Band 5-6 Developmental Respiratory Nurse / Physiotherapist

Job overview

A vacant post for a band 6 Respiratory Nurse  or Respiratory Physiotherapist has arisen in North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) in the area of South West Essex within the Integrated Respiratory Team.

The Integrated Respiratory Team are and integrated service with Nursing staff, Specialist Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners,  Senior Physiotherapy Assistants and Administration staff.

As the service title suggests we are an integrated team covering many aspects of community respiratory care, services include, COPD Team, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Home Oxygen Service, Respiratory Virtual Ward and Breathlessness and Diagnostics service.

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium.  Please visit; https://www.capitalnurselondon.co.uk/how-to-apply/. Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly.  You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities: 1. Promoting effective self-management of patients and/or providing professional intervention for community management in order to present unnecessary hospital admissions, improve quality of life and to actively identify patients who would benefit from case management.

2. The post holder will make a contribution to both patient and professional education

3. The post holder will be expected to deliver a high level of respiratory care to COPD patients and other suitably identified respiratory conditions.

4. The post holder will be required to perform and/or interpret ABG and CBG results for oxygen therapy assessment and review

5. The post holder will be able to support/deliver the assessment and delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation after upskilling and/or provide sickness and holiday cover to this service.

6. The post holder will be expected to support the delivery of the Respiratory Virtual Ward (RVW) which supports Admission Avoidance and Early Supported Discharge pathways.   This service is 7 day service and staff will be expected to provide weekend cover and support with weekend working on a rostered basis.

7. To support Breathlessness and Diagnostics service by performing quality FeNo and ARTP accredited Spirometry.  This service is evolving and additional suitable pathways and reviews maybe made.

8. To participate in MDT, teaching, supervision of Junior staff and provide peer support.

9. Support and deliver the Trusts Values.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are a busy, fast paced team, within an ever changing landscape of Respiratory Care, forward thinking and innovative, we work closely with our local partners working towards consistent care across Mid and South Essex.

As an integrated service there will be in house training on all aspects of service and staff are expected to support all areas of service provision with the chance to upskill in nursing and therapy areas.

The post is Monday - Friday 9-5pm and Saturday - Sunday 9-3pm, this will be on a 4 week or suitable rota basis once all training and competency is signed off.

The successful candidate will be a Adults Nurse or Physiotherapist with at least 2 years experience at band 5 including Respiratory experience, including those with complex Respiratory presentation and those with multiple co-morbidities.

This post requires that you work flexibly across South West Essex and be able to travel to clinic locations across patch and also home visiting.

The area covered is Thurrock and Basildon, Brentwood, Wickford and Billericay.

Certain respiratory qualifications and courses are mandatory but this can be supported if the successful candidate does not have these currently but qualifies at interview.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Certificates of Sponsorship

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Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.