Assistant Practitioner - Respiratory and Sleep

NHS; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Great Yarmouth is seeking an Assistant Practitioner (Respiratory) to join the team for sleep and lung function services. The role involves supporting patient diagnostics, maintaining equipment, and ensuring quality care within a community diagnostic setting. Candidates should have prior healthcare experience and relevant certifications. Competitive remuneration and professional development opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a health care setting.
• Previous experience in performing home sleep study on patients.
• Previous experience in performing spirometry tests on patients.
• Previous experience in measuring and recording patient observations.
• Previous experience in stock control.

Responsibilities

• Support the provision of lung function measurement and OSA service.
• Prepare, download, and issue diagnostic sleep study equipment.
• Ensure sleep diagnostic tests are quality assured.
• Respond to CPAP equipment queries from patients.
• Accurately document patient observations.
• Assist in the maintenance and disposal of medical equipment.
• Update sleep databases and departmental spreadsheets.
• Communicate effectively with peers and senior staff.

Skills

Basic computer data input skills

Good organisation skills

Experience with Excel database

Education

ARTP Spirometry Certification

Job description

The closing date is 28 November 2025

Assistant Practitioner (Respiratory) post will join our growing team for sleep & lung function services at JPUH. You may required to work across multiples sites.

The majority of work will be out patient clinics within our new build community diagnostic centres, although there may be some ward based in-patient tests within your working days.

You will have the opportunity to train / develop skills and participate in both sleep and lung function clinics as part of a supportive team of staff.

The majority of the role involves direct patient contact, but does include, stock duties, data input and cleaning of equipment.

Main duties of the job

• To support the provision and delivery of more basic lung function measurement and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) service for patients at the James Paget Hospital.
• To be responsible for preparing, downloading and issuing patients with diagnostic sleep study equipment.
• To ensure sleep diagnostic tests are of good quality are of good quality with acceptable channel markers available for analysis.
• To provide a timely response to CPAP equipment replacement and maintenance queries from patients on a daily basis, either by telephone or walk-in patients.
• To accurately measure and document patient observations.
• To assist in the ordering, stock rotation, maintenance, reprocessing and arranging disposal of medical equipment in use or provided by sleep & lung function service.
• To accurately update sleep databases and departmental spreadsheets.
• To effectively communicate with your peers and notify senior staff of any concerns.
• To provide quality assured diagnostic spirometry testing in-line with recognised national guidelines.
• Services you may be involved with may include home sleep study testing, overnight pulse oximetry, spirometry, FeNO, earlobe capillary blood gases, CPAP therapy.
• Flexibility to work across multiple sites if and when required.

About us

We want to attract the best and brightest people to work with us and that means we will look after you from the moment you apply for a role at the Trust and throughout your career with us. Our staff are central to everything we do, and we believe that investing in you is crucial if we want to enable you to reach your full potential.

Job responsibilities

Key duties and responsibilities

1. To provide the first point of contact for patients, relatives and carers arriving for an appointment with the Sleep & Lung Function Services, presenting a professional, calm and confident manner in line with the Trusts Values & Behaviours.
2. To assist with all enquiries to the Sleep & Lung Function service including CPAP parts/checks using the CPAP database and issue CPAP accessories as required, escalating to the appropriate healthcare professional, e.g. Physiologists or Sleep Service Nurse as appropriate.
3. To assist with CPAP and Oximeter clinics by undertaking patient observations, downloading of CPAP data cards and issuing pulse oximeters to help physiologists assess therapy effectiveness.
4. To be responsible for the set up and instruction for home screening studies, ranging from multi-channel sleep studies to overnight oximetry assessments.
5. To be responsible for the set up and instruction for In-Patient screening studies, ranging from multi-channel sleep studies to overnight oximetry assessments.
6. To download home screening study data and prepare all necessary equipment for the next patients use.
7. Be responsible for highlighting any discrepancies within the downloaded sleep study data to the Physiologists.
8. To maintain, clean and calibrate all sleep analyzing equipment and to prepare equipment for disinfection in line with Trust policy and procedures.
9. To complete requisitions, organize and identify faulty equipment that needs to be repaired or replaced.
10. To un-pack deliveries and checks against orders and asset registers.
11. To communicate all information and messages to patients in a professional and sensitive manner.
12. Photocopying, filing and record keeping as required.
13. To ensure that the patients records are kept up to date and in good order, in accordance with Trust Policy.
14. To work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, including across multi sites, also weekends and bank holidays as required.
15. To undertake any new procedures that may be adopted in the future within competencies.
16. To support junior staff members in their development.
17. To represent the Sleep and Lung Function Services to other departments and interdepartmental projects and groups as required.
18. Any other appropriate duties which may be required to meet the needs of the service.

Education, Training and Development

Be willing to further your development by being willing to train to perform quality assured diagnostic Spirometry, FeNO tests and earlobe capillary blood gases in outpatient clinics and on wards.

To be responsible for meeting and maintaining personal mandatory training requirements.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• ARTP Spirometry Certification

Knowledge and Experience

• Previous experience in a health care setting
• Previous experience in performing home sleep study on patient
• Previous experience in performing spirometry tests on patient
• Previous experience in measuring and recording patient observations
• Previous experience in stock control

Skills and Knowledge

• Basic computer data input skills
• Good organisation skills
• Experience with Excel database

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

James Paget University Hospital, Northgate Community Diagnostic Centres,