Respiratory Nurse Specialist

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Respiratory Nurse Specialist for a 12-month maternity cover. The ideal candidate will be part of a dedicated team, delivering high-quality specialist care to patients with a variety of respiratory diseases. Responsibilities include advising clinicians, providing evidence-based care, and developing multidisciplinary clinics. Exceptional support and career development opportunities are available within this outstanding rated Trust.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Respiratory Nurse Specialist is ideal.
• Commitment to further education, particularly clinical competencies.
• Demonstrable ability to deliver evidence-based patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality specialist Respiratory care to patients with chronic lung disease.
• Advise healthcare professionals on the provision of respiratory care.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary clinics for respiratory diseases.

Skills

Respiratory care expertise

Clinical examination skills

Non-medical prescribing

Team collaboration

Education

Masters level education in a relevant field

Job description

Please note- it is the applicants responsibility to seek authorisation from their current manager to be released for the secondment before a formal application is made. We are looking for a new enthusiastic, innovative candidate who would fit into this highly motivated team.

You will be joining an exciting, well established, experienced Respiratory Nurse Specialist Team of 3 whole time equivalents that benefits from superb clinical and managerial leadership, from the wider Respiratory team. This post is for maternity cover for 12 months. You will be part of a dynamic, hardworking clinical team that works together to provide Respiratory nursing support to patients with a wide range of respiratory disease. You will provide vital support to these patients, their carers and families; with close links to our Community Partners, you will also be made to feel valued as you are developed to your full potential by this Trust. The department is looking to introduce new disease specific multidisciplinary clinics like Asthma, Bronchiectasis and interstitial lung disease. The successful candidate will be part of the nursing team that delivers this service, to work within a multi-disciplinary team and deliver high quality specialist Respiratory care to a broad spectrum of patients living with chronic lung disease, within both the inpatient and outpatient setting. The post holder will be expected to advise primary and secondary care clinicians as appropriate about the setting up, implementation, delivery and evaluation of patient care utilising evidence based practice. In addition, the post holder will be expected to provide a service in accordance with national, regional and local guidance, standards and protocols and policies to ensure the most positive outcome for the patients are achieved. The post holder will abide by legal requirements and statutory rules relating to practice and promote and maintain standards of professional practice in accordance with The Nursing and Midwifery Councils (NMC) Code and Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice. Key relationships include matron, director of nursing, heads of quality, directorate manager, consultants and junior medical staff, nursing staff, allied health professionals, administrative and clerical support staff, professional and technical staff.

You will ideally have experience as a Respiratory Nurse Specialist and be able to demonstrate commitment to further education, ideally clinical examination, diagnostics at Masters level and non-medical prescribing, or be working towards these qualifications.

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside and one of the few in the country to achieve OUTSTANDING rated by the Care Quality Commission. We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across the North West, North Wales, and Isle of Man. We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit. Our ‘5 Star Patient Care’ strategy is at the heart of what we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time. Our latest achievements include:

• Acute Trust of the Year HSJ Awards November 2019
• Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
• Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
• Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas:

• Standard of care
• Best place to work
• Care of patients being the Trust's priority
• Staff engagement
• Staff morale
• Compassionate & inclusive
• Providing safe environments for staff