Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a qualified Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist to join the Neurophysiology team at a leading NHS foundation trust. The role involves conducting a wide range of neurophysiological investigations, including EEG and nerve conduction studies, while ensuring high standards of patient care and technical excellence. The successful candidate will work collaboratively within a dedicated team, contributing to both clinical and educational activities, and will play a key role in supporting the training of junior staff.

Qualifications

• Ability to perform EEG and NCS independently.
• Experience in inpatient EEG and telemetry reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provides routine EEG and specialized neurophysiology services.
• Involvement in continuous monitoring for PICU and neurology wards.
• Participates in training and quality assurance.

Skills

EEG

NCS

Telemetry

Complex NCS

Education

BSc or equivalent

MSc or equivalent

Job description

Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Clinical Neurophysiology Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 196-LIS9535

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Thomas's Hospital Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 PA Salary period Yearly Closing 28/05/2025 23:59

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. 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

• 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.
• Active involvement in Continuous Monitoring for PICU and neurology ward-based recordings (bedside telemetry and CFAM / aEEG).

· Supports the NCS/EMG service in the department and on the wards and provides routine and specialised nerve conduction studies.

• 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.
• 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

1. 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.

Quality

1. To attend Consultant’s reporting sessions as required and ensure that the technical and clinical input to the session supports the consultant diagnosis and report.

2. To attend Trust and regional audit meetings, and support the ongoing development of audit into Neurophysiology best practice. Also attend regular neurophysiology meetings involving physiologists, clinicians and support staff.

3. To regularly attend educational and scientific meetings, and feedback to other team members.

4. Ensure personal compliance with regards to mandatory, professional, and personal development according to service needs.

5. To maintain quality control procedures as directed by departmental policy including regular machine verification.

6. To develop and maintain unified quality standards for the service across the Trust.

7. To respond to any complaints, inform the business manager and assist in the response to these as required.

8. Where possible, rectify faults detected in equipment and arrange for repairs to be carried out.

9. To liaise with doctors, nursing and ancillary staff to promote the smooth running of the Department and to achieve good communication between all members of the team.

10. To work within agreed policies and protocols of the Trust and professional body.

11. To contribute to the implementation of the Trust and Directorate framework for clinical governance, including performing audits and setting of standards for the speciality and the Trust, thereby monitoring, maintaining and improving a quality service.

12. Ensure safe working practices and a safe environment for the delivery of the service.

13. Undertake responsibility for the efficient and effective use of financial resources.

Management and Training

1. To deputise and manage and take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Department in the absence of the service manager.

2. Teach, supervise and support the junior technical staff within the Department.

3. Teach medical and non-medical staff within the Trust as and when required.

4. To liaise with secretarial and clerical staff in arranging appointments for Clinical Neurophysiology as appropriate.

5. To assist in the preparation of appropriate and accurate statistical information and audit for the Department as required.

6. Ensure adequate stock levels are maintained.

7. Ensure that the Trust’s Equal Opportunities policy is adhered to by all staff, contractors and outside agencies while in the department.

8. To ensure accurate logging and filing of data from neurophysiological investigations and be responsible for its availability and retrieval.

Research and Development

1. To actively participate in research, clinical trials and publications undertaken by the Department and collaborate with other departments within the Trust when necessary.

2. To liaise with the service manager and consultant(s) to introduce new technology and methods that will benefit the Department and the Trust.

The following statement forms part of all job descriptions:-

The post holder is required to follow Trust policies and procedures which are regularly updated including:

Confidentiality / Data Protection / Freedom of Information

Post holders must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients, staff and other health service business in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 1998. Post holders must not, without prior permission, disclose any information regarding patients or staff. If any member of staff has communicated any such information to an unauthorised person those staff will be liable to dismissal. Moreover, the Data Protection Act 1998 also renders an individual liable for prosecution in the event of unauthorised disclosure of information.

Following the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2005, post holders must apply the Trust’s FOI procedure if they receive a written request for information.

Information Governance

All staff must comply with information governance requirements. These includes statutory responsibilities (such as compliance with the Data Protection Act), following national guidance (such as the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice) and compliance with local policies and procedures (such as the Trust's Confidentiality policy). Staff are responsible for any personal information (belonging to staff or patients) that they access and must ensure it is stored, processed and forwarded in a secure and appropriate manner.

Post holders must at all times fulfil their responsibilities with regard to the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy and equality laws.

Health and Safety

All post holders have a responsibility, under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and subsequently published regulations, to ensure that the Trust’s health and safety policies and procedures are complied with to maintain a safe working environment for patients, visitors and employees.

Infection Control

All post holders have a personal obligation to act to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). They must attend mandatory training in Infection Control and be compliant with all measures required by the Trust to reduce HCAIs. All post holders must comply with Trust infection screening and immunisation policies as well as be familiar with the Trust’s Infection Control Policies, including those that apply to their duties, such as Hand Decontamination Policy, Personal Protective Equipment Policy, safe procedures for using aseptic techniques and safe disposal of sharps.

All post holders have a responsibility to report risks such as clinical and non-clinical accidents or incidents promptly. They are expected to be familiar with the Trust’s use of risk assessments to predict and control risk, as well as the incident reporting system for learning from mistakes and near misses in order to improve services. Post holders must also attend training identified by their manager, or stated by the Trust to be mandatory.

Flexible Working

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

Post holders have a general responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Sustainability

It is the responsibility of all staff to minimise the Trust’s environmental impact by recycling wherever possible, switching off lights, computers monitors and equipment when not in use, minimising water usage and reporting faults promptly.

It is the Trust’s policy to promote health. Smoking, therefore, is actively discouraged. It is illegal within Trust buildings and vehicles.

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

• Provides evidence for ability to perform EEG independently
• Provides evidence for ability to perform NCS independently
• Provides evidence for ability to perform Inpatient EEG independently
• 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
• Provides evidence for ability to perform and report Telemetry

Language and Communication

• Application form well written with proper use of grammar and attention to detail

Experience

• After obtaining PTP or Part 1 - Post qualification years (1 point for every year complete up to max score of 6)

Education

• BSc or equivalent / ECNE Pt1
• MSc or equivalent / Part 2

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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