Job summary
An
exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an experienced Respiratory
Care Practitioner (Nursing/AHP), to join our multi-disciplinary Respiratory Care Team
across North West Surrey.
This is a fixed term opportunity with potential to extend. To succeed in this post you will need experience of
managing patients with chronic respiratory disease as a Band 7 or Band 6
Practitioner 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.
This role is integral to the multi-disciplinary team and supports: unplanned admission avoidance
where appropriate; post discharge support; community clinics; home
visits and is 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
to provide an effective
high quality service by setting standards and ensuring they are monitored and maintained.
We are offering
an opportunity to build upon your specialist respiratory knowledge
and develop further skills in the area of respiratory care.
UK
Visa and Immigration Sponsorship: Please note that we do not offer UKVI
sponsorship for these posts, and so all applicants require a current right to
work in the UK.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Respiratory Practitioner is
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 conditions. These patients may
have complex presentations.
To take a
lead role in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Respiratory Care Team on a day to day basis.
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys 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.
CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused
individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
We welcome candidates from
all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for
and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named
individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the relevant professional job description and specification attached for full details
Principal
duties to include:
To communicate effectively with all disciplines
involved in a patients 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 conditions
To
ensure timely and effective communication with the line 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/recovery 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
Please see the relevant professional job description and specification attached for full details
Principal
duties to include:
To communicate effectively with all disciplines
involved in a patients 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 conditions
To
ensure timely and effective communication with the line 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/recovery 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
Skills
Essential
- Post registration experience across a variety of clinical areas to include musculoskeletal and respiratory patients
- Experience of working at band 6 level in rehabilitation of patients with long term conditions
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and contributing to team decisions
- Experience and understanding of treatment approaches
- Experience of use of audit and its use to improve interventions/service
- Experience of managing own and team caseload and prioritising
- Experience of delegating to junior staff
- Experience of teaching other members of the team
- Experience of assessing clinical ability of staff and support personal development
- Involvement in appraisal system
- Demonstrate knowledge of clinical governance agenda
- Current UK driving licence and use of car
Experience
Essential
- Ability to carry out highly advanced range of assessments and procedures in order to make a clinical diagnosis, treatment and management plan.
- Use and understanding of a range of treatment approaches
- Evidence of highly specialised skills for clinical practice based on evidence
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills in deciding certain interventions
- Ability to identify and set clinical with patient /carer
- Knowledge of clinical governance agenda
- Knowledge of relevant clinical guidelines and NHS directives
- Ability to lead on changes in practices
- Computer literate
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- Understanding on how to maintain a safe environment and facilitate others to do so
- Ability to identify own training needs
- Ability to solve complex problems
- Ability to work positively in new and changing environment
Desirable
- Experience of working within the community
- Non-medical prescribing or desire to undertake
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/degree leading to inclusion on the relevant professional register
- Evidence of relevant post registration training
Desirable
- Appropriate training at MSc level or equivalent experiential development
- Evidence of ongoing development
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Post registration experience across a variety of clinical areas to include musculoskeletal and respiratory patients
- Experience of working at band 6 level in rehabilitation of patients with long term conditions
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and contributing to team decisions
- Experience and understanding of treatment approaches
- Experience of use of audit and its use to improve interventions/service
- Experience of managing own and team caseload and prioritising
- Experience of delegating to junior staff
- Experience of teaching other members of the team
- Experience of assessing clinical ability of staff and support personal development
- Involvement in appraisal system
- Demonstrate knowledge of clinical governance agenda
- Current UK driving licence and use of car
Experience
Essential
- Ability to carry out highly advanced range of assessments and procedures in order to make a clinical diagnosis, treatment and management plan.
- Use and understanding of a range of treatment approaches
- Evidence of highly specialised skills for clinical practice based on evidence
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills in deciding certain interventions
- Ability to identify and set clinical with patient /carer
- Knowledge of clinical governance agenda
- Knowledge of relevant clinical guidelines and NHS directives
- Ability to lead on changes in practices
- Computer literate
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- Understanding on how to maintain a safe environment and facilitate others to do so
- Ability to identify own training needs
- Ability to solve complex problems
- Ability to work positively in new and changing environment
Desirable
- Experience of working within the community
- Non-medical prescribing or desire to undertake
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/degree leading to inclusion on the relevant professional register
- Evidence of relevant post registration training
Desirable
- Appropriate training at MSc level or equivalent experiential development
- Evidence of ongoing development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
