Respiratory Nurse

NHS; Colchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A GP practice in Colchester is looking for a full-time respiratory nurse to join their team. Responsibilities include conducting health assessments, managing asthma and COPD clinics, and promoting health well-being. Candidates must have current NMC registration and experience in managing long-term conditions. This role offers a collaborative environment with a diverse clinical team.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Competence to undertake asthma and COPD, holding relevant certificates.
• Knowledge and experience of supporting long-term conditions.
• Insight into current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

Responsibilities

• Undertake health assessments, administer medications, and perform diagnostic tests.
• Provide and evaluate health interventions for patients.
• Run asthma and COPD clinics and manage long-term conditions.
• Prioritize health issues and intervene in emergencies.

Skills

Experience with asthma

Experience with COPD

Health assessment skills

Medication administration

Diagnostic testing

Health promotion

Education

Current NMC registration

Job description

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice in Colchester is a friendly and welcoming GP practice and are currently seeking a respiratory nurse to join our team.Working across our two sites, Ambrose Avenue and Tollgate, this is a full-time role, requiring 37.5 hours per week over five days. The successful applicantmust have experience with asthma and COPD.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
• General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
• Running asthma, COPD clinics and reviews.
• Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.

About us

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a friendly, long-established, award-winning, progressive GP practice. We are based over two surgery sites within 10 minutes of each other, serving the population of Stanway and Prettygate in Colchester, Essex. We are a training practice and offer services to a population of over 14,500 patients.The clinical team consists of eight GPs, GP trainee, four advanced nurse practitioners, three nurses, two healthcare assistants, and various allied health professionals, including GP assistant, health and wellbeing coach, clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technicians, care coordinator, social prescriber and care advisor. We hold monthly meetings and training sessions and have a diverse team of clinicians, including first contact physio, pharmacists, ANP/NP, care coordinator, social prescriber, health coach, GP assistant and an award-winning team of mental health workers.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.

Experience

• Competence to undertake asthma and COPD, holding relevant certificates.
• Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

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.

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