Sleep Disordered Breathing/Respiratory Specialist Practitioner

Job summary

Exciting opportunity to join the Respiratory Sleep Medicine Service at Friarage Hospital, South Tees.

We are looking for a skilled professional to join an innovative team in delivering excellent care to patients requiring Non Invasive Ventilation with CPAP/BiPAP.

The candidate will be a registered nurse/physiologist/physiotherapist with an interest in Respiratory Sleep Medicine. This post is a specialist practitioner working as part of a multidisciplinary team in Respiratory Sleep Medicine.

The post holder will maintain and actively contribute to the delivery of excellent patient care to our service users.

The post holder will contribute to the further growth and development of Respiratory Sleep services to improve the quality of care for service users.

This role is a Band 6, however we would consider a Band 5 development role to work towards a Band 6 which will include a training programme of competencies to be completed in a specified timescale (please view both job descriptions).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work autonomously; clinically assessing new patients across inpatient and outpatient areas, in order to initiate new patients onto Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy or Bilevel positive airway pressure (Bipap) utilising local protocols, evidenced based clinical criteria, and national guidelines. The post holder will provide new and review clinics; analysing remote monitoring systems for all patient groups including some complex patients referred from specialist areas i.e. Bariatric services, adapting treatment regimens/prescriptions as appropriate to optimise therapy usage, whilst promoting self-care management with advice to ensure efficient and effective service provision through support and symptom recognition. Following discussion with senior staff and medics the post holder will refer for further related diagnostic procedures, intervention in treatment pathways or discharge from treatment. The post holder will have a good knowledge and understanding of a range of respiratory conditions and services to support or signpost other HCPs effectively providing a specialist service for patients with OSA and other conditions requiring Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, Non-Invasive Ventilation and where appropriate Adaptive-servo Ventilation. Prior knowledge and experience of Non-Invasive Ventilation and Adaptive-servo Ventilation is desirable. The post holder will deliver this role across Hospital Tees sites as required.

About us

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our staff in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading Your Team to Success
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these three and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training (Band 6)

Essential

• Registered Nurse or ARTP registered physiologist (Respiratory or Sleep)
• BSc in Nursing, Physiology or Physiotherapy or equivalent
• Qualified to BSc in an appropriate field relevant to the area of specialism.
• Evidence of relevant respiratory post graduate courses and CPD

Desirable

• Professional exams completed ARTP Part 1 and ARTP 2

Qualifications & Training (Band 5)

Essential

• Registered Nurse or ARTP registered physiologist (Respiratory or Sleep)
• Qualified to BSc in an appropriate field relevant to the area of specialism.
• Evidence of maintenance of own professional registration and revalidation as appropriate

Experience (Band 6)

Essential

• Previous experience of working at Band 6 or evidence of meeting the Band 5 KSF exit gateways
• Ability to demonstrate on-going professional development and up-to-date clinical practice in the fields of respiratory/sleep physiology
• Respiratory or critical care experience

Knowledge & Skills (Band 6)

Essential

• Broad knowledge and associated skills of related medical conditions for patients referred for Continuous Positive Airways Pressure, Non-Invasive and Adaptive-Servo Ventilation therapies, and the contra-indications for therapy.
• Previous Respiratory/sleep medicine skills

Knowledge & Skills (Band 5)

Essential

• Have knowledge of non-invasive ventilation therapies and the related medical conditions
• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy relating to specialist area

Experience (Band 5)

Essential

• Previous experience of working at Band 5

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).