Senior Healthcare Scientist (Paediatrics)

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking a dedicated Senior Healthcare Scientist/Physiologist to join a friendly paediatric respiratory team. This full-time role involves working on lung function and sleep investigations for paediatric patients, requiring a BSc in Clinical Physiology or Healthcare Science and relevant qualifications. The position offers a competitive salary between £56,276 to £63,176 per annum, along with a supportive work environment focused on improving patient outcomes. This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

Qualifications

• Able to work effectively as an individual and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Evidence of implementing innovation or having responsibility for service delivery.
• Well-organised and able to prioritise workload.

Responsibilities

• Work in paediatric services for lung function and sleep investigations.
• Undertake a wide range of lung function testing procedures.
• Maintain, calibrate and disinfect the equipment.

Skills

Teamwork

Organizational skills

Previous work with Paediatric patients

Education

BSc Clinical Physiology / Healthcare Science (Respiratory/Sleep)

ARTP Qualifications

Post-graduate courses (paediatrics) in sleep and respiratory

Tools

Hospital software

Job description

Overview

Senior Healthcare Scientist/Physiologist (Paediatrics) – closing date 12 February 2026. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated respiratory scientist/physiologist to join our friendly paediatric respiratory team. This is a 1 year fixed term contract to help expand our service and testing within the community diagnostic centre at Roehampton.

At St George's Hospital, we are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge healthcare solutions and improving patient outcomes. We are currently seeking a dedicated and experienced Healthcare Scientist to join our multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• To work in paediatric services for lung function and sleep investigations.
• Undertakes a wide range of both simple and highly complex procedures in Sleep and lung function testing, Set-up, download and analyse inpatient and domiciliary respiratory sleep studies.
• Reporting from simple to complex assessments in Sleep and lung function testing.
• To maintain, calibrate and disinfect the equipment according to Trust and departmental policy.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George's Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting — one of the country's principal teaching hospitals — is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, St Georges Hospital provides a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010. St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across south west London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Able to work effectively as an individual and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Evidence of implementing innovation or having responsibility for part of service delivery.
• Well-organised and able to prioritise own workload and that of others.
• Previous work with Paediatric patients.
• Previous experience of Hospital software.
• Evidence of managing a part of a service

Professional Qualifications

• BSc Clinical Physiology / Healthcare Science (Respiratory/Sleep)
• Continuing evidence of CPD
• Experience at a Band 6 or equivalent
• ARTP Qualifications
• Have or be applying for RCCP registration.
• Post-graduate courses (paediatrics) in sleep and respiratory

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.

Employer name

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Georges Hospital and Queen Mary's Roehampton

£56,276 to £63,176 a year Per annum including inner london HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-7332445-DE-CA

Job locations

St Georges Hospital and Queen Mary's Roehampton