Job summary
- Main area
- Physiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 432-HR1233-25
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ipswich Hospital
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Paediatric Physiologist (Sleep)
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
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If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Specialist Paediatric Physiologist ( Sleep) at Ipswich Hospital.
We are looking for an advanced Paediatric Physiologist with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who has an experience of a wide range of respiratory physiology procedures.
You will have highly specialist expertise, underpinned by theory and experience.
You will undertake complex diagnostic analysis and interpretation (Sleep), provide verbal and written interpretation to referring medical terms on simple, specialist, complex assessments.
If you're ready for a rewarding new challenge and grow your career with us, apply now and help us deliver excellence in respiratory and sleep diagnostics.
Main duties of the job
- Review all referrals that come into the sleep service and assess suitability for the requested investigations and/ or treatments;
- To deliver and maintain a sleep physiology testing service that provides multi-channel sleep studies (Polygraphy) and overnight pulse oximetry recordings;
- To maintain the sleep service database ensuring all patient data is recorded and updates onto the patients’ medical records;
- To effectively assess the care needs of patients and their families within the sleep service;
- To deliver and maintain CPAP and Non-Invasive ventilation service that supports patients with telephone/remote/face-to-face follow up;
- To provide support for consultant-led clinics where respiratory function measurement and/or where ventilator devices may be required;
- To provide support to the sleep staff in the event of covering sickness and annual leave;
- To work as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team;
Working for our organisation
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Clinical Respiratory Physiology/Healthcare Science/Biological Physiology or equivalent relevant subject
- ARTP certification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree or equivalent in Respiratory Physiology
- RCCP and/or AHCS registration
- ESRS Somnologist certification or working towards.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience as a Band 6 Respiratory or Sleep physiologist
- Experience in physiological investigations in particularly to performing and analysing respiratory polygraphy and oximetery sleep studies as well as more complex testing.
- Competent in set up of both CPAP and BiPAP devices
- Experience of performing and interpreting simple, specialist and complex/advanced testing for sleep.
Desirable criteria
- Experienced in Polysomnography and other sleep studies, some awareness is desirable.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Rachel Pyman
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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