Associate Respiratory Practitioner

6 months ago


Crewe, United Kingdom Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse/physiotherapist with an enthusiastic interest in Adult Respiratory Medicine. We are a seven day service consisting of a specialist team of Nurses and Physiotherapists who work primarily to meet the needs of patients with long-term respiratory conditions.

The role will include conducting face to face assessment and reviews of both long-term respiratory conditions and acutely unwell people within their own homes, hospital and a clinical environment.

We also provide the home oxygen assessment and review service for all adult patient regardless of diagnosis.

Post registration experience in a relevant field for a minimum of 3 years is required.

You will act as an autonomous practitioner within the specialist team providing both community care and in-reach into the acute trust. This includes a mixture of face to face and telephone assessment of people with Respiratory or long-term conditions. You will be flexible to meet the needs of a reactive service and should be able to prioritise your workload based on patient/service need.

You need to be able to perform under pressure within an extremely busy service.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

JOB PURPOSE
- To provide the specialist practitioner function in the delivery of specialist care to patients who have been referred to the Integrated Respiratory team.
- To provide specialist input into the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of chronic respiratory patients within acute, outpatient and community settings and lead in the provision and running of Oxygen assessment clinics.
- To be involved in developing and delivering high quality patient centred care and working with the associated clinical team to ensure this is incorporated within the Trust objectives.

SERVICE DELIVERY
- Works autonomously to manage his/her own caseload of patients whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Enables patient choice and involvement and initiates appropriate action.
- Co-ordinates patient care pathway and liaises across organisational boundaries.
- Plans specialised programmes of care and provides specialised advice to patients, relatives and carers.
- Ensures each patient is placed in the correct treatment pathway at the appropriate time and necessary investigations and treatments are organised.
- Recognised and responds appropriately to urgent/emergency situations.
- Provides clinical advice and support to healthcare professionals within and across organisational boundaries.
- Provides clinical advice in accordance with current evidence based practice.
- Participates in nurse/practitioner -led clinics, and multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Participates in case conferences in relation to future management or discharge arrangements.
- Ensures patients and their families are given appropriate oral and written information regarding planned care.
- Maintains accurate patient records and ensures all relevant information is documented in the patient’s medical and nursing records.
- Working towards becoming an independent non-medical prescriber (adhering to Trust policy) with the ability to initiate and adjust medication within your field of expertise.
- Participates in and undertakes clinical audit and contributes to development of knowledge within specialist field of practice.
- To participate in undertaking research in relation to specialist area of practice
- Undertakes evidence based practice and ensures dissemination of relevant research and best practice
- Supports and advises junior staff who may wish to und



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