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Respiratory Specialist Practitioner

4 months ago


Blackpool, United Kingdom Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Respiratory Specialist Practitioner role is a highly specialised role, designed to provide expert assessment, review, advice, education & medicines optimisation to patients with specific respiratory diseases & home oxygen therapy.

The post holder will be responsible for working across the integrated services of Respiratory Nurse Specialists, Home Oxygen Service, Pulmonary Rehabilitation & Bronchiectasis Physiotherapy Service. The post holder will be required to undertake Respiratory Nurse Specialist inpatient reviews & clinics, Home Oxygen clinics/home visits & support delivery of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes independently & in a self-directed manner across Trust & non-Trust sites, which will include undertaking home visits & safety checks in the patient’s place of residence and will therefore require a driving license & vehicle to undertake this work.

Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification for more specific information

Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification for full details
- Undertake advanced assessment of patients and effectively interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical information in a range of complex, long-term diagnoses to develop comprehensive, patient-centred management plans, using the most up to date guidelines/recommendations (e.g., British Thoracic Society, GOLD, GINA), optimisation of current treatment plans/ inhaled/oral therapies, home oxygen assessment & delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
- Encourage patients to engage with self-management strategies and services that will positively affect their health and well-being, contributing to reducing mortality, maintaining disease stability and reduce the need to utilise emergency services.
- Participate in the continuous improvement and development of the Respiratory Specialist Services.
- Contribute to the reduction in patient length of stay, avoidable harms, and risk of readmission.
- Support identifying and managing patients reaching end-stage disease, establishing ceilings of treatment, end of life care decisions/discussions, advance care planning conversations.
- Delivery of training for trust colleagues, peers, and other health-care professionals. Facilitate and participate in training programmes relevant to the specialist service.
- Provide specialist advice for healthcare professionals working in other clinical areas.
- Support research studies & actively partake in clinical audit.

Working for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will provide you with lots of opportunity to develop your skills and further your career. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre and North Lancashire.

**As a Trust we are committed to**:

- Developing new roles and ways of working to ensure a flexible and innovative approach to staff.
- Real equality of opportunity.
- Continual development and learning for staff.
- Achieving a work life balance.

We are committed to the effective recruitment, retention and development for our employees, which is why we offer a great working environment, an attractive range of benefits and excellent opportunities for training and development.

The Trust is accredited as a disability Confident employer. That means we recognise our obligations to ensure people with disabilities are afforded equal opportunity to enter employment and progress if and where possible.

Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification for full details
1. Respiratory Nurse Service Specific
- To provide a comprehensive & holistic assessment of patients with Asthma, COPD, and Bronchiectasis who are referred for review as inpatients. Once deemed competent and skilled this will include outpatient within nurse-led and consultant clinics.
- Demonstrate a capability to engage in decision making in relation to the assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of patient care.
- Provide education and advice for patients with Asthma, COPD, and Bronchiectasis, devising and providing written individualised self-management plans as per national and international guidelines recommend. (Or alternative options if a written plan is inappropriate)
- Be prepared to undertake assessment and offer advice to patients with Interstitial Lung Disease, where inhaled or nebulised therapy or oxygen therapy are requested by the patients Consultant Physician.
- Support delivery of the Home Oxygen Service - Assessment & Review team (HOS-AR) by ensuring safe and effective assessment and arranging provision of Home Oxygen therapy for the inpatient population. There will be a requirement to undertake oxygen assessment and review in outpatient clinics as part of training & gaining competence in the above.

1. Home Oxygen Service - Assessment & Review (HOSAR) Specific
- Work as an integral member of the Home Oxygen Service
- Assessment & Review team (HOSAR) in the outpatient setting both clinics and home assessments. Working in line with the most up to