Job responsibilities
Meon Health Practice
Respiratory Specialist Nurse
Part Time: 16 hours per week
Pay: Depending on Experience
JOB SUMMARY:
To work with our multi-disciplinary clinical workforce as part of Meon Health Practice offering long term condition management, expert care, advice, support and education to patients with respiratory disease and focussing particularly on health improvement.
RESPONSIBLE TO: Lead Pharmacist
ACCOUNTABLE TO: Managing Director
KEY/MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Undertake respiratory assessments, spirometry, and reviews for patients with COPD, asthma, and other respiratory conditions.
Support diagnosis and management in line with current guidelines (e.g., NICE, GOLD).
Develop and implement personalised care plans
Advanced knowledge of the management of respiratory conditions
Acts as an expert practitioner providing clinical support and advice to healthcare professionals where necessary to assist them in the management of Asthma, COPD and other respiratory conditions
Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist programmes of care.
Act as a specialist resource for patient and their family providing care and support that is responsive to their needs in particular the effective management of their individual condition
Communicate difficult complex information to patients, families and carers.
To work collaboratively through effective communication with multi-professional teams to ensure practice is safe, efficient, effective and evidence based.
To act in an advisory capacity for all professionals across the patient pathway by offering specialist knowledge, skill and advice regarding the care and treatment of those with respiratory care needs.
Establish close liaison with other agencies, both statutory and voluntary.
To develop a comprehensive service that is flexible and innovative meeting the needs of the client group.
To apply standard principles of infection control to all activities at all times
Contributes to feedback of practice audit data and to the development of action plans to improve practice
Competent in undertaking and analysing Spirometry and FeNo testing
Skills
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Advanced skills in the assessment and management of patients with respiratory conditions
Competent in carrying out FeNo and spirometry testing
Excellent organisational skills
Ability to work and make clinical decisions as an autonomous practitioner
Ability to cope with and diffuse difficult and stressful situations.
IT skills
Primary care experience is desirable
Experience in managing long-term conditions in primary care preferred
Qualifications
Relevant Nursing degree
Masters level education is desirable
Clinical assessment skills
Additional qualification or training in respiratory care desirable
COMMUNICATION
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
DELIVERING A QUALITY SERVICE
Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patients consultations, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
Deliver care according to the NSF and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and evidence-based care
Assist in the formulation of the Practices strategy and policy
Manage and assess risk within the areas responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients
Undertake mandatory and statutory training
Apply infection control measures within the Practice according to local and national guidelines
ADMINISTRATIVE
To ensure accurate notes of all consultations in the patients computer notes
To ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice
Attend and participate in nurse meetings
Any other duties relevant to the role.
RESEARCH AND AUDIT
- Co-operate and participate as required in any research or audit in the practice
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development
- Contributing to strategic planning for the nursing team
- Developing nursing service (as individual and as part of team) in line with the Practice
- Developing, agreeing and reviewing protocols where appropriate
- Recognising and addressing own educational needs
- Effective communication with clinical colleagues
- Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future development
- Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
HEALTH AND SAFETY
- It is the responsibility of all employees to work with managers to achieve a healthy and safe environment, and to take reasonable care of themselves and others.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- It is the responsibility of all employees to support the Practices vision for sustainable development. To undertake their duties in a way that is not wasteful of environment, financial and social resources.
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
- It is the responsibility of all employees to support the organisations vision of promoting a positive approach to diversity and equality of opportunity, to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage in service delivery and employment, and to manage, support or comply through the implementation of Equality & Diversity Strategies and Policies.
REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974
- This post is subject to an exception order under the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This stipulates that all previous convictions, including those that are spent must be declared. Previous convictions will not necessarily preclude an individual from employment but must be declared in writing at the appropriate stage during the recruitment process.
INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
- As an employee you will have access to information that is sensitive to either an individual or to the Organisation and you are reminded that in accordance with the requirements of Information Governance, NHS Code of Confidentiality, Data Protection Act 1998 and also the terms and conditions in your contract of employment, you have a duty to process this information judiciously and lawfully; failure to do so may result in disciplinary action.
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- The Organisation is committed to providing a high-quality service through the effective management and development of its employees. The Performance Appraisal process ensures that The Organisation is able to achieve its key aims of delivering cost effective, high quality and responsive healthcare, whilst enabling employees to understand how the outcome of their contribution fits within these overall aims.
STATUTORY AND MANDATORY TRAINING
- The Organisation will assess the requirements for Statutory and Mandatory training for all new staff prior to commencement and aims to ensure that all Statutory and Mandatory training requirements are completed during the first 2 weeks of commencement.
