Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
19 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- CIRCUMSTANCES
Full Driving License
- CIRCUMSTANCES
Car Driver and access to a car
- Personal Attributes
Ability to empathise with patients
- Personal Attributes
Compassionate and caring.
- Personal Attributes
Ability to use initiative.
- Personal Attributes
Positive and optimistic.
- Skills and Aptitudes
Literate and numerate. • Ability to provide high quality patient care. • Effective oral/written communication and interpersonal skills. • Ability to work alone • Able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team. • Able to understand and accurately follow instructions. • Able to work in a busy and demanding team. • Ability to organise and prioritise own work delegated by the team • Able to recognise when to seek advice.
- Skills and Aptitudes
Ability to provide high quality patient care
- Skills and Aptitudes
Effective oral/written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Skills and Aptitudes
Ability to work alone
- Skills and Aptitudes
Able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Skills and Aptitudes
Able to understand and accurately follow instructions.
- Skills and Aptitudes
Able to work in a busy and demanding team.
- Skills and Aptitudes
Able to recognise when to seek advice.
- Skills and Aptitudes
Ability to organise and prioritise own work delegated by the team
- Qualifications and Education
Nurse Associate or previous demonstrable experience
- Qualifications and Education
Basic Computer Skills
- Work related knowledge and experience
Understanding of confidentiality and implications of non-compliance.
- Work related knowledge and experience
Knowledge of health and safety issues in own work environment.
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills and Aptitudes
Previous experience of working without direct supervision.
- Skills and Aptitudes
Ability to delegate and support more junior staff
- Skills and Aptitudes
Knowledge of SystmOne
- Qualifications and Education
Computer literacy
- Qualifications and Education
Community experience
- Qualifications and Education
ARTP Performing Certification
- Work related knowledge and experience
Previous experience of lone working
- Work related knowledge and experience
Experience of spirometry
Job overview
The Respiratory team is expanding and looking for a band 4 Associate Practitioner or nursing associate to join our team. We are looking for someone to assist the team in the service delivery and management of patients with Respiratory conditions within the Mid Essex area, by providing high quality evidence-based care to meet the health and social care needs of the population. You will work across the service, undertaking spirometry as part of the diagnostic service, running pulmonary rehabilitation classes, working with the oxygen team taking capillary blood gases and assisting with virtual respiratory ward.
Training will be provided and this will include the opportunity to achieve ARTP certification in performing spirometry.
Main duties of the job
The aim of the team is to provide comprehensive respiratory care to patients in the Mid Essex community with long term Respiratory conditions.
The purpose of the role is to support the Respiratory team to ensure that effective, sympathetic and individualised pathways of patient care.
The successful candidate will be involved in completing Spirometry , Pulmonary rehabilitation, Oxygen assessments and assisting with the virtual respiratory ward.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for a detailed list of the main responsibilities for this role. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.
Applicant requirements
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.
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This advert is for Respiratory Associate Practitioner with Provide CIC in Braintree, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Assistant practitioner role. The advertised salary is £28,392 - £31,157 pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 16 Sep 2026.
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