Respiratory Staff Nurse

Job summary

This advert is only open to applicants who are currently employed by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

CDDFT community services are offering an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse to join the team as a 9-month secondment opportunity covering maternity leave based in Bishop Auckland supporting patients living across Durham Dales, Sedgefield and Darlington suffering a variety of respiratory conditions including COPD, Emphysema, Asthma, Bronchiectasis and Pulmonary Fibrosis.

The post is part time, 24.5 hours a week. The service is open Monday-Friday 9am 5pm, hours can be negotiated and flexible over 3 or 4 days.

Main duties of the job

• Manage a caseload of patients suffering a respiratory condition as part of the wider team supported by Respiratory Specialist Nurses.
• Patient education supporting self-care and management including proactive exacerbation support, pulmonary rehabilitation and smoking cessation.
• Medication optimisation and inhaler technique.
• Patient triage
• Support patient support groups, lower band staff members plus students.
• Contribute to creating improvement, transformation and innovation within the service to promote best practice.
• Demonstrate effective time management skills.
• Commit to continuous personal development/lifelong learning by attending mandatory training, use of eLearning and adhere to all trust policies and procedures.
• To understand owns role within the wider multi-disciplinary team and articulate own developmental needs through attending clinical supervision, 1:1 sessions, undertaking appraisal preparation and contributing to objective setting and personal development planning.
• Promote service development, improvements and quality expansion and efficiencies.
• Support provision for a high quality, value for money and effective service.
• Effective use of IT systems to ensure accurate data recording.

About us

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

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Details

• Date posted: 20 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 5
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Per Annum Pro Rata
• Contract: Secondment
• Duration: 9 months
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: C9439-2627-700
• Job locations: Innovation House, Longfield Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 6XD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

• To co-manage a case load of complex respiratory patients, under direction of the community respiratory nursing team, across the community respiratory specialist service, within clinic and patients home environments, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.
• To undertake holistic patient respiratory assessment and review including social and psychological well-being and progress treatment interventions and adapt interventions, within set protocols, to progress treatment interventions and to meet the changing needs of the patient.
• Develop, implement and evaluate patient treatment plans.
• Communicate patient treatment plan changes to respiratory specialist nursing team.
• Understand basic respiratory anatomy and pathophysiology and the function and management of all respiratory conditions including mental well-being.
• Diagnostic spirometry performance qualification and registration either through The Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP) or at certified ARTP standard, is desirable but not essential as training will be provided.
• Perform capillary blood gas testing and oxygen reviews.
• Provide long term condition care following the COPD pathway.
• Accurately record clinical data and understand its significance including heart rate and rhythm, respiratory rate, pulse oximetry, peak flow rate, and blood pressure.
• Complete effective record keeping which demonstrates the decision-making process, care planned and given, as well as patient outcomes in accordance with trust policy and legal requirements.
• Understand the benefits of non-pharmacological interventions for respiratory illness/conditions including smoking cessation, weight management and nutrition, physical activity and brief cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
• Understand motivational skills and empathetic communication.
• Promote health and healthy informed choices.
• Review smoking status, provide very brief advice and refer to appropriate smoking service.
• Have knowledge of the benefits of exercise and pulmonary rehabilitation and refer to appropriate local rehabilitation programs.
• Review and train inhaler techniques to patients, carers and other health care professionals.
• Participate in service improvement and development initiatives.
• Have awareness, knowledge and implementation of safeguarding processes in relation to children, vulnerable patients and carers.
• Understand owns role within the wider multi-disciplinary team and articulate own developmental needs through attending clinical supervision, 1:1 sessions, undertaking appraisal preparation and contributing to objective setting and personal development planning.
• Have awareness of the importance of research, audit and quality improvement and participate in the monitoring of standards of care, and audit of nursing/therapy practice which is research based and supports the clinical governance framework.
• Be responsible for the safe physical environment including equipment.
• Participate in and contribute to all activities associated with the teams response to current trends and changes within the NHS.
• Adhere to trust clinical governance and equality and diversity policy through ethical decision-making.
• Promote and support effective implementation of all Organisational Policies and Procedures, and practice in accordance with.
• Support and promote a team culture which actively encourages empowerment thereby supporting and facilitating change.
• Support the provision of a high quality, value for money and effective service within available resource.
• Contribute to improving patient experience.
• Work collaboratively with the existing respiratory specialist teams.
• Possess good IT skills and use of systems.

Educational Responsibilities

• Provide and support training for the multidisciplinary team in the management of respiratory disease.
• To regularly attend and participate in training, peer support and clinical supervision.
• Support others to develop knowledge and skills.
• Promote learning/creation of learning environment.
• Service user/carer teaching.
• Support local patient groups, including hospice and the interstitial support group, providing education.
• Developing service user/carer education materials.
• Acts as a resource for improving health.

Research

• Involvement in any research and service development.
• Involvement in audit and service evaluation.
• Support the implementation of local policies
• Propose changes to working practices or procedures in own work area.