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Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust; Hitchin; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust is recruiting for a Specialist Respiratory Practitioner in Hitchin. The role is a 12-month fixed term contract within the Integrated Community Respiratory Service (ICRS), working Monday to Friday 8am-6pm with flexible patterns discussed at interview.

Staff may cross-cover all localities within East and North Hertfordshire. The post supports admission prevention, discharge from hospital, home oxygen assessments, and close collaboration with secondary care to

Qualifications

• Respiratory Nursing/AHP background preferred
• Non-Medical Prescribing (or willingness to complete) considered

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist advice and support to patients, families and carers to empower self-management
• Evaluate medication effects and ensure safe management in partnership with medicines management teams
• Conduct oxygen assessment for adults and LTOT/ambulatory oxygen suitability
• Liaise with GP surgeries, HCT and CCGs to improve care for respiratory disorders
• Support Community Matrons and Integrated Care Teams with complex respiratory patients
• Deliver education sessions for pulmonary rehabilitation as needed
• Promote best practice and evidence-based care for chronic respiratory disease
• Maintain patient confidentiality and handle information sensitively

Job description

Specialist Respiratory Practitioner | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Would you like to be part of an exciting new way of working where Primary, Secondary and Community providers are truly integrated, sharing IT and working together to improve the patient’s pathway within East & North Hertfordshire? Would you like to be part of highly a functioning and supportive community respiratory team?

From September 2026 we will have vacancies within the Integrated Community Respiratory Service (ICRS) for a Respiratory Specialist Nurses or Allied Health professionals that have a passion for Respiratory and want to be at the heart of supporting primary and community care. The 12-month fixed term contracts will allow the service to develop and evaluate new emerging pathways in the delivery of COPD care. The service operates Monday to Friday 8am-6pm. This working pattern is flexible and can be discussed further. Staff are expected to cross cover all localities within East and North Hertfordshire.

The service offers admission prevention and supportive discharge from hospital; we work closely with secondary care colleagues and established community teams to ensure that the patient’s journey is as smooth as possible. Home oxygen assessments are also part of the role. The core principle of the service is to put the patient at the centre of care, ensuring they are seen at the right time, by the right person in the right place.

*Proposed interview date : 20th October 2026*

Work autonomously responsible for own workload.

Provide specialist advice and support to patients, their families and their carer’s. Empower appropriate patients at all stages to embrace self-management and self-responsibility for managing their condition, in the patient’s own home.

Evaluate the effects of medication, ensuring the safe management and support of these patients, in partnership with Hertfordshire medicines management teams.

To provide oxygen assessment service for adult patients, to be competent in the assessment of patients potentially benefiting from LTOT and ambulatory oxygen.

To liaise with other health professionals in the GP surgeries and HCT & CCG’s towards improving the care of people with respiratory disorders.

To support the Community Matrons and Integrated Care Teams with their complex respiratory patients

Act as a resource for primary care staff on the management of patients with Chronic Respiratory disease, promoting effective care and avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions/referrals.

To be actively involved with the pulmonary rehabilitation classes – delivering education sessions as needed.

Demonstrate a high level of advanced clinical competence in respiratory disease management, based on in depth knowledge, research and evidence based findings.

Prescribe under the remit of non-medical prescribing, working to trust and NMC guidelines (or equivalent) or to successfully complete the Non-Medical Prescribing course and practice as a prescriber within current guidelines.

Maintain confidentiality and manage information sensitively.

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities

Our staff are proud to be Caring, Pioneering and Inclusive in their work to help achieve the Trust vision.

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages

HCT will prioritise recruitment of workers living in England under the new immigration rules for care workers effective from 9 April 2025. Employers must first prove that they have attempted to recruit a worker from within England who needs new sponsorship. This ensures that those who came to the UK to pursue a career in adult social care can do so.

Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum

Hours: Full-time

Location: Hitchin, SG5 1HF

Job type: Contract

Posting date: 2 Oct 2026

Closing date: 1 Nov 2026

This advert closes on Monday