Respiratory Nurse Specialist

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. IT consists of Barts Hospital, The Royal London and Mile End Hospitals, Newham and Whipps Cross Hospitals.

Applications are invited for a Clinical Nurse Specialist Respiratory - Band 6 nurse to join our multi-disciplinary, integrated and award-winning team of respiratory nurses and physiotherapist called Adult Respiratory Care and Rehabilitation (ARCARE). Working fulltime in our different services at Royal London Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Mile End Hospital. This is an excellent development opportunity for an existing Band 6 to specialist in respiratory or a Band 5 with respiratory nursing experience to develop into a Band 6 for six months.

The post holder will work closely with respiratory teams, across sites (occasional cross site cover may be required). This is an exciting role that supports an integrated approach in supporting respiratory patients across the various patient pathways including in-patient reviews, diagnostic (spirometry) and follow-up asthma /COPD clinics, respiratory virtual ward, home oxygen, primary care education, respiratory case management and pulmonary rehabilitation. We support an internal rotation program within the department to enhance ones respiratory nursing skills. We are looking for a patient focused nurse to join our team and help the service deliver responsive and compassionate care.

Main duties of the job

The aim of this role is to provide, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, comprehensive assessment and management of patients with chronic respiratory disease in a community virtual ward environment, providing excellent standards of care through improving and facilitating multi-professional working.

The post holder will join a flexible multi-professional team of nurses, physiotherapists, rehabilitation assistant and clinical administrator to provide, Community Virtual Ward/Admission Avoidance, Supported Hospital Discharge, Respiratory complex patient Case Management, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Oxygen Assessment and general respiratory primary care education in line with national guidelines and best practice, to patients in their own homes, virtually or in clinic settings.

The post holder will be required to work flexibly to provide a 8am - 6 pm service, 7 days a week and there will be an expectation to work weekend on rotational basis.

The post holder will be working in various community health care settings in Tower Hamlets, and across the Trust.

There will be an expectation to cover colleague absence as necessary.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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