Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible hours are applicable for this post)
- Job ref
- 193-7251706UCGB7-ASRP
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Advanced Sleep and Respiratory Physiologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
Advanced Sleep/Respiratory Physiologist
The respiratory physiology department at the Royal Berkshire NHS FT provide a range of routine and advanced diagnostic tests across multiple sites in berkshire.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced physiologist to join our team as an Advanced Sleep and Respiratory Physiologist.
This is a period of exciting expansion for the department and this is an opportunity for you to be involved in the continued development of a service where scientific process, data quality and patient experience are at the core of the daily activities.
Main duties of the job
To supervise the provision of diagnostic assessment, initiation of treatment and monitoring of patients in the respiratory sleep and ventilation service.
The supervision and provision of the diagnostic assessment services in Respiratory Physiology and the therapeutic monitoring of patients with lung disease.
Working for our organisation
The Trust provides services over five hospital sites and delivers services over a wide range of specialities. We are one of the country's largest general hospital foundation trusts - serving a population of more than 500,000 people - and the primary provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire. Our reputation for delivering high quality, well-led services in a hospital is rated as "GOOD" by the CQC.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
It is desirable for the successful applicant to have had some previous experience of home monitoring of CPAP/NIV patients, CPET and flight assessment testing.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Scientific knowledge acquired through formal training to Clinical Physiology BSc or equivalent level.
- Registration with RCCP/AHCS or working towards/eligible for registration.
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate Scientific/Clinical Qualification or working towards equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 2 years experience as a Senior Respiratory Physiologist.
- Experience of training and daily management of staff.
- Experience of non-routine respiratory physiological tests (airway challenge, hypoxic challenge, CPET)
- Experience of a sleep apnoea service.
- Experience of service development and audit.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in spoke physiology service.
- Experience of NIV delivery in both acute and non-acute settings.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Unstead
- Job title
- Principal Respiratory Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0118 322 5111
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