This is an opportunity to join the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, based at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, as a Highly Specialist Healthcare Scientist (Band 7) on a fixed term (12 months) contract. The department provides an extensive range of highly specialised diagnostic procedures for patients of all ages with an excellent reputation for staff development and training with accreditation to deliver the STP & HSST programmes.

Applicants will require registration with the HCPC or AHCS, Masters Level Qualification or Equivalent (Minimum = Post Grad Certification + Experience). Applicant must have at least 4 years experience of working within a Clinical Neurophysiology department with a minimum of 1 year post qualification as a Healthcare Scientist.

Job Summary:

1. To provide complex, specialist clinical neurophysiology diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to patients of all ages, from a range of specialties, suffering from a wide variety of medical disorders including those which may be neurological and/or psychiatric in nature.
2. To work in isolation at various satellite clinics including Jersey, Channel Islands.
3. To be adaptive in learning new techniques and undergo further training in specialist areas as required in delivering the service.
4. To undertake interpretation of results and provision of reports.
5. To actively participate in the development and training of student healthcare scientists and junior medical staff.
6. To participate in quality assurance, audit and/or research and development programmes.

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