Home Oxygen Assessment Nurse

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Chester; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Part-time Home Oxygen Assessment Nurse to join the Respiratory Care Team in the Urgent Care Division. The role involves assessing and supporting patients requiring oxygen therapy at home and delivering hospital-based outpatient clinics alongside home visit assessments.

You should be a Registered Nurse with respiratory experience, ideally with a Teaching and Assessing Qualification, and prepared for travel to patients.

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse with current registration.
• Experience in Respiratory Nursing is advantageous.
• Teaching and Assessing Qualification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess and support patients requiring oxygen therapy at domiciliary basis.
• Work with MDT to deliver nurse-led clinics and home visits.
• Liaise with community Home Oxygen team and other providers.

Skills

Interest in Respiratory Nursing

Previous experience in Respiratory N

Education

Registered General Nurse

Teaching and Assessing Qualification

Job description

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Home Oxygen Assessment Nurse

The closing date is 04 November 2026

Working Part time : 28 hours per week (4 days - Monday to Wednesday and Thursday short day )

The Respiratory Team is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and self-motivated Registered Nurse to the Respiratory Care Team within the Urgent Care Division. This post is to assess and support patients requiring oxygen therapy on a domiciliary basis. The role offers an opportunity to work with a dynamic respiratory nurse team to improve the care and management of patients requiring oxygen, performing assessments in a complex cohort of patients with changing health care needs. This service works across the acute hospital and community setting enabling a seamless service for patients who require oxygen therapy on a domiciliary basis. You will work closely with all members of the multi-disciplinary team both in the Trust and the community setting. You should have experience in general respiratory nursing and ideally hold a diploma or recognised respiratory course or be working towards a degree. The post will consist of hospital-based outpatient clinics and home visit assessments and ongoing care. Client interventions can be planned or on an SOS basis. Relevant training will be provided to promote autonomous working. It is essential that you can drive and have access to a car in order to carry out home visit assessments.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with all members of the Respiratory multi- disciplinary team, contributing to weekly MDT meetings, supporting and independently delivering both new diagnosis, review clinics, home assessments and developing nurse led clinics.

You will be liaising and working alongside other care providers internally and externally including CWP and the Community Home Oxygen team.

About us

The Trust's services are provided from three locations: The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 473 general and acute beds. Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 60 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility. Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust employs 5,964 staff (headcount) to provide care and treatment to a population of over 400,000 people living in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System. Due to its location on the border with North Wales, the Trust also works closely with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust treats patients from England and some parts of Wales. During 2024/2025, there were approximately 643,000 patient attendances (inpatient, A&E, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse
• Teaching and Assessing Qualification.

Knowledge and Experience

• Interest in Respiratory Nursing
• Previous experience in Respiratory Nursing

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.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust