Respiratory Nurse Specialist

2 weeks ago

Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Brownlow Group Practice Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Respiratory Nurse Specialist to join our team at Brownlow Group Practice. As a Specialist Practitioner, you will work across the four pillars of advanced practice, leading and delivering Nurse-led respiratory clinics for patients in our practice.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver Nurse-led respiratory clinics to support the Practice Nurse team
  • Review patients with asthma and COPD using relevant EMIS clinical templates to ensure assessments are completed and coded to meet QOF requirements
  • Use non-medical prescribing to review medications, including maintenance therapy and acute self-management plans
  • Assess inhaler technique and optimize inhaler therapy, giving consideration to greener respiratory care such as low-carbon inhalers, over-usage, and over-prescribing
  • Provide a written personalized asthma/COPD action plan
  • Review patients admitted to an emergency care setting with an acute asthma attack or exacerbation of COPD within 2 working days of discharge
  • Review patients admitted to hospital with symptoms of breathlessness related to any other underlying respiratory problem or LRTI
  • Ensure patients coded COPD have had spirometry performed to confirm diagnosis
  • Ability to interpret spirometry testing as required
  • First contact assessment, examination, and management of patients presenting with acute respiratory problems, including potential COVID-19 symptoms
  • Review patients diagnosed/suspected with long COVID
  • Administration of relevant health prevention vaccinations
  • Provide home visits to ensure our housebound respiratory patients receive a timely review
  • Request and interpret relevant blood tests and investigations
  • Build links with and liaise with secondary care and community services
  • Work within national guidelines, policies, and procedures, as well as local protocols, supporting the development of these in-house as needed to ensure the patient receives the highest quality evidence-based care
  • Maintain effective communication with patients, carers, relatives, and members of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring information is shared appropriately
Person Specification
  • Personal Qualities
    • Essential
      • A complete finisher
      • Resilience and drive
      • Personal and professional integrity and confidence
      • Flexibility
      • Self-motivated and enthusiastic
      • Calm under pressure
      • Team player
      • Confident time management
  • Experience
    • Essential
      • Autonomous practitioner
      • Able to independently review Asthma and COPD patients
      • Able to order and interpret relevant blood results and investigations
      • Knowledge of clinical governance, confidentiality, data protection, and information governance in primary care
      • Ability to interpret spirometry results
      • Leadership in quality initiatives
      • Teaching/supervising/mentorship experience
      • Knowledge of the local and national health policy and wider health economy
  • Desirable
    • Experience of working within primary care
    • Experience of initiating protocols and clinical guidelines, implementing them, and evaluating their effectiveness
    • Willingness, if required/appropriate, to assess a pregnant woman with a non-pregnancy-related respiratory condition (in line with BGP policy/RCN guidance)
Skills
  • Essential
    • Clinical leadership
    • Change management skills
    • Advanced communication skills
    • Skills to support clinical work, research, and audit
    • Research, innovation, and audit skills
    • Driver with full license
Desirable
  • Advanced negotiation and conflict resolution skills
  • Working knowledge of EMIS
Qualifications
  • Essential
    • Registered Part 1 NMC
    • Independent/supplementary nurse prescriber
    • Specialist respiratory qualification - level 6 and above
    • Clinical examination
Desirable
  • MSc Advanced Practice

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