# Community Respiratory Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Kendal
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse (community and district)
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 Dependant on experience
- **Contract type:** This is a permanent post within the Trust
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, 37.5 hours per week (Travel across the Baywide area and between bases at Barrow, Kendal and Lancaster will be required)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-23T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09T07:33:23.215Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cumbria/Kendal/University_Hospitals_Morecambe_Bay_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Respiratory_Nurse/Community_Respiratory_Nurse-v7958052
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7958052?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Community Respiratory Service in conjunction with the Morecambe Bay Respiratory Network are looking to recruit to permanent a Community Respiratory Nurse (Band 6) post. The post will cover pulmonary rehabilitation assessments and classes, as well as provide Respiratory Specialist Nursing care in the home setting, for those with severe, chronic, respiratory disease.

This role offers you a permanent contract with our Trust (UHMBT) and the Community Respiratory Service.

As a Band 6 Respiratory Nurse, you will have previous experience working in respiratory (in General Practice, community services or hospital) and demonstrable post-graduate CPD relevant to the role.

So, if you are a nurse with a passion for respiratory care and want to help us to improve the lives of people living with respiratory disease across Morecambe Bay - then this role could be for you! Please get in touch to find out more about our team and this role.

### Main duties of the job

To provide thorough holistic assessments, clinical examination and co-ordination and delivery of specialist clinical care interventions to patients, to support the management of respiratory symptoms and chronic respiratory disease.

To be actively involved in your own respiratory CPD, engage in role-specific training and competency frameworks, and support students, colleagues , patients and families to learn how to better managed chronic respiratory disease.

To work closely with the CRT/MBRN teams and wider MDT to improve the management and early diagnosis of respiratory disease across Morecambe Bay.

To work closely with the CRT/MBRN team members to measure, audit and evaluate the effectiveness and impact of the pulmonary rehabilitation and domiciliary nursing service, at the patient and service level, engaging in a cycle of continuous service improvement.

To work closely with system partners to embed the delivery of CORE+20 and local population health agendas into our Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme.

Please see the job description for further details

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/

## Person Specification

### E/D

**Essential**

- Professional Nursing Registration (NMC Adult RN1)
- Evidence of relevant post-graduation CPD
- Demonstrates interest in this specific post
- Post-graduate nursing experience relevant to this post
- Car Owner/driver

**Desirable**

- Previous experience working within a community setting
- Previous experience working within respiratory care

## Documents

- [people strategy (pdf, 109.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2942)
- [lgbt network leaflet (pdf, 226.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1741)
- [community respiratory nurse job description (pdf, 169.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10238971)
- [community respiratory nurse personal specification (pdf, 136.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10238972)

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