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Key Duties & Responsibilities: Support the Senior Sleep Physiology Team and Consultants in delivering an efficient service for CPAP patients including inpatients and outpatients, and their families. Undertake and document results of basic observations including blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, height and weight. Prepare, download and issue outpatient sleep studies to patients, such as overnight oximetry and cardiorespiratory sleep studies. Initiate patients on CPAP treatment within outpatient and inpatient settings, selecting the required equipment and adjust settings, in line with department protocols. Support the ongoing monitoring of non-complex patients on long-term CPAP therapy, by providing basic follow-up appointments and escalating complex scenarios to senior staff, in line with local protocols. Remotely monitor patients adherence and progress with CPAP therapy, resolving minor issues independently and escalating complex matters to the Lead Sleep Physiologist. Support the drop-in clinics and prepare equipment/supplies to be collected and delivered to patients. Assist the Senior Sleep Physiology team in Arterial and Capillary Blood Gas sampling, by taking the blood sample to the blood-gas analyser.