Respiratory Clinic Nurse (Out-patient based)

Job overview

• We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified Nurse, with respiratory experience to join our evolving multidisciplinary respiratory team, in order to deliver outstanding respiratory care to our patients in  setting of outpatient clinics.
• We are looking for a nurse to provide respiratory nursing care, from the point of diagnosis and beyond, promoting best practice across our services.
• This is a particularly exciting time to join the team here at SGH as we develop and reshape current services to meet need, including expanding our current working with partners internally and externally.
• We are a forward thinking department and embrace both service and individual professional development, including support for formal qualifications and attending/presenting research at national/international respiratory conferences.
• What ever your previous background, whether tertiary, secondary, primary community care, or independent sector, if this post is of interest to you, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• To support respiratory assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care for a range of patients with diagnosed and undiagnosed respiratory disease, largely in the stable disease state.
• There may also be the opportunity for secondments working in the respiratory ward.
• To build relationships with patients and their carer’s, supporting them to make informed health care decisions that improve their overall health outcomes.
• To be a part of service reform and development.
• To ensure the smooth running of the chest clinic outpatient department and providing management and supervision to the team.
• This requires working with a number of partners including patients and carers, Respiratory and Infectious Diseases consultants, Respiratory, Pleural and Tuberculosis (TB) nurses, GPs, community MDT teams and other partners such as Oxygen providers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the  Job Description and the personal specification for a more detailed aspect of the role.