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Job Opportunity: Clinical Scientist/Highly Specialised Sleep Physiologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
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- Full time
- Part time
- Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week (Minimum 30 hours, opportunity to work occasional nights)
- Salary
- £47,810 – £54,710 per annum
- Site
- Birmingham Children Hospital
Job Overview
Provides advanced specialist pediatric 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).
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. Patients may suffer from a wide variety of medical disorders of both lung function and sleep origin.
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.