Junior Assistant Sleep Physiologist

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust; Acol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent hospital trust in England is seeking a dedicated individual to join their sleep physiology team. Responsibilities include ensuring sleep study equipment is operational, assisting patients with setup, and performing administrative tasks. The ideal candidate should be compassionate and enthusiastic, ready to work across different sites. This role is essential in providing high-quality healthcare experiences for patients and their families in the community.

Qualifications

• Caring and enthusiastic with a commitment to patient care.
• Ability to work across multiple sites delivering sleep studies.

Responsibilities

• Download sleep studies and check for good quality signals.
• Meet and greet patients, and set up sleep study equipment.
• Complete administration tasks associated with sleep studies.

Job description

The East Kent Hospitals Foundation Trust performs sleep study tests on various sites. We are looking for a caring and enthusiastic person to join our dynamic sleep physiology team.

Responsibilities

• Download sleep studies and check for good quality signals, and action poor quality sleep studies as appropriate.
• Meet and greet patients, family members and carers, and set up and demonstrate how to put on the sleep study equipment.
• Ensure sleep study equipment is in good working order; identify and report damage, or items that need repair, to EME.
• Complete administration tasks associated with sleep studies, e.g. phoning patients, updating written documentation, scanning paperwork to EDN/EPR, accurately updating spreadsheets and databases.
• Maintain stock levels for sleep studies.
• Support the sleep physiology team with downloading SD cards and returning these to patients, and sending out, or arranging collection of, masks and consumables.
• Support the sleep physiology team with returned CPAP devices, e.g. cleaning, downloading and deleting data, phoning patients and completing documentation.
• Support the sleep service with administration tasks e.g. supporting the CPAP email and telephone helpline, CPAP consumables stock management.
• Be available to work over all sites.
• Complete any other tasks as deemed appropriate related to the sleep physiology service.
• This position involves the ability to work on all sites delivering sleep studies.

About the Trust

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is "great healthcare from great people". Everything we do is guided by our values: "People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference". We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called "We care", which is about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day‑to‑day. We are looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.