Main area: Respiratory Specialist Nurse
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent, 5 days working Monday - Friday
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Per annum, Pro-rata)
Job ref: 236-BCO-NM629-24
Employer: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Ramsbottom Medical Practice
Town: Bury
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/09/2024 23:59
Respiratory Specialist Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
Are you looking for a nursing role that gives you the opportunity to broaden your knowledge and skills in Respiratory Medicine?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Respiratory Specialist Nurse to work within the Bury Lung Service as part of the wider Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.
We are seeking a registered professional with appropriate experience in respiratory care who can demonstrate commitment, enthusiasm, and drive to develop clinical experience and teamwork skills.
You must be able to communicate effectively at all levels, work autonomously, and demonstrate effective teamwork. You will provide high-quality care in an appropriate and timely manner, responsive to patient needs while adhering to recognised policies and guidelines.
The service operates Monday - Friday and covers the following clinical areas:
* Home visits
* Pulmonary Rehabilitation / long covid rehabilitation
* Community clinics
* Education and Teaching for the wider Bury community workforce
Access to transport is essential to fulfill community role.
Main duties of the job
To work autonomously but with support from the Bury Lung Service clinical team in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care for patients with COPD/Respiratory disease within the community. Delivering an education package to patients, carers, and Primary care colleagues.
You will be supported through regular team meetings, 1-1 sessions, ongoing education with access to a professional team of nurses, AHPs, and consultants to provide mentorship and support.
Other main duties include:
* Work with other members of the respiratory team to assess, plan, and implement care maintaining appropriate documentation.
* Deliver a full range of Nursing and psycho-social Care to patients with COPD/respiratory conditions both physical and psychological.
* Provide palliative Care and End of Life Care for respiratory patients.
* Contribute to the delivery of and promotion of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme.
* Deliver an educational package to patients, families, carers, and significant others.
* Carry out specialist assessments of COPD/respiratory patients in both acute and non-acute scenarios.
* Organise and triage referrals received into the service.
* Promote self-management of patients to enable them to feel empowered to manage their chronic respiratory condition.
* Develop working relationships and work closely with the wider Primary Care colleagues.
* Optimise patient care through collaborative MDT working and appropriate onward referral.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust, we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners.
We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate, and inspire – to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us, you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities, and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities, please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as a Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post, you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
Person specification
Registration
Essential Qualifications
* Registration with the NMC
* COPD module
* NMP V300
* Clinical skills
Experience
* Management and knowledge of COPD/Respiratory patients
* Responsible for an area of care including assessment, planning, and implementation of care
* Clinical experience in primary/community care
* Spirometry interpretation
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible, and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. Our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.
In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.
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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: Michelle Barnes
Job title: Bury Lung Service Team Lead
Email address: michelle.barnes@nca.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 206 3502
Additional information: Available Mon-Thurs 0800-1730 for contact or informal visits.
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