Specialist Respiratory Nurse

Job summary

This is an exciting, fixed term opportunity for an experienced Registered Nurse to join our community respiratory service which includes respiratory nursing, home oxygen, pulmonary rehabilitation, and respiratory outpatient physiotherapy. Candidates need to have a keen interest in respiratory nursing and ideally would have established respiratory knowledge and skills.

The post involves providing support and education for respiratory patients discharged from hospital and working within the HOS-AR service in the community, with training and ongoing support provided to the successful applicant.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop a range of respiratory nursing skills and experience in a friendly and professional environment.

The successful candidate will work with experienced respiratory clinicians to provide high quality, personalised care to the people of Scarborough, Ryedale, and Whitby via clinic assessments and home visits.

To succeed in this role, you will need to be passionate about community healthcare provision, able to tackle key priorities with enthusiasm and have the tenacity to deliver patient care in an ever-changing environment.

Working pattern and base can be discussed.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality holistic evidence-based care to patients / service users that is responsive, effective, and efficient.

To assess and review patients referred to Respiratory Nursing, to remain as independent as possible. To provide education, support to improve their level of function and quality of life and prevent inappropriate hospital admissions. This may involve referral to other specialist services, provision of appropriate equipment or signposting to outside organisations.

To assess and review patients referred to the HOS-AR service maintaining excellence in oxygen related care as per national guidelines to ensure Home Oxygen assessment and reviews of patients are undertaken appropriately and underpinned by evidence-based practice.

Provide advice and support to patients using home oxygen.

To be pro-active in delivering anticipatory and responsive care, promoting independence, health lifestyle, reduction in health inequalities to improve the overall quality of life in the local population.

To liaise with multi-professional caseload holders and case managers regarding patients on their caseloads

To work with primary care to develop relationships and support general practice with home oxygen prescribing and queries and community respiratory advice.

To liaise with the home oxygen provider, to ensure up to date equipment and service knowledge and be the patient advocate as required.

Involvement with specialist professional respiratory networks

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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