Community Respiratory Specialist Nurse

Job overview

Care closer to home is becoming integral to the future of the NHS and the Community Health Services Division of Notts HC are at the forefront of this exciting journey. Working with our system partners in creating collaborative ways to improve physical health care services, activities and interventions in local communities, which meet the needs of our patients in the places they call home.

The Division operates under 3 Units of Management providing an extensive portfolio of children's, adults and specialist services, covering a vast geographical area. We offer various clinical and non clinical roles, working within supportive teams that encourage us all to work to the best of our abilities to provide the highest quality care.

Being Part of an organisation as diverse as Nottshc provides you with great career development opportunities, to be innovative and gives you permission to grow both professionally and really make a difference.

The role includes development of GP practice staff to enable confident respiratory medication optimisation.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will:

Be pro-active in delivering respiratory specialist nursing care that is anticipatory and responsive to patient's needs in their own home and in a clinic environment. By promoting independence, health lifestyle, reduction in health inequalities to improve the overall quality of life in the local population to reduce avoidable hospital admissions. this role will require working closely with General Practice staff and respiratory consultants.

Offer a comprehensive nursing / therapy service to the resident population of Mid Notts providing a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approach to maximise patient function, well-being and self-care planning.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for a new challenge?

We have one full time Band 7 Respiratory Specialist Nurses post available to work within our existing service alongside our general practice, and acute secondary care trust, voluntary sector and primary care. The role will include identifying patients who have and who have not yet been diagnosed with a respiratory condition to be assessed, discussed and diagnosed with a respiratory diagnosis. possible/immediately.

Are you a registered Nurse Passionate about providing care for patients with chronic Respiratory conditions Are you looking for an opportunity to be part of a very supportive, dynamic and forward thinking team? Are you looking for the opportunity to contribute to the future service development of a specialist Community Cardio Respiratory Team?

If so we'd love to hear from you!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 1 full time Respiratory Nurse Specialist to join our excellent Community Cardio Respiratory Team in Mid Notts, helping to support caseload management of patients with Chronic Respiratory Conditions.

The team are based at Ashfield Health Village, Rainworth Primary Care Centre, Newark Health Centre and will cover the Mansfield and Sherwood localities. The role will include team working within the Integrated Neighbourhood Team working towards identifying patients not yet diagnosed with a respiratory condition to ensure they receive care and treatment for their long term lung conditions. The Cardiorespiratory team is made up of specialist Nurse and AHPs within the Community Respiratory Service, Community Home Oxygen Service, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Heart Failure Services.

You will be expected to identify, manage and discuss a cohort of patients with undiagnosed and diagnosed long term lung conditions, providing care plans as appropriate, working closely with members of the Cardio Respiratory Team and the wider MDT- including our acute colleagues, GPs, voluntary sector and other health professionals in order to maximise patients quality of life and encouraging self management. This care takes place within community clinic settings and patients own homes /usual place of residence. a Non medical prescribing qualification (V300) is essential for the role.

We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and flexible individual who are able to adapt to the changing demands and workload.

The service is a 5 day service operating from 8.00-5.00pm, due to the nature of this role, it is essential that you are able to travel independently across the county.

A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.