Job summary
As the largest and leading specialist cardiothoracic hospital in the UK, Royal Papworth Hospital is dedicated to providing patients with the best possible care through the excellence of our caring staff.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is based on the world-class Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC).

The Sleep Laboratory is a major center for the provision of sleep medicine with a national referral base. It is one of the largest in the UK with a purpose-built 10 bed polysomnography unit and is allied with the CPAP hub, Respiratory Physiology and the Respiratory support unit. It provides a comprehensive sleep service including polysomnography with over 1,000 inpatient investigations per year, outpatient actigraphy and respiratory polygraphy assessments and an active research programme.

You will be involved in the day to day running of sleep assessments, setting up monitoring equipment, troubleshooting problems overnight and during the daytime testing. The post holder will be responsible for the analysis, interpretation and reporting of full polysomnogram and all other sleep assessment. Where required you may be starting patients on CPAP therapy and performing some respiratory physiology testing such as spirometry within the Sleep Laboratory and the Respiratory Physiology department.

Main duties of the job
The post holder in this role will primarily work in the Sleep Laboratory, but where required, across all departments to provide high quality, patient focused and efficient Sleep Science, Respiratory Physiology, and CPAP services within Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust.

The key duties of the role revolve around providing and developing the services:

• Perform, lead, analyse and interpret basic and advanced sleep assessments including full polysomnography, actigraphy and pulmonary function tests.
• Initiate CPAP therapy and troubleshoot patient problems
• Critically appraise, monitor and review current services to ensure policies and procedures are complete, up-to-date and evidence-based.
• Identify areas for improvement or development and produce evidence-based proposals.
• Promote and facilitate links between the 3 departments to improve patient pathway, efficiency and communication.
• Take an active role in education within the departments including healthcare scientist and/or other professional discipline training and assessment.
• Take an active role in research and audit from concept to presentation and outcome with a supporting role in other department research.

About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Details
Date posted: 06 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 175-2627-TH1942
Job locations: Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• BSc (Hons) In Clinical Physiology (Respiratory and sleep) or equivalent
• ARTP Practitioner (or equivalent experience
• Mentorship training or experience
• Appropriate professional registration

Desirable

• ARTP Practitioner Qualification or equivalent
• ARTP CPAP qualification
• A-STEP
• ESRS Expert Somnologist Technologist Qualification
• RPSGT
• Registration with RCCP, ACHS or HCPC.

Experience
Essential

• Ability to perform a wide range of pulmonary function tests and sleep assessments
• Ability to set up, troubleshoot and critically review CPAP therapy.
• Ability to analyse information
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of working within respiratory physiology, CPAP and sleep science
• Experience of delivering formal or informal teaching
• Experience of leading projects
• Ability to communicate complex or sensitive information to colleagues, patients and relatives
• Ability to prioritise own workload in relation to the priorities of the department
• Ability to pay close attention to detail in verbal, written and electronic communication.
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure a high quality service
• Ability to work on own initiative

Desirable

• Experience of working as a clinical respiratory and sleep physiologist
• Experience of noxturnal, visi-download, Sentrysuite and dominolite.
• Experience of RESMED, SEFAM and Lowenstein CPAP devices.
• Experience of airview.

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Evidence ability to uphold the Trust's values Compassion Excellence Collaboration.
• Ability to undertake manual handling tasks
• Ability to deal with sensitive information in a professional manner
• Ability to concentrate for periods of time whilst testing patients and inputting data into a computer
• Ability to travel to other sites if required

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details
Employer name: Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Hiring Manager
Jack Woolcomb
jack.woolcomb@nhs.net
01223638168