PFT Technician at Bricklane Consulting Limited

Bricklane Consulting - Our client in the Health sector is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: PFT Technician

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Evaluates patient hemodynamic, electrocardiographic, and symptomatic response to exercise, and assesses appropriateness of responses as they relate to exercise intensity and endurance.
• Follow precautions to ensure patient safety.
• Meets and complies with departmental standards regarding the use of all department supplies and equipment.
• Completes billing records within departmental standards.
• Consults with physicians and health care team in order to recommend appropriate testing procedures to provide results that will assist the physician with the treatment of the patient’s respiratory disease/diagnosis.
• Identifies impending changes in patient’s condition and takes appropriate action.
• Utilizes information generated from both computerized and paper systems that support functions such as medical records and pulmonary databases.
• Participates in quality assurance / quality improvement activities.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Thorough understanding and ability to apply all equipment used in pulmonary function testing and cardiac monitoring. This includes, but is not limited to, the following: spirometry / flow volume loops, gas dilution lung volumes, CO diffusing capacity, plethysmographic lung volumes, arterial blood gas acquisition and analysis, maximum voluntary ventilation, 6 minute walk test, pulse oximetry, cardio-pulmonary exercise tests, methacholine challenge and any appropriate equipment used to diagnosis pulmonary diseases.
• Strong working knowledge of infectious disease, cross contamination, and pathophysiology.
• Ability to provide care to the population served.
• Ability to interpret basic ECG rhythm.
• Demonstrated human relations and effective communications skills.
• Possesses knowledge of pulmonary anatomy and physiology.
• Knowledge of equipment and techniques used in respiratory/pulmonary care for age specific populations.
• Aptitude to be trained and the knowledge to operate all equipment used in pulmonary function testing, as well as equipment that may be used as a cardiac technician.
• Competency in the ability to analyze and interpret measured data and communicate the results to the physician and health care team members.

Application Closing Date
27th September, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: bricklanerecruitment@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.