Respiratory Nurse/Physiotherapist

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust; Billingham, North East; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic registered nurse or physiotherapist to join our specialist respiratory team. The role covers Hartlepool and Stockton with care delivered in clinic and patients' homes as part of the North Tees and Hartlepool integrated service.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, provide proactive assessment and pathway-based interventions, and collaborate with consultants. Some weekend work and cross-site flexibility are required.

Qualifications

• Registered professional Nurse or Physiotherapist with current registration.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Full driving licence.
• Willingness to work across sites and provide home-based care.

Responsibilities

• Pro-actively manage patients needing specialist respiratory assessment.
• Provide care in community and clinic/hospital settings, including home visits.
• Collaborate with Specialist Respiratory Practitioners and MDT; rotate into other clinical roles as required.
• Be flexible to cover weekends and cross-site duties.
• Support development within the respiratory service across North of Tees.

Skills

Nurse

Physiotherapist

Education

Degree in Nursing or Physiotherapy

Job description

Do you really want to make a difference? Do you want to help patients remain living independently in their own homes working within a multi-disciplinary team? Do you want to be part of an innovative Respiratory team offering the highest quality care for patients? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic registered specialist Nurse or Physiotherapist to join our highly specialised and committed respiratory clinicians, working as an integrated respiratory team, providing care to patients with Respiratory disease across North of Tees in a fixed term position covering maternity leave.

The post holder will be responsible for providing high standard of care to patients across Hartlepool and Stockton with regards to their respiratory health. The service provides care both in a clinic and home environment

Main duties of the job

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for the pro-active management of patients who will need immediate specialist and comprehensive assessment and pathway based interventions. You will have direct links into the hospital and full support from a wider team including consultant.

This post will involve ongoing patient assessment and review of patients who have complex presentations or multiple pathologies. And following treatment plans set out by senior clinicians. The post holders will need to be able to work flexibly, including weekend working.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.

Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.

We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Job responsibilities

This is an ideal opportunity for a registered professional Nurse or Physiotherapist, who have experience and an interest in working within Respiratory, who are proactive, self-motivated and keen to be at the forefront of delivering high quality care, to join our team. The successful candidate will work closely with the Specialist Respiratory Practitioners in providing support and care for patients with Respiratory disease in the community and in patient setting. Recent training experience in relevant respiratory care is required for this post.

There will be an opportunity of development, through rotation into other Clinical roles, as a result of being a member of an innovative, responsive multidisciplinary team.

The integrated team is working in many innovative and exciting ways to improve quality of life for people with respiratory disease. The Respiratory team works within the community setting and includes Asthma, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and a home oxygen service. The service has implemented a "hospital at home" service, where more complex and intensive support is provided in the patients own home as an alternative to acute care for COPD exacerbation management. This service also supports early discharge from hospital.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Traning

• Registered Nurse or Physiotherapy Practitioner
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Full driving licence
• Possession of or willing to work towards Clinical Skills qualification
• Teaching qualification
• Teaching certificate

Experience

• Experience of working in an acute of community environment with respiratory patients
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of managing a community caseload

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.