Advanced Respiratory Practitioner Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

River Alliance of Wisconsin; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an enthusiastic Advanced Respiratory Practitioner to join their dynamic Liverpool Community Respiratory Team. This role is pivotal in providing high-quality care for patients with complex respiratory conditions while ensuring timely hospital admission avoidance and supported discharge. You will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, develop care plans, and provide clinical supervision. If you are passionate about improving patient outcomes and thrive in a community-focused environment, this opportunity is perfect for you to make a significant impact in respiratory health.

Qualifications

• High level of clinical decision-making required for respiratory conditions.
• Sound theoretical and practical knowledge in respiratory care essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and treatment plans for complex respiratory conditions.
• Develop individualised care plans with patient involvement.
• Ensure high-quality service delivery and clinical supervision.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Specialist respiratory care

Patient assessment

Care planning

Team collaboration

Education

Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification

Relevant nursing degree

Tools

Patient management systems

Clinical assessment tools

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic Advanced Respiratory Practitioner to work within the Liverpool Community Respiratory Team/Acute Respiratory Infections Virtual ward.

Liverpool Community Respiratory Team host The Acute Respiratory Infections Virtual Ward. We provide hospital admission avoidance and early supported discharge for patients with exacerbation COPD, bronchiectasis, community acquired pneumonia and viral lower respiratory tract infections, along with nurse led respiratory optimisation in patient's homes and clinic settings.

Medical leadership is by a respiratory Consultant working in the service. There are also 2 Advanced Clinical Practitioners who provide clinical support. The team is also made up of a team leader, B6 and B7 specialist nurses, physiotherapists, an assistant practitioner and admin support.

The service provides a 2-hour rapid assessment hospital admission avoidance and early supported discharge for patients with a range of respiratory conditions. This is from the patient's homes, from 2 acute hospitals and includes the continued case management during their exacerbation in the community. A high level of clinical decision-making is required for this post therefore sound theoretical and practical knowledge relating to this speciality is required.

Given the community-wide nature of this role, a high degree of mobility is required. The role will include working across various locations, with shifts covering 7-days per week.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide care, treatment plans, advice and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist respiratory conditions in the community and LUHFT hospital sites.
2. Responsible for the delivery of identified specialist training.
3. Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
4. Ensure that the team provides a high quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
5. Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
6. Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.
7. Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co-ordinated provision of health and social care services.
8. Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
9. Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
10. Assess patients with respiratory conditions and consider a range of options when delivering acute and highly complex care, drawing on specialist services as required.
11. Undertake chronic disease management reviews of the housebound patient/client, where appropriate.
12. Provide support in managing patients/clients with chronic diseases.
13. Following holistic assessment of need, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients and carers.
14. Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
15. Direct and support the management of complex and highly complex, continuing care packages.

This advert closes on Monday 30 Dec 2024.