Job Title: Sleep Physiologist
Agency: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Location: East Grinstead, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 32,073 – 39,043 £ / Year

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Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Sleep Physiologist to join our team and help us support our new Community Diagnostic Service, particularly focusing on the sleep pathway diagnostics and treatments.

Are you a recent graduate in respiratory physiology or hold a relevant healthcare degree? We are looking to recruit into a Band 5 Sleep Physiologist post.

For this role, you will need to work well as part of a team and be open to flexible working patterns, including night shifts.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with a multi-disciplinary team of physiologists, technicians, consultants and pharmacists as well as with an in-house administrative/booking team.

The post holder will carry out unsupervised overnight full and limited respiratory polysomnography on patients with a range of sleep disorders including sleep disordered breathing, REM and non-REM parasomnias, sleep movement disorders and secondary sleep disorders occurring in the context of various neurological and general medical diseases. Analyse the data and prepare detailed reports. Provide a range of additional physiological tests, analyse data and report findings. Liaise with consultants regarding diagnosis and treatment plans.

The post holder will establish patients on CPAP on overnight set-ups, titrating therapy as appropriate based on the results of physiological measurements and patient feedback. Therefore, the post holder will be required to work shifts including night duties.

Additional duties include maintaining stock and equipment levels, providing technical advice and follow-up service for patients either face to face or by telephone, maintaining accurate patient notes and databases at all times and participating in departmental research/ audit.

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