Employer South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The James Cook University Hospital Town Middlesbrough Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/05/2025 23:59
Respiratory Sleep Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
Exciting opportunity to join the Respiratory Sleep Medicine Service at South Tees.
We are looking for a skilled professional to join an innovative team in delivering excellent care to patients requiring Non Invasive Ventilation with CPAP/BiPAP.
The candidate will be a registered nurse or physiologist with an interest in Respiratory Sleep Medicine
This post is a specialist practitioner working as part of a multidisciplinary team in Respiratory Sleep Medicine.
The post holder will maintain and actively contribute to the delivery of excellent patient care to our service users.
The post holder will contribute to the further growth and development of Respiratory Sleep services to improve the quality of care for service users.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work autonomously; clinically assessing new patients across inpatient and outpatient areas, in order to initiate new patients onto Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy or Bilevel positive airway pressure (Bipap) utilising local protocols, evidenced based clinical criteria, and national guidelines.
The post holder will provide review clinics; analysing remote monitoring systems for all patient groups including some complex patients referred from specialist areas i.e. Bariatric services, adapting treatment regimens/prescriptions as appropriate to optimise therapy usage, whilst promoting self-care management with advice to ensure efficient and effective service provision through support and symptom recognition. Following discussion with senior staff and medics the post holder will refer for further related diagnostic procedures, intervention in treatment pathways or discharge from treatment.
The post holder will have a good knowledge and understanding of a range of respiratory conditions and services to support or signpost other HCPs effectively providing a specialist service for patients with OSA and other conditions requiring Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, Non-Invasive Ventilation and where appropriate Adaptive-servo Ventilation. Prior knowledge and experience of Non-Invasive Ventilation and Adaptive-servo Ventilation is desirable.
The post holder will deliver this role across Hospital Tees sites as required.
Working for our organisation
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our staff in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions.
· Your Leadership Impact
· Leading Your Team to Success
· Service Improvement for Beginners
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
· Explore leadership within the NHS
· Promote Trust values and behaviours
· Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
· Equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these three and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Please note this post may close at sufficient applicants.
Person specification
Knowledge
* Have knowledge of non invasive ventilation therapies and the related medical conditions
Experience
* Have significant experience in a nursing or science based clinical area.
* Be able to indicate ongoing professional development and up to date clinical practice in the fields of respiratory and/or sleep physiology.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse or ARTP registered physiologist (Respiratory or Sleep)
* Qualified to BSc in an appropriate field relevant to the area of specialism.
Disclosure and Barring Checks (DBS)
It is now the policy of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost of their DBS. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. We welcome applications from the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network; LGBT+ Network; Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions Network, Faith Network, Childless not by Choice Network and the Menopause Support Group.
As an inclusive employer,we are here to support you.
The Trust encourages and supports all applicants to be fully vaccinated against both COVID19 and influenza.
Please be aware, there are occasions where some vacancies may close prior to the closing date advertised. This will only happen where sufficient applications are received AND will be made evident on the job advert.
Please note if you are successfully shortlisted, we will contact you via the email address that you have applied from so please ensure you check your emails regularly.
Existing employees of South Tees NHS Foundation Trust currently on the Redeployment Register, who meet the essential criteria for this post, will be shortlisted and interviewed prior to all other applicants.
IMPORTANT-Please ensure you read the 'Guidance Notes for Applicants' document attached to this advert before you start to complete your application form.
This document provides detailed advice regarding the completion of your application form.
The guidance document also provides in detail what identification and certificates you must provide at interview should you be shortlisted.
As part of our pre-employment screening process, all applicants are required to provide references from their last continuous 3 year employment and/or training/education. The refereesMUSTbe a Line Manager/Supervisor. Applicants are requested to ensure email addresses for all referees are included on their application form. Personal references and references from colleagues are not acceptable.
Unfortunately we are unable to respond to all applicants and those who are not contacted within six weeks of the closing date should assume that their application has been unsuccessful.
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.
Application numbers
Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.
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