Job responsibilities
Our Vision
To support our practices and patients
by being a lead provider of innovative, responsive and high-quality GP-linked
primary care services in North West Surrey, delivering equitable access to
primary care services and improving the healthcare of our population.
Our Mission
To support our practices and
their patients by providing high quality, responsive and compassionate health
care services. We do this by working collaboratively with our practices and
other health providers across Surrey.
Our Values
Our values are at the heart of
everything that we do and inspire us.
Our responsibilities and personal interaction with patients and with
others are guided by our core values of working together for our patients,
commitment to quality of care, ensuring everyone counts and improving
lives.
Job Purpose/Main
responsibilities of role:
Service Provision:
- Running
spirometry clinics from NICS Acute Illness sites and outreach clinics.
- Numerical and
clinical Interpretation of adult and paediatric spirometry and FeNO results for the service.
- Provide
support to Administration Team with triage of referrals.
- Troubleshoot
problems occurring on clinic days with spirometers and connection errors.
- Provide
on-call support to HCA team when clinics are running, via teams WhatsApp group.
- Liaise with
Respiratory Nurse Specialist.
- Liaise with
other services to support joined-up working with outside agencies as part of
the development of the service.
Quality
Assurance:
- Quality
control and verification of interpretations carried out by other clinicians.
- Maintain
quality and standard required for all testing performed.
- Ensure
spirometer settings at each location are in line with correct protocols.
- Identify
patients requiring urgent onward referral to secondary care.
- Remain up to
date with guidelines for performing spirometry and FeNO and feedback to team.
Line
Management:
- Supervise and
support HCAs both in person on-site and via on-line training.
- Feedback any
concerns to Clinic lead /Clinic co-ordinators
-
Participate in team meetings.
Governance:
-
Ensure
service is providing ARTP/BTS standard spirometry testing.
-
Check
calibration ranges / equipment maintenance for each location.
-
Conduct
IPC monthly audits.
- Ensure clinic data results and history is accurate on
EMIS.
- Support with Standard operating procedure updates
RADAR:
- Report
Safeguarding concerns arising in clinic
- Report IT issues
encountered by service
- Report IPC
concerns
Requirements:
-
Asthma Diploma or equivalent
-
ARTP or similar accreditation
-
Working and up to date knowledge of
Asthma and COPD
-
Performing and Interpretation of
spirometry certificate or similar
-
Enthusiastic and innovative team player
who can work autonomously.
-
Specialist interest in Respiratory
disease
Supervisory experience
The
post holder is responsible for the delivery of Asthma and COPD investigations
and reviews. The post holder will support patients to better manage their long term
conditions, using a personalised care planning approach.
They
will work collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team to meet the needs of
patients. They will support the clinical team as well as the Health Care
Assistants providing advice and guidance where applicable.
- To initiate investigations for patients on
respiratory pathways
- To carry out FeNO/Spirometry if indicated, and
interpret the results (where qualified to do so)
- Implement and evaluate individual care plans
for patients with Asthma and COPD, ensuring they have an understanding of how
to manage any exacerbations or changes in symptoms
- Identify and manage appropriately patients at
risk of developing respiratory disease
- To recommend and prescribe (where qualified to
do so) inhaled therapies in line with local and national guidance, aiming for
good symptom control.
- Provide patients with
teaching to ensure good inhaler technique
- Prioritise health
problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent
or emergency situations, including the initiation of effective emergency care
- Support patients to
adopt health promotion strategies that encourage good health, deliver
opportunistic health promotion at all times and support the principles of
selfcare
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete
records of patient consultations, consistent with legislation, policies and
procedures
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload
that maintains and promotes quality
- Deliver care according
to the NSF and National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and
Evidence based care
- Understand and apply
the legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused
adults and children being aware of local policies, guidelines and procedures
- To keep up to date
with changes in guidance.
- Recognise and work within their own competence
and professional code of conduct.
Confidentiality
- Everyone
working in or for the NHS has the responsibility to use information and data in
a secure and confidential way. Staff who have access to information about
individuals (whether patients, staff, or others) need to use it effectively,
whilst maintaining appropriate levels of confidentiality. You must be aware of
the data protection legislation in relation to data security (confidentiality,
integrity and availability) and ensure strict adherence to the provisions
therein at all times.
- In the
course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather,
sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right
to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the
performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may
have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers,
NICS staff and other healthcare workers.
They may also have access to information relating to NICS as a business
organisation. All such information from
any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information
relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the
business of NICS may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with
the NICS policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection
of personal and sensitive data.
Health
& safety
Health & Safety policy and NICS Infection
Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be
limited to):
- Maintaining
an up-to-date knowledge of health, safety, and infection control statutory and
best practice guidelines and ensuring implementation across the business.
- Using
personal security systems within the workplace according to NICS guidelines
- Identifying
the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way
that manages those risks across the business.
- Making
effective use of training to update knowledge and skills,
- Actively
identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection
hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping
own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, identifying issues
and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and
assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness
across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector
managers
- Undertaking
periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
- Routine
management of team areas, and maintenance of workspace standards
- Demonstrate
due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Equality and Diversity
The
post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers
and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in
a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a
way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
- Respecting
the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
- Behaving
in a manner that is welcoming to, of the individual, is non-judgmental, and
respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development
The
post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by NICS as
part of this employment, with such training to include:
- Participation
in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for
maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- Taking
responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating
skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Communication
The
post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within
the team and will strive to:
- Communicate
effectively with other team members.
- Communicate
effectively with patients and carers.
- Recognise
peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond
accordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services
The
post-holder will:
- Apply
NICS policies, standards and guidance.
- Discuss
with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will
affect their own work.
- Participate
in audit where appropriate.
