Senior Staff Nurse - Specialist Respiratory Weaning and Rehab

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prominent NHS foundation trust as a Senior Staff Nurse specializing in Respiratory Weaning and Rehabilitation. You will be part of the Lane Fox Respiratory Unit, renowned for managing chronic respiratory conditions, providing top-tier specialized care. Ideal candidates will have critical care qualifications and experience in high-dependency settings.

Qualifications

• Completed a critical care course.
• Significant experience in ITU/HDU/Respiratory settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized respiratory care to complex patients.
• Manage patient ventilation and weaning processes.
• Support patients with chronic respiratory diseases.

Skills

Critical thinking

Resilience

Communication

Education

Post registration critical care qualification (ITU / HDU)

Job description

Senior Staff Nurse - Specialist Respiratory Weaning and Rehab

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Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse - Specialist Respiratory Weaning and Rehabilitation Unit

If you are looking for a challenge and have an interest in specialist respiratory medicine, then we are the place for you. Would you like to develop your knowledge and skills within Respiratory Weaning and Rehabilitation? Do you like to be challenged and think autonomously? If so we have vacancies for Band 6 Senior Staff Nurses on Lane Fox Respiratory Unit.

The Lane Fox Respiratory Unit is the largest weaning and home mechanical ventilation centre in the UK. We provide management and long term follow up for patients with chronic respiratory disease such as COPD and neuro-muscular diseases. The Lane Fox Respiratory Unit also offers specialist nurse lead clinics and a home ventilation service for assessing and advising patients with chronic respiratory illness.

We welcome you to contact us to find out more about the role and would be happy to show you around the unit and answer any questions you may have.

Please note to be considered for this vacancy you must have completed a critical care course and either have your results or be waiting for your results to be processed.

Should you be successful at interview and you are unable to provide the recruiting manger with confirmation of a successfully competed critical care course within 2 months of being interviewed then your offer will be withdrawn

Closing Date: 6th July 2025 midnight

Interview Date: 21st July 2025

Our Unique, Purpose Built 14 Bedded Unit Delivers Highly Quality Specialised Respiratory Care To Complex Level 2 And Level 3 Patients Including

• Tracheostomy management and mechanical ventilation
• Weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation
• Acute and chronic non-invasive ventilation
• High Flow oxygen therapy
  
  

If you share our vision to help patients with respiratory failure to live independently this is the perfect job for you.

We welcome applicants with a willingness to learn, that thrive under pressure and have the ability to adapt and refine their skills according to the demands of the unit. You MUST have a post registration critical care qualification (ITU / HDU) and significant experience in an ITU / HDU/Respiratory settings.

We can offer you a personalised induction programme with supervision and support from our dedicated practice development team and one to one support from the senior nursing team. We have excellent development programme with protected learning time including support to develop management skills.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: David Metherell Job title: Charge Nurse Email address: [e-mail]

Camille Rabajante, Sister

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