Liverpool Community Respiratory Team hosts The Acute Respiratory Infections Virtual Ward. We provide hospital admission avoidance and early supported discharge for patients with exacerbations of 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 consists of a team leader, B6 and B7 specialist nurses, physiotherapists, an assistant practitioner, and admin support.
The role will involve the assessment of patients in two local hospitals for the suitability of providing early supported discharge and the continued daily case management during their exacerbation in the community setting.
You will need excellent communication skills and will be able to demonstrate your ability to make clinical decisions autonomously at pace. A willingness to undertake clinical audit and research, and to gain an understanding of local and national issues relating to respiratory disease, in order to optimise the management of this group of patients 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 8 am - 8 pm, 7 days per week.
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.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence-based clinical decision-making within the hospital setting and patients' homes.
2. Provide clinical respiratory expertise and knowledge to others when managing continuing and highly complex situations.
3. Assess patient conditions and consider a range of options when delivering continuing and highly complex care, drawing on external specialist services as required.
4. Undertake chronic disease management reviews of the housebound patient/client, where appropriate.
5. Provide support in managing patients/clients with chronic diseases.
6. Following a holistic assessment of need, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients and carers.
7. Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
8. 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 care.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & 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.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic, and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single-site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Assess, plan, and implement care of acute respiratory patients (COPD/Bronchiectasis, community-acquired pneumonia, viral lower respiratory tract infections) facilitating supported hospital discharge.
Provide care and optimisation of patients living with respiratory conditions, including promotion of patient self-management.
Work within the setup of a new Virtual Ward environment, supporting patients and colleagues in service development.
Please note the job description is generic, and some features may be different.
This advert closes on Friday, 10 Jan 2025.
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