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Are you an experienced Band 7 Nurse or Physiotherapist looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy the excitement and challenge of the dynamic field and specialism of Respiratory?
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are looking to recruit to an exciting specialist respiratory position within the Adult Community Respiratory Team. This post will be primarily based in the direct diagnostic spirometry clinic pathway but with rotation into all other pathways of the wider respiratory service when required such as pulmonary rehabilitation, community respiratory clinics, and domiciliary admission prevention and assisted discharge support across Birmingham.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, innovative clinician who is interested in working within the Community Respiratory Team. You will need good clinical skills, a flexible approach; including excellent team working, communication, organisational and time management skills.
Work in accordance with NMC/HCPC Code of Professional Conduct.
Main Duties
* To coordinate team members to assist in the development of departmental initiatives.
* To work with the Service Manager to carry out workforce planning, continually develop all areas of the service, implement Improving Working Lives initiatives, support service business plan and Service Specification development, monitor service activity in all areas of work and implement local development plans in line with the Trust business plan.
* To participate in the management of all available resources to ensure an effective service that is consistent, accessible and relevant to patients' needs.
* To take an active role to promote and develop the use of evidence-based practice within the department.
* To promote all aspects of multi-disciplinary team working by liaising with other health and social care professionals within the primary and secondary care teams, voluntary and other local organisations.
* To manage a highly specialist adult caseload in a variety of clinic settings which will include assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning therapy programmes and discharge of patients.
* To deputise for the Service Manager when appropriate or as required.
* To develop and continually review and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment plans.
* The post is based in an inner-city multi-cultural area, and the post holder must ensure that the needs of ethnic minority and socially excluded groups are met where possible.
If you require any further info, please contact Hayley Williamson, Clinical Specialist Lead for Adult Respiratory Services at Hayley.Williamson2@nhs.net or Adam Sookia, Service Clinical Manager for Respiratory and Cardiac Services at Tel: 0121 466 3705 or email Adam.sookia@nhs.net.
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