Skip to main content
Please wait, loading

Job summary

Main area
Acute Medicine
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
193-6215860UCGB6-SRP
Employer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Reading
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 pre annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Respiratory Physiologist

Band 6

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements.  The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.  This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust.  Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us.  We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.  

 

 

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the respiratory physiology team here at Royal Berkshire as a Senior Physiologist.  

Please note although this post is being advertised as a permanent full time position, the option of part time and/or fixed term is available to the right candidate. 

Main duties of the job

To train departmental staff to perform the basic respiratory physiological measurements in accordance with ARTP/BTS National Guidelines and local standards.

To mentor and assist in the development and training of physiology staff members.

The instruction of student nurses and doctors, trainee physiotherapists and pharmacists, junior doctors, staff nurses, GPs and practice nurses in various aspects of physiology.

Working for our organisation

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton.  With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.


The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.


We are one of the largest hospital foundation trusts in the country, and currently touch the lives of half a million patients in the west of Berkshire every year by providing high quality acute medical and surgical services for our local communities.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To supervise the physiology team in the daily running of the service involving:

Perform diagnostic tests to nationally recognised standards for accuracy and quality.

To carry out the following investigations:

  • Spirometry (measurement of dynamic flows and volumes)
  • Measurement of static lung volumes by helium dilution technique, nitrogen wash-out and body plethysmography.
  • Gas transfer for Carbon Monoxide by single breath technique
  • Bronchodilator Response Testing
  • Field exercise tests (6 minute walk test; shuttle test; 6 minute step exercise test).
  • Ambulatory oxygen assessment (when required).
  • Measurement of respiratory muscle strength (MIP/MEP; SNIP tests; postural Spirometry, peak cough flow).
  • To perform hypoxic inhalation tests (fitness to fly).
  • To perform histamine challenge tests.
  • To perform earlobe blood gas sampling and analysis.
  • To perform fraction exhaled Nitric Oxide testing (FeNO)
  • To perform a range of diagnostic tests in patients who have suspected sleep related breathing disorders.
  • To perform CPAP Trial set ups for patients with diagnosed sleep disordered breathing
  • To perform the review of CPAP therapy for patients with diagnosed sleep disordered breathing who are on CPAP treatment.
  • To perform the initiation and review of therapy for patients receiving NIV treatment.
  • To provide the mobile respiratory physiology service at the trust spoke sites.
  • To provide Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET). This includes investigation of exertional dypsnoea and pre-operative assessment.
  • To provide Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction (EIB) challenge tests for the investigation of exercise induced asthma.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • Scientific knowledge acquired through formal training to Clinical Physiology BSc or equivalent level.
  • Recognised ARTP Qualification in physiological measurement.
Desirable criteria
  • RCCP registration or working towards equivalent pathway.
  • Evidence of attending ‘Train the trainer’ course

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 2 years experience as a Clinical Respiratory Physiologist.
  • Experience of supervising junior physiology staff and students
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of non-routine tests such as flight assessment and airway challenge.
  • Experience of remote monitoring of home CPAP patients

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Care quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Stonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.National Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024

Applicant requirements

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

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mark Unstead
Job title
Lead Respiratory Physiologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01183225111
Apply online nowAlert me to similar vacancies