Address An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated science graduate to work as a member of the Paediatric Sleep physiology team at Imperial College Healthcare Trust.
The Paediatric Sleep department at St Mary’s Hospital is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of clinical scientists, physiologists, respiratory consultants, and administrative staff. We are a rapidly expanding team that encourages career growth and progression. We provide diagnostics and therapies for respiratory and non-respiratory sleep disorders via cardiorespiratory and polysomnography sleep studies, MSLTs, and sleep consultations. The wider paediatric physiology team also cover paediatric lung function testing for the trust and are aligned with Imperial College London to conduct translational sleep and respiratory physiology research.
This role will primarily be tasked with the conduction and analysis of both in-hospital and home paediatric cardiorespiratory sleep studies, working a mixture of day, night, and evening shifts to produce high quality sleep diagnostic data and communicating this to the wider multi-disciplinary team, under the supervision of the Lead Clinical Scientist.
The applicant should have should have a BSc in clinical physiology or equivalent and have experience working with patients in a clinical setting. Experience with the set-up, analysis, and reporting of paediatric cardiorespiratory sleep studies is highly desirable.
As a member of the sleep study team the successful candidate will deliver high quality, individualised care to patients and relatives/carers, often independently during conduction of overnight in-hospital full polysomnography and cardiorespiratory sleep studies and home sleep study initialisation clinics, whilst working within the appropriate clinical frameworks. They will also be tasked with the analysis and reporting this cardiorespiratory sleep study data under the supervision of the Lead Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist and the service lead for Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep medicine.
Other tasks will include, involvement in service improvement projects, equipment ordering and maintenance, involvement in translational physiology research, department audit, and other tasks required for the running of the department in line with clinical and research governance frameworks.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
