Advanced Respiratory Nurse/Oxygen Specialist Practitioner

Job summary

We are seeking a band 7 Respiratory Specialist Nurse to lead our Home Oxygen Service. The Home Oxygen Service sits within our wider community respiratory team which includes respiratory nursing, home oxygen, pulmonary rehabilitation, and respiratory outpatient physiotherapy. Candidates need to have a keen interest in respiratory nursing and established respiratory knowledge and skills.

The post involves providing support and education for respiratory patients discharged from hospital and leading within the Home Oxygen service in the community, providing leadership, training and staff support.

The post holder will lead the Home Oxygen Service with responsibility for the provision of a coordinated service to facilitate the integrated and proactive delivery of care to patients on home oxygen therapy and with a range of respiratory disease across Scarborough, Ryedale and Whitby areas.

Working pattern and base within the service delivery area can be discussed.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure complex patients requiring home oxygen therapy receive high quality, holistic, evidence-based, cost-effective clinical assessment, intervention & review, underpinned by national guidelines, evidenced based practice and current clinical guidelines.
• To work closely with other Band 7 respiratory colleagues to support and ensure the smooth running of the community respiratory services.
• To manage a clinical caseload, providing advice and support to patients using home oxygen, and maintaining overall responsibility for clinical caseload management.
• To continue to demonstrate advanced clinical skills in practice and provide support and advice re service development and the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, & external agencies, across a number of teams/geographical areas
• 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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