Job summary
- Main area
- GI Physiologist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0587
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cheltenham General Hospital
- Town
- Cheltenham
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
GI Physiologist, Band 7
Band 7
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.
You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.
We value the diversity of our workforce and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
The post holder will undertake a variety of clinical diagnostic tests on patients needing gastrointestinal (GI) physiology investigations for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which includes interpreting results and providing accurate reports. They will be responsible for providing a professional service in relation to all patients, i.e. prioritization and list planning, organising appointments, conducting and reporting tests and instigating initial management plans for some conditions. The post holder will participate in improvement of the service, quality of care provision and research activities and will work as part of the Upper and Lower GI MDT services.
Main duties of the job
- Provision of Clinical Services/Clinical Responsibilities
- Professional Development, Education and Training
- Management and Leadership
- Research and Development
- Communications and Working Relationships
Working for our organisation
We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.
With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one or both of our innovative hospitals.
As well as generous annual leave allowance, you will have access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on-site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provision of Clinical Services/Clinical Responsibilities
Patient Care
- Undertake the full range of Upper and Lower GI Physiology diagnostic tests and procedures as required by patients.
- Undertake interpretation of results and provision of reports.
- Work according to professional standards and guidelines of the Association Gastrointestinal Physiologist (AGIP)
- Will be trained and assessed in the competencies required to undertake these activities to ensure that high quality of patient care is maintained.
Professional Development, Education and Training
- Develop own skill and knowledge, following the Trust personal development and Review System.
- Attend appropriate scientific and educational meetings and courses for personal skill and knowledge development and updating.
- Participate in Continued Professional Development.
Management and Leadership
- Contribute to and facilitate the development of quality improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to the development of local policies and procedures acting in a development and advisory capacity, including Health & Safety and Quality Assurance.
- Establish and promote collaborative working relationships and effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Disseminate the development of the role at local, regional and national events and conferences by undertaking presentations and public speaking/workshop activities.
- Provide GI training for students attending the unit for training.
- To train other professional groups in GI physiology measurement and update on advancements in practice and service delivery.
- To line manage/supervise staff and take a lead role in their training, education and development.
Research and Development
- To provide guidance and recommendations with regard to GI Physiological investigations within the department.
- Be accountable for service improvement that is conducive to the delivery of a high quality service.
- Work toward developing new services within GI physiology including BRAVO and hydrogen breath testing.
- Maintain knowledge of developments and current practices relevant to the clinical area and use this knowledge to carry out clinical practice founded on research and evidence.
- Undertake evidence-based research in GI physiology.
- Develop audit tools as required to justify, benchmark, quantify, develop and assess practice, designing and/or redesigning protocols and documents to assist the function of the Directorate
- Lead own independent research within GI physiology, which may have a demonstrable impact on investigative methods and / or patient pathways.
- Contribute towards designing and maintaining patient information leaflets for approval and publication to Trust Standards.
- Contribute to writing, reviewing and updating standard operating procedures for current and new patient diagnostic tests.
- Carry out regular audits of Laboratory activity and monitor the performance of the service and testing procedures.
- Provide complex technical support to clinical audits.
Communications and Working Relationships
- The post holder is required to obtain a detailed history, lifestyle, and dietary assessment and to council on appropriate modifications that may improve patient symptoms, depending on test results.
- To take informed consent prior to every patient diagnostic test.
- Ensure and promote effective methods of communication to both members of staff and patients attending for investigation.
- Communicates condition related information to patients and relatives, helping them to understand their diagnosis and future possible treatment pathways.
- To communicate in a manner that reassures patients whilst imparting complex information. This will require ability to overcome barriers in communication and ability to meet the needs of patients with disabilities.
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills will be required for imparting audit findings and sharing knowledge with national bodies/organisation
Financial/Physical Resources
- To order GI physiology consumables and other related supplies (e.g. pH/Impedance catheters, pharmacy supplies etc.) in collaboration with other departmental staff. This will require a working knowledge of acceptable stock levels and departmental demand.
- The post-holder is responsible for maintaining specialist test equipment where possible and reporting faults and escalating issues.
Assist in the effective budget management within the department, in terms of resource requirements, equipment and related supplier
General Working Conditions
- The post-holder should be in good health and possess a full driving license.
- The post-holder should have highly developed skills including excellent dexterity, hand eye co-ordination and sensory skills for the related procedures e.g. intubation of oesophageal catheter
in duties
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant Scientist degree in Clinical Physiology (GI Physiology)
- Demonstration of Continuing Professional Development
- To have attained a highly developed practical and theoretical expertise specific to gastrointestinal physiology testing and be proficient across the major repertoire of clinical investigative techniques and their critical interpretation
- To have a broad knowledge of routine and specialised investigative and analytical methods in GI physiology and an aptitude for technical troubleshooting and general problem solving
- To have achieved full (or about to imminently achieve) competencies across the entire repertoire of physiological investigations (equivalent to Masters level) of the GI tract and hold substantial in-post formal training in an approved training centre.
- Registered or working towards registration with the Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS), Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP) or the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable criteria
- Eligible (or about to imminently be eligible) for associate membership of the British Society of Gastroenterology compliant with the accreditation requirements of the Association of Gastrointestinal Physiologists (AGIP) as an independent practitioner in Gastrointestinal Physiology
Experience
Essential criteria
- To have achieved full (or about to imminently achieve) competencies across the entire repertoire of physiological investigations of the GI tract and demonstrable evidence of completion of an approved training pathway in an appropriate centre.
- To have developed practical, theoretical and analytical expertise across these areas to the level of an independent practitioner
- To have demonstrated (through formal assessment) a broad understanding of the normal anatomy and physiology of other organ systems pertinent to all modalities of clinical physiology
Knowledge/ Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate knowledge clinical practice
- Evidence of strategic NHS awareness
- Able to train other relevant health care professionals including other Allied Health Professionals, Nurses and Medical Students.
- Able to handle complaints, face to face, in a non-confrontational manner.
- Confident and competent to act appropriately in emergencies and in the event of significant clinical findings whether physically on-site or via telephone throughout the 24 hour period.
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
- Olivia Allen
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 5376
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