Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Fixed Term contract)
- Job ref
- 196-LIS9832-A
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 PA incl. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist - 12 month Fixed Term
NHS AfC: Band 7
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified and enthusiastic Highly Specialised Physiologist to join our Neurophysiology team covering a 12 month secondment. We undertake a wide range of range of investigations across our adult and paediatric services this includes EEG, Home-Video Telemetry, NCS, IOM and Evoked Potentials.
We have also have an active private patient service which offers additional hours.
The candidate will be expected to work a 37.5hr per week.
Main duties of the job
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Provides a range of routine EEG and specialised adult and paediatric clinical neurophysiology services across a range of procedures to patients with developmental, neurological and/or psychiatric disorders referred to the departments from across the Trust and other hospitals. This includes analysis and interpretation of data and the provision of patient reports.
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Active involvement in Continuous Monitoring for PICU and neurology ward-based recordings (bedside telemetry and CFAM / aEEG).
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Supports the NCS/EMG service in the department and on the wards and provides routine and specialised nerve conduction studies.
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Actively contribute and implement policies and procedures
Actively participates in the paediatric and adult telemetry service (Inpatient and home telemetry) and spinal monitoring service.
Actively participate in training, education and assessment in line with National and Professional requirements. -
Participate in quality assurance and/or research and developmental programmes.
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Works collaboratively on a day-to-day basis with others to contribute to the smooth and efficient running of the service.
Supports the training of student physiologists within the department.
Working for our organisation
The cross-site Clinical Neurophysiology Departments are part of the Adult and Paediatric Neurosciences. The departments at both the Guy’s, St Thomas’s and the Evelina Children’s Hospital sites at present perform a wide range of neurophysiological investigations to examine the central and peripheral nervous system in patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. These include routine and sleep EEG’s on neonates, children and adults both in the department, in the patient’s home and on the wards, including intensive care We additionally provide multi-modality evoked potentials. There is a busy peripheral neurophysiology service with Consultant-led EMG clinics and physiologist-led carpal tunnel and sensory neuropathy clinics. We are in the process of developing our neuromuscular ultrasound service. There are additional specialist services provided for paediatric video-telemetry and spinal cord monitoring.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
Technical
1. To be responsible for planning, performing and interpreting a wide range of neurophysiological investigations – both routine and non-routine – carried out within the departments, as well as portable/bedside recordings, ensuring that high technical and professional standards are maintained at all times.
2. To obtain and optimise collection of patient data throughout the testing period to enable accurate and efficient interpretative analysis of tests. To continually monitor, and take initiative and appropriate action where necessary.
3. To obtain a clinical history and modify the test accordingly.
4. To provide accurate factual reports in a timely manner in accordance with departmental policy.
5. To supervise on-going recordings obtained by junior physiologists, where applicable, ensuring that technical and professional standards are maintained.
6. To advise referring clinicians on investigation requirements and make suggestions on adaptation of appropriate techniques.
7. To provide an interpretive analysis of clinical data along with and/or in the absence of the Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist.
8. To educate, teach and train medical and non- medical staff throughout the Trust and present information at scientific meetings.
9. To liaise with equipment manufacturers over faults or problems with equipment, databases or software used in any part of the service and ensure that all members of staff are informed and trained to deal with changes in operating procedures.
10. To promote the comfort, well being and dignity of patients being investigated keeping accompanying persons aware, as appropriate, of the test requirements for successful investigation and of the logistics of the subsequent return of the patient to home or ward.
11. To identify patients’ physical, social and psychological needs in collaboration with ward and departmental based staff.
Review of this Job Description
This job description is intended as an outline of the general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the organisation. To be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder.
Initials and date of Preparation
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Provides evidence for ability to perform EEG independently -post qualification years (1 point for every year complete up to max score of 6)
- Provides evidence for ability to perform NCS independently (3 points for upper and 3 for lower limb)
- Provides evidence for ability to perform Inpatient EEG independently
- Provides evidence for ability to report both outpatient and inpatient EEG
Desirable criteria
- Provides evidence for ability to perform and report Telemetry
- Provides evidence for ability to perform and report Complex NCS
- Provides evidence for ability to carry out IOM unsupervised (2 point for without supervision, +2 for complex cases, addition point for number of years unsupervised))
- Provides evidence for ability to perform and report paediatric EEG
Language and Communication
Essential criteria
- Application form well written with proper use of grammar and attention to detail
Experience
Essential criteria
- After obtaining PTP or Part 1 - Post qualification years (1 point for every year complete up to max score of 6)
Education
Essential criteria
- BSc or equivalent / ECNE Pt1
Desirable criteria
- MSc or equivalent / Part 2
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Simeran Sharma
- Job title
- Lead Physiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071883953
- Additional information
Department visits are welcome. Please contact Simeran Sharma for further information.
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