Outpatient Respiratory NIV/Sleep Disordered Breathing Practitioner
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 Medi 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 02 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Margate, CT9 4AN |
| Cwmni: | East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7354044/344-4044QEH |
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A Vacancy at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
The NIV/Sleep Service is the largest domiciliary service in the South East, outside of London. We have a caseload of over 600 patients receiving NIV therapy, and support the sleep service with new patient assessments, seeing up to 50 new patients a week who have a new diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing. Overall the Sleep service has over 8,000 patients in receipt of CPAP therapy.
Our team consists of Advanced/Enhanced Practitioners, Sleep and Respiratory Physiologists, Associate Practitioners/Physiologists and admin. We provide a service to QEQM, Buckland Hospital - Dover, Royal Victoria Hospital – Folkestone and Kent and Canterbury Hospital. We consider ourselves an inclusive service that welcomes staff from a variety of healthcare backgrounds, including nursing, AHP and Physiology, which provides a varied skill set within the team. We work closely with the Respiratory Consultants, the Consultant Respiratory Nurse, the inpatient practitioners and physiology teams within the trust. We also have an excellent relationship with our Community Respiratory Team colleagues (KCHFT), ensuring our respiratory patient’s pathway is as smooth and streamlined as possible.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner responsible for providing professional management of sleep and respiratory failure patients as part of the Domiciliary Sleep/NIV team
• To organise and manage own caseload
• To line manage Associate Practitioners/Physiologists
• Develop a learning culture and facilitate interdisciplinary learning across respiratory/sleep medicine Enables others through mentoring, teaching and/or supervision of colleagues and students. Provides mentorship, opportunity for peer-learning and constructive feedback to guide, support, motivate and develop others in the multidisciplinary team
• Take responsibility for the day-to-day management of domiciliary NIV therapy within resource limitations
• Is an enhanced autonomous practitioner who undertakes a comprehensive assessment of all patients referred to the service. Includes assessments of medical, functional, social and mental status.
Develops a care plan and undertakes and co-ordinates its implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
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'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.
If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Sep 2025
The NIV/Sleep Service is the largest domiciliary service in the South East, outside of London. We have a caseload of over 600 patients receiving NIV therapy, and support the sleep service with new patient assessments, seeing up to 50 new patients a week who have a new diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing. Overall the Sleep service has over 8,000 patients in receipt of CPAP therapy.
Our team consists of Advanced/Enhanced Practitioners, Sleep and Respiratory Physiologists, Associate Practitioners/Physiologists and admin. We provide a service to QEQM, Buckland Hospital - Dover, Royal Victoria Hospital – Folkestone and Kent and Canterbury Hospital. We consider ourselves an inclusive service that welcomes staff from a variety of healthcare backgrounds, including nursing, AHP and Physiology, which provides a varied skill set within the team. We work closely with the Respiratory Consultants, the Consultant Respiratory Nurse, the inpatient practitioners and physiology teams within the trust. We also have an excellent relationship with our Community Respiratory Team colleagues (KCHFT), ensuring our respiratory patient’s pathway is as smooth and streamlined as possible.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner responsible for providing professional management of sleep and respiratory failure patients as part of the Domiciliary Sleep/NIV team
• To organise and manage own caseload
• To line manage Associate Practitioners/Physiologists
• Develop a learning culture and facilitate interdisciplinary learning across respiratory/sleep medicine Enables others through mentoring, teaching and/or supervision of colleagues and students. Provides mentorship, opportunity for peer-learning and constructive feedback to guide, support, motivate and develop others in the multidisciplinary team
• Take responsibility for the day-to-day management of domiciliary NIV therapy within resource limitations
• Is an enhanced autonomous practitioner who undertakes a comprehensive assessment of all patients referred to the service. Includes assessments of medical, functional, social and mental status.
Develops a care plan and undertakes and co-ordinates its implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
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'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.
If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Sep 2025