Respiratory Practitioner NCL Altered Airways & Complex Respiratory

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is looking for an experienced respiratory professional to join a service supporting altered airway and complex respiratory patients. This role involves providing respiratory expertise, facilitating hospital discharges, and engaging with multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should possess extensive experience in respiratory management and effective communication skills. This is a 6-month fixed term contract, ideal for those seeking valuable experience in the community setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in altered airway and complex respiratory management.
• Experience working in the community.
• Project management skills or previous service development experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver service supporting complex respiratory management.
• Facilitate discharge and prevent hospital admissions for patients.
• Provide expert clinical advice to community teams.

Skills

Altered airway management

Complex respiratory management

Project management

High-level communication

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and experienced respiratory professional (this role is open to qualified Nurses, Physiotherapists or Speech and Language Therapists) to join a new service supporting altered airway and complex respiratory patients across North-Central London (NCL). This vacancy has arisen due to the current post holder taking a career break; we are recruiting to a 6-month fixed term contract to cover this.

The aim of the role is to provide respiratory expertise; to facilitate hospital discharge of altered airway and complex respiratory patients, support management in the community and provide education and training for other community teams. The role is hosted by UCLH, but reviews patients across NCL and has close working links with other acute hospitals and services across NCL. We are looking for an individual with extensive experience in the management of altered airway and complex respiratory patients. Experience working in the community, project management skills or previous experience developing a service are desirable. The successful candidate will be a dynamic and motivated person who can provide decisive and effective therapy input and demonstrate high level communication skills and a flexible approach when working under pressure. This would be an ideal secondment for someone looking to further their experience.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites.

Responsibilities

• To input to the design and delivery of this service; while supporting complex respiratory management of patients across NCL.
• To provide support to facilitate discharge from and avoid admission to hospital for these individuals.
• To provide expert clinical advice through training, guidance and information to the community teams and people who support the patients at home.
• To be an experienced practitioner in all aspects of respiratory practice, developing an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability in the provision of such care.
• To be an expert practitioner in delivering high quality respiratory care in domiciliary and community settings.
• To work within multi-disciplinary teams and liaise appropriately with all members of the multidisciplinary team and service users both within local hospitals and in area's anticipatory care system.
• Jointly with the other team members you will lead, co-ordinate and evaluate acute respiratory care within NCL, working in partnership with all other disciplines to facilitate further service development ensuring that the clinical governance agenda and national recommendations are realised.
• To promote NCL as a national leader in developing community respiratory expertise for altered airways and complex acute respiratory.
• In line with the Trust's commitment to Clinical Governance, develop, lead and implement standards for clinical audit to evaluate clinical effectiveness and promote excellence within the service.

About the service and organisation

The role is hosted by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). UCLH offers a wide range of services and is dedicated to sustainability with targets for net zero emissions. UCLH provides information about flexible working and staff benefits through various channels. This section includes general information about UCLH practices and staff support services; it is retained to preserve the original content and context.

Requirements and desirables

• An experienced practitioner with extensive experience in altered airway and complex respiratory management.
• Experience working in the community.
• Project management skills or previous experience developing a service is desirable.
• Dynamic and motivated with the ability to provide decisive and effective therapy input and high level communication skills; able to work under pressure; flexible approach.
• Ideal for someone seeking a secondment to further experience.

Additional information

As part of the application, details about recruitment and general organisational information are included. The description preserves the original content about UCLH benefits, flexible working policies, and equality and diversity commitments, while removing extraneous boilerplate where possible. Applications are managed electronically via TRAC.jobs and communications are by email. The vacancy may close before the listed closing date. If you have not heard within 3 weeks of the closing date, assume you have not been shortlisted.