Job summary
An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an experienced Respiratory Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary Respiratory Care Team across North West Surrey. To succeed in this post you will need experience of managing patients with chronic respiratory disease as a Band 7/6 in a health setting. You will have experience of working autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate must have good communication and organisational skills with a flexible approach to meet the ever-changing needs of the service.
As an autonomous practitioner you must be able to undertake a significant specialist clinical case load, taking a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with long-term respiratory conditions. These patients may have complex presentations.
Nurses are an integral part of this multi-disciplinary team. We support unplanned admission avoidance where appropriate, provide post discharge support, community clinics, home visits and are involved in Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Ambulatory Oxygen prescription, a home Non-Invasive ventilation service, research and other innovative schemes.
The team strives to ensure evidence based practice and provide an effective high quality service by setting standards and ensuring they are maintained.
We're offering an opportunity to build upon your specialist nursing respiratory knowledge and develop further skills in respiratory care.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for further details about the role.
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surrey’s largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe ‘High Cost Allowance’ of 5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are heard at Board level.
Click the link in the box CSH Surrey - A great place to work and read everything you need to know about joining our unique organisation and click the iWantGreatCare link to read our patient feedback.
If you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
Job description
Job responsibilities
· To communicate effectively with all disciplines
involved in a patient’s care both those within the organisation and those
outside to ensure effective multidisciplinary working
· To advise other disciplines both internally and
externally to ensure a multidisciplinary approach to care.
· To be able to communicate complex and sensitive information
to patients, carers and other staff including imparting unwelcome news relating
to their rehabilitation/recovery potential
· To be able to communicate highly complex information
sensitively to patients in order to gain cooperation for treatment and valid
consent.
· To use persuading and influencing skills to encourage
patients to self-manage their long term conditions
·
To
ensure timely and effective communication with the manager on all professional
matters.
·
To
attend relevant meetings and case conferences
as appropriate in order to ensure appropriate management and effective and
timely discharge of patients and coordination of care and care planning.
·
To
attend and chair meetings and actively participate ensuring understanding of
information imparted
·
To
appreciate cultural differences and take these into account when agreeing
treatment plans with patients.
· To initiate and maintain contacts with local and
national clinical interest groups appropriate to the clinical field and to
share and disseminate knowledge with colleagues working within the directorate
·
To
assess patients understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid consent and
have the capacity to work within the legal framework with patients who lack
capacity to consent.
·
To
use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate
effectively with patients in order to progress rehabilitation and treatment
programmes. This may include patients who will have difficulties in
understanding or communicating, e.g. patients who may be deaf, blind, or be
unable to accept diagnosis or presenting condition.
·
To
frequently manage highly stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an
empathetic manner
Job description
Job responsibilities
· To communicate effectively with all disciplines
involved in a patient’s care both those within the organisation and those
outside to ensure effective multidisciplinary working
· To advise other disciplines both internally and
externally to ensure a multidisciplinary approach to care.
· To be able to communicate complex and sensitive information
to patients, carers and other staff including imparting unwelcome news relating
to their rehabilitation/recovery potential
· To be able to communicate highly complex information
sensitively to patients in order to gain cooperation for treatment and valid
consent.
· To use persuading and influencing skills to encourage
patients to self-manage their long term conditions
·
To
ensure timely and effective communication with the manager on all professional
matters.
·
To
attend relevant meetings and case conferences
as appropriate in order to ensure appropriate management and effective and
timely discharge of patients and coordination of care and care planning.
·
To
attend and chair meetings and actively participate ensuring understanding of
information imparted
·
To
appreciate cultural differences and take these into account when agreeing
treatment plans with patients.
· To initiate and maintain contacts with local and
national clinical interest groups appropriate to the clinical field and to
share and disseminate knowledge with colleagues working within the directorate
·
To
assess patients understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid consent and
have the capacity to work within the legal framework with patients who lack
capacity to consent.
·
To
use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate
effectively with patients in order to progress rehabilitation and treatment
programmes. This may include patients who will have difficulties in
understanding or communicating, e.g. patients who may be deaf, blind, or be
unable to accept diagnosis or presenting condition.
·
To
frequently manage highly stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an
empathetic manner
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for further details about this role.
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/degree leading to inclusion on the NMC register.
- Evidence of relevant post registration training.
Desirable
- Appropriate training at MSc level or equivalent experiential development.
- Evidence of ongoing development.
- NMC registration.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for further details about this role.
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/degree leading to inclusion on the NMC register.
- Evidence of relevant post registration training.
Desirable
- Appropriate training at MSc level or equivalent experiential development.
- Evidence of ongoing development.
- NMC registration.
