University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
Southampton Children's Hospital (SCH) has an exciting opportunity for a motivated technician to join our paediatric respiratory sleep team. We are looking for a technician with relevant experience to join our friendly team as a band 3 to support our overnight sleep service. This role will be 2 weeks of 2 nights and 2 weeks of 3 nights worked across a 4 week roster period, according to the needs of the service. On occasion, day hours may be required to carry out mandatory training and professional development courses.
The respiratory sleep service facilitates inpatient studies on most nights of the week, admitting both elective patients who are referred for a sleep study or carrying out studies on acute inpatients. We are a friendly and supportive team comprised of two sleep technicians who run our overnight studies, three respiratory and sleep technicians, five sleep physiologists, two Long Term Ventilation nurse specialists with a dual role, and 1 lead physiologist.
Job responsibilities
What you'll do: You will carry out overnight sleep studies on elective admissions or acute inpatients. Following a period of orientation and training, you will support patients and their parents on the night of their study, set up and monitor their study overnight, and troubleshoot equipment when necessary to achieve high quality signals and data. You will download the data at the end of the study, ensure artefact removal, mark the periods of sleep, and upload data to patients' charts. You will flag any study that sits outside of given parameters once downloaded. You will also carry the on-call phone on some night shifts providing telephone support on home clinic days between the hours of 1900-0500 to assist families carrying out home studies. For most nights, this is a lone working role with support from ward staff.
What we're looking for: We are looking for someone who enjoys working night shifts in a patient-facing role, who has a high level of attention to detail. You must have: the ability to work nights flexibly across a 7-day period, the ability to communicate with a wide range of people in a variety of settings, the ability to work independently, assessing and intervening as necessary to ensure patient safety, the ability to work with respiratory equipment and troubleshoot problems, good organisation skills and time management skills.
Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification prior to application.
Person Specification
Qualifications / training required
* NVQ 3 in appropriate health care module or equivalent education and training or experience
* Child Protection and domestic violence awareness.
* Computer skills- data base and record keeping.
* Experienced and competent in additional clinical skills as per job description.
* Care and maintenance of sleep equipment.
* Knowledge and understanding of carrying out sleep studies.
Previous or relevant experience necessary
* Logical and consistent work and career pattern.
* Proven experience in an acute hospital environment.
* Proven experience in a caring role involving children.
* Experience carrying out sleep studies.
* Experience in care and maintenance of sleep equipment.
Aptitudes and skills required
* Ability to communicate with a wide range of people in a variety of settings.
* Ability to work as part of a Multidisciplinary team.
* Ability to work independently, assessing and intervening as necessary to ensure patient safety.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Able to use initiative, prioritise and deliver agreed objectives.
* Understanding of personal accountability with an awareness of personal/professional limitations.
* Ability to work with respiratory equipment and troubleshoot problems.
* Ability to demonstrate effective time management skills and honesty regarding lone working.
* Ability to adjust to pressures of the job and deal with stressful situations.
* Good organisation skills and effective time management.
* Willingness to undertake further training.
* Able to prioritise.
* Able to recognise stress in self/others.
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.
Lead clinical Respiratory sleep Physiologist
£24,071 to £25,674 a year Per Annum (PA) Pro Rata
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