Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Rehabilitation Clinician to join our Pulmonary, Heart Failure & Long Covid Rehabilitation team covering the Leicestershire County and Rutland area.
Applicants will hold registration with the NMC or HCPC and be motivated and enthusiastic with excellent communication skills.
Experience in respiratory/cardiac/long covid management of patients is important/desirable, along with in depth knowledge around COPD, Heart Failure and Long Covid. Support and training will be given to the successful applicant to upskill in this area if needed.
Experience of delivering Pulmonary/Cardiac/Long Covid Rehabilitation and/or community working is desirable.
The successful applicant will work within a multi-disciplinary team and be supported by a Band 7 Team Lead and Clinical Specialists.
The post is permanent either full or part time working. It will involve travel across the County to provide rehab in several locations and having a valid UK driving license and access to a vehicle is essential to fulfil the job role.
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Main duties of the job
To work autonomously taking responsibility for care, quality, and clinical activity for a designated caseload/team.
To contribute to care quality performance and clinical activity by providing professional nursing/AHP leadership and guidance, clinical advice, and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality:
1. Patient safety
2. The effectiveness of all health care interventions
3. Patient experience
4. The environment in which care is delivered
To participate in the effective clinical leadership and management of the team.
To actively contribute to the improvement of service and quality of care provision to meet the needs of patients, service users and their families.
To act as a role model, mentoring, teaching, assessing and supporting students and learners on placement and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff.
To work collaborate with other senior nurses/AHPs across LPT as appropriate and promote the role of their speciality nursing/AHP to all stakeholders.
To foster a culture of networking in an open and transparent approach with internal and external partnerships and between all stakeholders.
To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of evidenced based care to a group of patients according to changing healthcare needs and varying levels of complexity.
About us
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri
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