Specialist Sleep & Respiratory Physiologist

Job Description:

Specialist Sleep & Respiratory Physiologist

Based Onsite - Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, SW5 0TU

Full time (37.5 hours)

Permanent

Competitive Salary

We make health happen

As a Specialist Clinical Respiratory & Sleep Physiologist at Cromwell Hospital, you’ll play a senior role in our busy respiratory and sleep clinics. You’ll champion clinical excellence, support the daily running of both labs, and contribute to the development of world-class services. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a purpose-driven organisation where your clinical expertise, operational insight, and teaching skills will directly impact patient care and service innovation.

How you’ll help us make health happen

• Deliver a comprehensive range of respiratory diagnostics for adult and paediatric patients, including lung function testing, allergy, bronchial provocation studies, and assisting with advanced procedures such as CPET, HPVT, and fitness-to-fly assessments.
• Provide specialist sleep and ventilation services, including polygraphy, polysomnography, CPAP/NIV support, and advanced sleep investigations such as MSLT, actigraphy, and TcCO₂ monitoring.
• Support documentation development and implementation for procedures and equipment.
• Oversee routine calibration and maintenance of diagnostic equipment.
• Share accountability for stock control and inventory management.
• Act as a role model and mentor for junior staff, supporting training and team development.
• Collaborate with consultants, nurses, physiotherapists, engineers, and other stakeholders to enhance service delivery.
• Contribute to service growth and development aligned with hospital expansion.
• Maintain high clinical standards and patient-centred care across all procedures.
• Support governance, incident reporting, and quality assurance in line with hospital policies.

Key Skills / Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) in Clinical Physiology or equivalent specialist training.
• Minimum 2 years’ post-qualification experience in respiratory and diagnostics.
• Registration with RCCP, AHCS, or equivalent; ARTP membership or RPSGT certification desirable.
• Strong communication and analytical skills.
• Experience working with both adult and paediatric patients.
• Understanding of private healthcare service delivery.
• Teaching experience and a collaborative, growth-oriented mindset.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

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