Main area: Respiratory
Grade Band: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (2x 9-6, 2x 9-8)
Job ref: 287-AMED-303-24
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree House, Aintree University Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/01/2025 23:59
Respiratory Nurse Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
Liverpool Community Respiratory Team hosts The Acute Respiratory Infections Virtual Ward. We provide hospital admission avoidance and early supported discharge for patients with exacerbation COPD, Bronchiectasis, community-acquired pneumonia, and viral lower respiratory tract infections, along with nurse-led respiratory optimisation in patients' homes and clinic settings.
Medical leadership is supplemented by a respiratory Consultant working in the service. There are also 2 Advanced Clinical Practitioners who provide clinical support. The team includes a team leader, B6 and B7 specialist nurses, physiotherapists, an assistant practitioner, and admin support.
The role involves assessing patients in two local hospitals for suitability for early supported discharge and continued daily case management during their exacerbation in the community setting. You will need excellent communication skills and demonstrate your ability to make clinical decisions autonomously at pace. A willingness to undertake clinical audit and research, and to understand local and national issues related to respiratory disease to optimise management is essential.
Given the community-wide nature of this role, a high degree of mobility is required. The role involves working across various locations, with shifts covering 8am-8pm, 7 days per week.
Main duties of the job
1. Clinical decision-making is required for this post; therefore, sound theoretical and practical knowledge relating to this specialty is required from a practitioner who strives to maintain clinical excellence.
2. Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence-based clinical decision-making within the hospital setting and patients' homes.
3. Provide clinical respiratory expertise and knowledge to others when managing continuing and highly complex situations.
4. Assess patient conditions and consider a range of options when delivering continuing and highly complex care, drawing on external specialist services as required.
5. Undertake chronic disease management reviews of the housebound patient/client, where appropriate.
6. Provide support in managing patients/clients with chronic diseases.
7. Following holistic assessment of need, develop individualised care plans with the involvement of patients and carers.
8. Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
9. Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease-specific management, management of long-term conditions, and end of life.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, and Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Assess, plan, and implement care of acute respiratory patients (COPD, bronchiectasis, community-acquired pneumonia, viral lower respiratory tract infections) facilitating supported hospital discharge.
2. Provide care and optimisation of patients living with respiratory conditions including promotion of patient self-management.
3. Work within the setup of a new Virtual ward environment, supporting patients and colleagues in service development.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Professional.
* Teaching/mentorship qualification or equivalent work-based experience.
* V300 Prescriber, if required for the post.
Experience
* Demonstrable post-registration/qualification experience.
* Experience of successful multi-agency working.
* Demonstrable experience in relevant area of practice or equivalent.
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses.
* Management and clinical leadership experience.
Knowledge
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care.
* Understanding of partnership working.
* Understanding of the principles of care management.
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with the organisational public health policy.
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers, and colleagues.
Skills
* Excellent communication, organisational, and interpersonal skills.
* Self-management and motivation skills.
* IT literate.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieving fair, equitable, and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce.
The Trust has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisation's safeguarding policy.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process, please contact a member of the Recruitment Services.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Paul Tinnion
Job title: Clinical Team Leader
Email address: Paul.tinnion@liverpoolft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01515292209
For more detailed information or to request a pre-interview visit, contact Paul Tinnion.
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