Clinical Nurse Specialist Respiratory/Practitioner
Clinical Nurse Specialist Respiratory/Practitioner
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Job Overview
This exciting opportunity is based at Farnham Community Hospital, serving North-East Hampshire, Farnham, and Surrey Heath within Frimley Health. We are proud to expand our innovative and well-established Respiratory Services team with the launch of an Acute Respiratory Virtual Ward, supported by new funding.
Job Overview
This exciting opportunity is based at Farnham Community Hospital, serving North-East Hampshire, Farnham, and Surrey Heath within Frimley Health. We are proud to expand our innovative and well-established Respiratory Services team with the launch of an Acute Respiratory Virtual Ward, supported by new funding.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and knowledgeable Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist / Practitioner who is passionate about delivering and promoting excellent, evidence-based respiratory care. In this senior role, you will lead and support a multidisciplinary team, including nurses, physiotherapists, nursing associates, associate practitioners, physio technicians, and administrative staff. Together, you will provide high-quality care to patients with respiratory conditions, enabling them to receive treatment in their preferred place of care.
A special interest and expertise in COPD would be highly advantageous.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will provide specialist respiratory intervention, as well as supporting the multidisciplinary team in assessment and development of a holistic management plan.
You will be expected to perform assessment of respiratory patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, developing and delivering an individualised physiotherapy treatment programme based on this.
You will understand the assessment and management of multiple respiratory conditions and be aware of local and national guidelines for COPD, Bronchiectasis, Interstitial Lung Disease, Asthma and Oxygen.
We are looking for the best clinicians to join us in this demanding but enjoyable role which will provide a wide variety of experience and skills enhancing your professional portfolio. With dedicated support for your professional development in two organisations that received ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ on their recent CQC inspections there is every reason to join our expanding teams! We offer a comprehensive induction programme and actively support ongoing learning.
The role is designated to provide a cover for 7 day service.
The role is available in Frimley Health; based in Farnham Community Hospital covering North-East Hampshire and Farnham and Surrey Heath.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Registered Nurse – Part 1,2,12
* First degree in nursing, or demonstrable experience at this level
* Teaching / assessment programme
* Relevant specialist post basic programme in respiratory / experience or relevant community nursing qualification
Desirable criteria
* Diploma/ degree in respiratory care (COPD / Asthma) or willing to complete
Experience
Essential criteria
* Relevant substantial clinical experience in the same or related specialty OR recent clinical experience in acute or community settings
* Experience in managing the acutely unwell respiratory patient
* Previous experience in audit and evaluation
* Experience in acting as a clinical supervisor and mentor to others
Desirable criteria
* CBG / ABG interpretation
* Previous community nursing experience
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Demonstrates up to date knowledge and expertise in general nursing.
* Knowledge of key professional issues and NMC guidelines and codes, relating to professional practice
* Knowledge of the COPD and asthma outcomes strategy, NICE & BTS guidelines
* Able to work autonomously and within a team.
* Keyboard and word processing skills
* Demonstrates skilled written and verbal communication skills
Desirable criteria
* Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice
* Advanced clinical assessment skills
* Knowledge of blood gas interpretation
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
* Full driving licence and access to a car for use to travel across sites and perform domiciliary visits.
* Willing and able to work weekends and unsocial hours
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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