disciplines.
* Assist in the day-to-day running of the department.
* Support the Clinical Service Manager in achieving long-term objectives of the department and its strategic direction including devising and revising COPs and guidelines as needed.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualification and Professional Training
* BSc in Clinical Physiology Respiratory or equivalent
* Master level degree or equivalent qualification in Healthcare Science
* ARTP Award (Part 1, Part 2, Associate or Practitioner examinations)
* HCPC registered
* Intermediate Life Support
* Mary Seacole NHS Leadership Award or equivalent
* DClinSci or PhD
Experience and Knowledge
* Minimum of 5 years' experience post qualification
* Experience in a formal leadership role within an NHS Hospital Trust
* Experience as an independent practitioner across the range of routine and specialised respiratory and sleep investigations
* Evidence of clinical research and audit
* Developing and implementing training packages
* Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
* Experience of Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation process
* Experience with governance, QA and/or complaint management
* Experience of planning and developing specialist services including contributing toward local and national policies
Skills and Abilities
* Self-disciplined and self-motivated
* Ability to manage and lead a team in emergency situations
* Ability to engage the team and develop changes in working practices including research and audit
* IT competency
* Excellent communication skills written and verbal
* Excellent analytical and influencing skills
* Able to prioritise workload as changes occur and to simultaneously focus on a particular task to meet set deadlines
* To be able to assist patients to dress and undress
* To be able to push, maneuver and assist patients to transfer from wheelchair to examining couch
* To be able to deal sensitively with anxious patients and relatives attending the department for tests and to answer patient complaints/queries.
* To be able to deal with occasional exposure to distressing circumstances
* To be able to deal with and advise on personal and professional staff issues.
* To be able to apply concentration in the interpretation and analysis of test data and results, together with a high level of concentration during patient test procedures.
* To be able to concentrate for prolonged periods when producing service reports, business cases and planning.
Personal Qualities
* Professional manner
* To demonstrate the ability to lead and organise a team of staff
* To be able to combine the demands of leading a team with the commitment to clinical input
* Ability to form positive working relationships
* To demonstrate the ability to facilitate changes in practice
* Flexible and reliable
* Good previous health record
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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