Respiratory Clinic Nurse (Out-patient based)
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified Nurse, with respiratory experience to join our evolving multidisciplinary respiratory team, in order to deliver outstanding respiratory care to our patients in the setting of outpatient clinics.
We are looking for a nurse to provide respiratory nursing care, from the point of diagnosis and beyond, promoting best practice across our services.
This is a particularly exciting time to join the team here at SGH as we develop and reshape current services to meet need, including expanding our current working with partners internally and externally.
We are a forward-thinking department and embrace both service and individual professional development, including support for formal qualifications and attending/presenting research at national/international respiratory conferences.
Whatever your previous background, whether tertiary, secondary, primary community care, or independent sector, if this post is of interest to you, we would love to hear from you.
Interview date: 16th January 2025
Main duties of the job
To support respiratory assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care for a range of patients with diagnosed and undiagnosed respiratory disease, largely in the stable disease state.
There may also be the opportunity for secondments working in the respiratory ward.
To build relationships with patients and their carers, supporting them to make informed health care decisions that improve their overall health outcomes.
To be a part of service reform and development.
To ensure the smooth running of the chest clinic outpatient department and providing management and supervision to the team.
This requires working with a number of partners including patients and carers, Respiratory and Infectious Diseases consultants, Respiratory, Pleural and Tuberculosis (TB) nurses, GPs, community MDT teams and other partners such as Oxygen providers.
About us St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Job responsibilities Please refer to the Job Description and the personal specification for a more detailed aspect of the role.
Person Specification Qualifications & Training
RN (adult)
NMC registered
Respiratory related diploma/ degree module
Association Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP) spirometry qualification - performing and/or reporting
Level 1 Smoking cessation training
Experience
12 months post registration healthcare employment
Demonstrate the ability to supervise and mentor junior staff including student nurses.
12 months post registration outpatient/respiratory experience
Skills
Ability to prioritise work and to help co-ordinate the service across multiple demands, ensuring patient focus.
Ability to assess, plan and evaluate patient care according to individual needs.
Good communicator (written and spoken), able to manage competing work pressures.
Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to patient care.
Accurately record and respond to clinical data (e.g., respiratory rate, peak flow, etc).
Able to undertake Phlebotomy.
Able to use a variety of IT platforms including Word, Excel, and electronic patient records.
Motivates and demonstrates enthusiasm for respiratory health.
Advocates for the correct use of pharmacological interventions.
Advocates for engagement with non-pharmacological interventions, e.g., pulmonary rehabilitation, breathlessness management.
Able to undertake and record carbon monoxide and FENO levels.
Able to undertake Capillary/Arterial blood gas analysis.
Experience in looking after and assessing patients requiring home oxygen therapy.
Experience in administering nebuliser antibiotic therapy.
Use of motivational interview skills.
Knowledge
Knowledge of working in a secondary care clinical environment.
Able to manage a caseload of patients & supervise junior staff in caseload management.
Understand the importance of developing self and others.
Knowledge of respiratory local and national policies relating to the provision of respiratory services.
Know and work in accordance with the trust values.
Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of audit/service improvement.
Baseline understanding of common respiratory diseases and their treatments, principally Asthma and COPD.
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.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£35,964 to £43,780 a year per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
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We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified Nurse, with respiratory experience to join our evolving multidisciplinary respiratory team, in order to deliver outstanding respiratory care to our patients in the setting of outpatient clinics.
We are looking for a nurse to provide respiratory nursing care, from the point of diagnosis and beyond, promoting best practice across our services.
This is a particularly exciting time to join the team here at SGH as we develop and reshape current services to meet need, including expanding our current working with partners internally and externally.
We are a forward-thinking department and embrace both service and individual professional development, including support for formal qualifications and attending/presenting research at national/international respiratory conferences.
Whatever your previous background, whether tertiary, secondary, primary community care, or independent sector, if this post is of interest to you, we would love to hear from you.
Interview date: 16th January 2025
Main duties of the job
To support respiratory assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care for a range of patients with diagnosed and undiagnosed respiratory disease, largely in the stable disease state.
There may also be the opportunity for secondments working in the respiratory ward.
To build relationships with patients and their carers, supporting them to make informed health care decisions that improve their overall health outcomes.
To be a part of service reform and development.
To ensure the smooth running of the chest clinic outpatient department and providing management and supervision to the team.
This requires working with a number of partners including patients and carers, Respiratory and Infectious Diseases consultants, Respiratory, Pleural and Tuberculosis (TB) nurses, GPs, community MDT teams and other partners such as Oxygen providers.
About us St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Job responsibilities Please refer to the Job Description and the personal specification for a more detailed aspect of the role.
Person Specification Qualifications & Training
RN (adult)
NMC registered
Respiratory related diploma/ degree module
Association Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP) spirometry qualification - performing and/or reporting
Level 1 Smoking cessation training
Experience
12 months post registration healthcare employment
Demonstrate the ability to supervise and mentor junior staff including student nurses.
12 months post registration outpatient/respiratory experience
Skills
Ability to prioritise work and to help co-ordinate the service across multiple demands, ensuring patient focus.
Ability to assess, plan and evaluate patient care according to individual needs.
Good communicator (written and spoken), able to manage competing work pressures.
Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to patient care.
Accurately record and respond to clinical data (e.g., respiratory rate, peak flow, etc).
Able to undertake Phlebotomy.
Able to use a variety of IT platforms including Word, Excel, and electronic patient records.
Motivates and demonstrates enthusiasm for respiratory health.
Advocates for the correct use of pharmacological interventions.
Advocates for engagement with non-pharmacological interventions, e.g., pulmonary rehabilitation, breathlessness management.
Able to undertake and record carbon monoxide and FENO levels.
Able to undertake Capillary/Arterial blood gas analysis.
Experience in looking after and assessing patients requiring home oxygen therapy.
Experience in administering nebuliser antibiotic therapy.
Use of motivational interview skills.
Knowledge
Knowledge of working in a secondary care clinical environment.
Able to manage a caseload of patients & supervise junior staff in caseload management.
Understand the importance of developing self and others.
Knowledge of respiratory local and national policies relating to the provision of respiratory services.
Know and work in accordance with the trust values.
Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of audit/service improvement.
Baseline understanding of common respiratory diseases and their treatments, principally Asthma and COPD.
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.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£35,964 to £43,780 a year per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
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