Respiratory Nurse Specialist

Job overview

This post is to support delivery of the Integrated Respiratory Service within Hillingdon borough. The appointee will join the existing multi-disciplinary respiratory team, and work in conjunction with the team members in coordinating and developing the service. The post holder will work collaboratively with healthcare professionals and stakeholders involved in the provision of integrated care, to ensure joined up care for patients across acute, community, primary and secondary care settings. A collaborative approach ensures a comprehensive patient centred service is provided.

Under the direction of the Band 7 Physiotherapist/Nurse, the post holder will ensure the smooth and efficient running of the Service, support hospital at home services, as well as providing specialist advice to both patients/carers and other teams within the hospital. There will also be opportunities to help support education and the upskilling of primary care in managing respiratory patients. The Hillingdon Integrated Respiratory Service is delivered in conjunction with Harefield Hospital who provide home oxygen assessment and review services (HOS-AR) and pulmonary rehabilitation. Experience in these components of the integrated service can be considered. The Hillingdon Integrated Respiratory Service has extended its scope of practice to provide Respiratory virtual wards.

Main duties of the job

• To plan, evaluate treatment and care for patients using the required

assessment tools, agreed pathways and clinical guidelines

• To assess patients on wards/departments for suitability for Early Supported Discharge
• To provide clinical assessment in patient’s homes, making management decisions with the support of Band 7/Integrated Respiratory Consultant when appropriate
• To participate in Integrated Care MDTs and case conferences.
• To support admission avoidance schemes currently operating within the department, whereby assessment of acutely unwell patients in a variety of settings including patient homes, General Practice, community sites and ambulatory/secondary care clinics is required.
• To provide support for the COPD HOT line for both patients and General Practitioners to provide knowledge/information and to advise on exacerbation management and suitability for admission avoidance/home assessment.
• To support the Covid Virtual Ward, providing virtual assessments and monitoring.
• To participate in audit and service development projects to assess service delivery and ensure best practice.
• To provide weekend working.
• To provide education and expert resource to practice nurses, the wider community multidisciplinary team, and general practitioners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.