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Job summary

Main area
Respiratory
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent: current post holder resigned
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8 to 4 or 9 to 5)
Job ref
197-AO5704C
Employer
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Eltham Community Hospital
Town
Eltham
Salary
拢37,338 - 拢44,962 per annum plus HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/12/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust logo

Respiratory Physiologist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley.听We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary鈥檚 Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 鈥 the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable听over听staying comfortable; Listening听overalways knowing best; and Succeeding together听overachieving alone.听

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as 鈥済ood鈥 or 鈥渙utstanding鈥 in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King鈥檚 College London鈥檚 GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

The Respiratory Laboratory Department, based in the QEH Medicine Directorate at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, provides a clinical service on three听major Hospital sites 鈥 QEH, Queen Mary鈥檚 Hospital Sidcup CDC, and Eltham Community Hospital CDC, the service is also establishing a
community based service.

You would have the opportunity to help provide a high quality, appropriate and effective specialist respiratory test service performing a full range of lung function tests, Sleep Studies and CPAP set ups for outpatients: providing technical reports and interpretation where appropriate.听 听To be responsible for the efficient organisation of the department at all times in conjunction with and in the absence of the Band 7 Physiologist.听This role would also provide you with the opportunity to rotate through each site. through each of the sites

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

An opportunity has arisen to join our Respiratory Physiology department. We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic respiratory physiologist to
join our busy, and evolving service.

Our trust currently has two physiologists based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. We are also in the process of recruiting a team of ARTP trained
HCA's that perform basic respiratory tests in for our community based diagnostic services, and are working towards developing a band 4 junior
physiologist post within our team.


We are looking for a highly motivated individual who wants to excel professionally and is committed to providing a high-quality service. You must听have the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
This exciting new post will be based predominantly in our new Eltham community diagnostics hub, although there will also be the opportunity for
regular cross-site working. The successful candidate will be required to work autonomously and be responsible for the day-to-day running of a
lung function and sleep laboratory within the diagnostic hub.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:听

  1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development听
  2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability听
  3. Improving the experience of staff with disability听
  4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development听
  5. Making equalities mainstream听

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dedicated and multidisciplinary team to develop services. Successful candidates will need to have
the ability to work in and lead a multidisciplinary team, and understand the principles of and take an active role in clinical governance. The post
holder would need to have experience of teaching clinical skills to trainees of all levels, and provide evidence of participation in audit and quality
improvement projects.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • BSc Clinical Physiology / Science or equivalent Masters or equivalent experience
  • Eligible for entry onto RCCP register
Desirable criteria
  • Registered on the RCCP voluntary register.
  • ARTP part 1 and part 2 assessments or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant recent experience as a qualified respiratory physiologist
  • Evidence of continued relevant postgraduate professional development
  • Experience of teaching

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of specialist respiratory investigations and therapeutic interventions
  • Ability to independently and accurately perform and report on full lung function tests; understanding the rationale behind the choice of test and the contra-indications to each test
  • Ability to interpret lung function tests and to explain their meaning clearly to non-respiratory members of staff to patients / carers
  • Knowledge of the working principles of the equipment in use together with its calibration, maintenance, cleaning, simple repairs and quality control.
  • Investigations and therapeutic interventions used to treat these conditions

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.NHS Rainbow badgePrince's Trust - Proud to support the Prince's trust - Youth can do it

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Steve Sims
Job title
Senior Respiratory Physiologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 836 5257
Additional information

For further details / informal visits contact:
Contact name
Steve Sims
Contact job title
Lead Physiologist
Contact email address
[email protected]
Contact telephone number
0208 836 5257