Clinical Scientist/Highly Specialised Sleep Physiologist

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Birmingham is looking for an experienced specialist to provide advanced paediatric clinical respiratory and sleep services to children. The role involves collaborating with medical staff, leading sleep services, and ensuring high-quality care. Ideal candidates will have advanced knowledge in this field and experience in managing clinical services. Flexible working arrangements may be available.

Qualifications

• Advanced specialist knowledge in paediatric respiratory and sleep conditions.
• Ability to analyse complex medical data and reports.
• Experience in teaching and supervising junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical respiratory and sleep service to children and families.
• Analyse and interpret complex results and provide reports.
• Act as lead sleep specialist and manage services independently.

Skills

Clinical respiratory service

Sleep study analysis

Team collaboration

Decision making

Job description

Overview

Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged. Provides advanced specialist paediatric clinical respiratory and sleep service to children attending the department at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Patients may suffer from a wide variety of medical disorders, a significant proportion of which are respiratory or sleep in nature. You will interact with scientific and medical staff within the respiratory & sleep physiology team and wider key stakeholders (clinical referral teams, patients, families and general public).

Responsibilities

• Provides advanced specialist paediatric clinical respiratory & sleep service to children and their families attending the department and across non‑dedicated environments within the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
• Analyse and interpret highly complex results and provision of factual reports, provide education, line management and clinical supervision of junior staff and advice to clinicians.
• Act as lead sleep specialist, including service provision, teaching, audit and quality of a specialist area of clinical sleep service delivery in conjunction with the lung function department manager.
• Work alone and collaboratively with others on a day‑to‑day basis to ensure that service needs are met and to plan and prioritise own workload.
• Responsibility for the day‑to‑day decision making in the Lung Function and Sleep service in the absence of the Head of Department, as required.
• Plan, perform and interpret a range of advanced specialist respiratory & sleep diagnostic investigations to a high level of competence on children without supervision, with appropriate actions taken as necessary to obtain maximum results.
• Be involved in the appropriate deployment and supervision of staff and resource management and collaborate with other professionals and agencies to ensure service provision meets professional standards.
• Perform regular machine checks on all Lung Function/ Sleep equipment, document any faults found and take appropriate action where necessary.
• Undertake non‑invasive ventilation (NIV) titration to patients when required, complying with Trust policy and department protocol.
• Use highly developed skills and judgement to determine when a patient requires emergency attention, discussing findings with appropriate medical staff.
• Provide support and assistance to respiratory & sleep physiology staff in dealing with difficult and conflicting situations including those that are of a clinical/professional nature.
• Analyse, score and report urgent sleep studies in a timely manner and upload reports on Hyperspace.
• Organise, attend and contribute to sleep MDT, service development meetings and ward rounds.
• Analyse and interpret complex sleep data, provide factual reports to medical staff, act on and alert any unexpected abnormal test results to the line manager or medical staff and oversee reports formulated by junior staff.

Additional Information

• Please note, visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles in line with current UKVI regulations. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for sponsorship before submitting your application.

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Our Trust

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world‑class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world‑leading neo‑natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family‑centred care.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women’s Hospital is one of two dedicated women’s hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0‑25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.