Highly Specialist Clinical Physiologist (Neurophysiology)NHS

Job summary

The Highly Specialist Clinical Physiologist works under the general supervision of the Clinical Service Manager and lead Clinical Scientist for the Wye Valley Neurophysiology service to provide a comprehensive range of Neurophysiological investigations including all modalities of outpatient and inpatient EEG and upper and lower limb nerve conduction study investigations.

The person should have specialist experience in basic and some advanced neurophysiology testing. To perform autonomous diagnostic investigations as an independent practitioner using clinical experience to manage patient care in a medical clinical environment. The person should demonstrate ambition and a willingness to learn and evolve their level of practice to an advanced level.

if you have applied before and were unsuccessful your application will not be considered

Main duties of the job

• Plan, perform, analyse and interpret a range of basic and advanced Neurophysiological investigations to a high level of competence and within the agreed competency framework, working independently and taking appropriate action where necessary.
• Perform routine and specialised Electroencephalographic (EEG) investigations in adults and children, including departmental, ward-based and emergency EEGs on ITU and SCBU, including recordings on extremely premature infants in incubators.
• Independently undertake specialised EEG investigations, including sleep-deprived EEGs, recordings during medication administration on ITU/SCBU.
• Perform visual evoked responses, including light- and dark-adapted studies and pattern electroretinograms.
• Independently perform practitioner-led carpal tunnel screening and ulnar nerve function clinics, and prolonged ambulatory EEG studies of 24-72 hours.
• Provide accurate and timely reports on a range of Neurophysiological investigations and provide specialist advice to clinicians, exercising professional judgement where findings are complex, equivocal or outside expected parameters.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient needs, communicating complex technical information in an accessible manner and managing sensitive, difficult or challenging interactions appropriately.
• Maintain responsibility for infection prevention and control, patient safety, safeguarding, confidentiality, Data Protection and Caldicott principles within all clinical activities.

Job description

Work as part of a small team providing a comprehensive clinical neurophysiology service. See detailed job description

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.