Senior Sleep and Ventilation Technician

Job description
Job Overview

This role provides and exciting opportunity for an experienced sleep technician and self-motivated individual with specialist skills particularly in managing patients with sleep apnoea. The Sleep and Ventilation Service currently includes an ENT Consultant, respiratory physician, nurse consultant and specialist nurse. The service has been established for a number of years and has progressively developed and is looking at new ways of meeting the needs of patients the .

This post is suitable for an experienced sleep technician who has a broad knowledge of sleep disorders, particularly sleep apnoea. You should have previous experience of patients using CPAP and some knowledge of non-invasive ventilation. You will provide services mainly to outpatients in specialist clinics face to face, but there is also remote or virtual data review as well as telephone and electronic patient record messaging.

Main duties of the job

This role is part of the multidisciplinary team responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the sleep and ventilation work schedule, as well as providing a direct patient service. The job role involves a patient contact element including reviewing patient requirements for ventilator masks and fitting where required, as well as downloading patient data from their ventilator device and identifying for early interventions. The role also includes managing the waiting list, postal and virtual sleep services, as well as preparing the appointments and paperwork, typing up letters, telephoning patients, organising equipment requests and orders to deliver excellence in care to patients and other members of the public. Additionally, the role involved training of medical and nursing staff in the use of sleep related software, setting up CPAP and fitting CPAP masks.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
• Health care science degree or suitable level of equivalent experience
• Sleep and ventilation course

Desirable criteria
• Patient systems management including booking appointment

Experience

Essential criteria
• Suitable experience of dealing with patients
• Able to train medical and nursing staff in the use of Sleep related software as well as setting up CPAP machines and sizing and fitting patient masks
• Able to prioritise workload and manage patient waiting lists including the 18week waiting list

Desirable criteria
• Basic Knowledge of : Clinical Governance, Risk Management, Project Management

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria
• Handling Data and Information
• Patient and customer service skills
• Experience of sleep and ventilation service and providing customers with correct equipment

Specialist Requirements

Essential criteria
• Where required able to work flexible shifts, weekends and bank holidays as required
• To work in other areas of the trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the +00,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £4+m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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