Senior Healthcare Scientist in Respiratory and Sleep: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 39,959 to 48,117 £ / Year

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

As the largest and leading specialist cardiothoracic hospital in the UK, Royal Papworth Hospital is dedicated to providing patients with the best possible care through the excellence of our caring staff.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is based on the world-class Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC).

The Sleep Laboratory is a major center for the provision of sleep medicine with a national referral base. It is one of the largest in the UK with a purpose-built 10 bed polysomnography unit and is allied with the CPAP hub, Respiratory Physiology and the Respiratory support unit. It provides a comprehensive sleep service including polysomnography with over 1,000 inpatient investigations per year, outpatient actigraphy and respiratory polygraphy assessments and an active research programme.

You will be involved in the day to day running of sleep assessments, setting up monitoring equipment, troubleshooting problems overnight and during the daytime testing. The post holder will be responsible for the analysis, interpretation and reporting of full polysomnogram and all other sleep assessment. Where required you may be starting patients on CPAP therapy and performing some respiratory physiology testing such as spirometry within the Sleep Laboratory and the Respiratory Physiology department.

Main duties of the job

The post holder in this role will primarily work in the Sleep Laboratory, but where required, across all departments to provide high quality, patient focused and efficient Sleep Science, Respiratory Physiology, and CPAP services within Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust.

The key duties of the role revolve around providing and developing the services:

Perform, lead, analyse and interpret basic and advanced sleep assessments including full polysomnography, actigraphy and pulmonary function tests.

Initiate CPAP therapy and troubleshoot patient problems

Critically appraise, monitor and review current services to ensure policies and procedures are complete, up-to-date and evidence-based.

Identify areas for improvement or development and produce evidence-based proposals.

Promote and facilitate links between the 3 departments to improve patient pathway, efficiency and communication.

Take an active role in education within the departments including healthcare scientist and/or other professional discipline training and assessment.

Take an active role in research and audit from concept to presentation and outcome with a supporting role in other department research.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • *BSc (Hons) In Clinical Physiology (Respiratory and sleep) or equivalent
  • *ARTP Practitioner (or equivalent experience
  • *Mentorship training or experience
  • Appropriate professional registration

Desirable

  • ARTP Practitioner Qualification or equivalent
  • ARTP CPAP qualification
  • A-STEP
  • ESRS Expert Somnologist Technologist Qualification
  • RPSGT
  • Registration with RCCP, ACHS or HCPC.

Experience

Essential

  • *Ability to perform a wide range of pulmonary function tests and sleep assessments
  • *Ability to set up, troubleshoot and critically review CPAP therapy.
  • *Ability to analyse information
  • *Proficient in MS Word, Excel
  • *Good verbal and written communication skills
  • *Experience of working within respiratory physiology, CPAP and sleep science
  • *Experience of delivering formal or informal teaching
  • *Experience of leading projects
  • *Ability to communicate complex or sensitive information to colleagues, patients and relatives
  • *Ability to prioritise own workload in relation to the priorities of the department
  • *Ability to pay close attention to detail in verbal, written and electronic communication.
  • *Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure a high quality service
  • *Ability to work on own initiative

Desirable

  • Experience of working as a clinical respiratory and sleep physiologist
  • Experience of noxturnal, visi-download, Sentrysuite and dominolite.
  • Experience of RESMED, SEFAM and Lowenstein CPAP devices.
  • Experience of airview.

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Evidence ability to uphold the Trust’s values Compassion Excellence Collaboration.
  • Ability to undertake manual handling tasks
  • Ability to deal with sensitive information in a professional manner
  • Ability to concentrate for periods of time whilst testing patients and inputting data into a computer
  • Ability to travel to other sites if required

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 23 August 2026

To apply for this job please visit papworth.tal.net.