Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Respiratory)

Job overview

The Morecambe Bay Respiratory Network in conjunction with the Community Respiratory Service, and a role aligned with the Community Respiratory Service until 31st March 2026. Further funding for us to continue these Respiratory services beyond April 2026, will be dependent on the success of this trial period have secured funding until April 2026, to trial a number of new services across Morecambe Bay, including (but not limited to)  integrated MDT clinical pathways for chronic respiratory disease management, additional localised pulmonary rehabilitation programs, and specialist home rehabilitation and support, for people with respiratory disease living with high symptom burden who are at high risk of deterioration and urgent care use.

Main duties of the job

To work at the level outlined in the HEE Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice (2017) with equal focus on all four pillars of advanced clinical practice: Clinical, Leadership/management, education, and research/audit

Provide expert practice, exercising a high degree of specialist professional judgement supporting the patient journey.

To provide thorough, holistic assessments, clinical examination and co-ordination and delivery of specialist clinical care interventions to patients, to support the management of respiratory symptoms and chronic respiratory disease.

To work closely with the MBRN teams and wider MDT to improve the management and early diagnosis of respiratory disease across Morecambe Bay.

To work closely with the MBRN support staff and other members of the ‘high risk’ service to measure, audit and evaluate the effectiveness and impact of the service, at the patient and system level, engaging in a cycle of continuous service improvement.

To work closely with system partners to embed the delivery of CORE+20 and local population health agendas into these MBRN pathways and services

To provide clinical leadership, supervision and training to the MBRN and wider MDT to support an overall improvement in Chronic Respiratory Disease management across Morecambe Bay.

Please see job description for further details

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. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/