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Immediately
Job Title: Advanced Practitioner - Sleep Physiology
You will be joining a busy sleep physiology service based across five sites in Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone, and Margate. We are a friendly, welcoming team who enjoy working together and supporting each other. We have links with a number of local universities, including Canterbury Christ Church University and Kent and Medway Medical School. The sleep physiology team is passionate about supporting staff development identified via regular supportive one-to-ones and the appraisal process.
You will work as an effective team member by taking responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the day-to-day care provided to patients, whether this be diagnostic or therapeutic.
The day-to-day aspects of the role require that you will be able to:
Working autonomously as an advanced practitioner within the sleep physiology service, you will be responsible for providing good quality diagnostic respiratory sleep studies, analysis, and reporting, following local, national, and international guidance. You will lead the sleep physiology service team in this regard.
At times, you will partake in the service’s “one stop” sleep clinics, undertaking initial consultations where you would conduct comprehensive assessments of patients referred to the service, including evaluations for medical, functional, social, and mental status. Facts and findings from assessment tools may be complex or confusing, and sound skills of analysis and interpretation are required to make appropriate judgments. You will develop individualised patient-centred care plans and coordinate their implementation, ensuring that care and support provided is evidence-based. You will be highly competent to an advanced level in the use of APAP.
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. We are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Work permit in United Kingdom: Required
English language skill: Intermediate (B1)
Driver's license: Not required
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