Senior Nurse/Senior Physiotherapist

OverviewAre you a band 6 Physiotherapist/Nurse or band 5 looking for the next step in your career? Do you have community or respiratory experience? This role involves independently assessing patients with chronic respiratory disease in their own homes, community clinics, pulmonary rehabilitation settings and supporting patients within the Virtual Ward. You will provide specialist advice to primary care teams and other generalist clinicians, delivering expert management of symptoms such as chronic breathlessness, cough, airway secretions and supporting medicines optimisation.ResponsibilitiesConduct home oxygen assessments and review both long‑term and ambulatory oxygen prescriptions, including performing capillary blood gas analysis and interpretation for LTOT, as well as undertaking 6‑minute walk tests for ambulatory oxygen assessment.Work closely with a wide multidisciplinary team including Community Rehab, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics, support workers and administrators as well as wider system partners such as GPs, community nursing teams, acute clinicians and consultants to ensure seamless, patient‑centred respiratory care.Deliver pulmonary rehabilitation classes in a range of venues across North East Essex and may be asked to carry out home visits to patients for assessment/review within your scope of skills.Engage with people, put them at ease and use motivational skills; apply a problem‑solving/asset‑based approach to help people overcome barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation.Apply the principles of pulmonary rehabilitation and be familiar with, and able to discuss, the British Thoracic Society guidelines for pulmonary rehabilitation.Complete assessment, care planning, education and interventions to support respiratory management and liaison with other healthcare professionals.Work as an autonomous practitioner on home visits and as a lone worker on weekends, with support available from team and division colleagues when needed.Development & PromotionFor ambitious clinicians with less experience, this role can be offered as a developmental Band 6 position, with the expectation that you will complete the COPD Diploma module and achieve home oxygen competencies within 12 months. Upon successful completion, the role will progress to Band 6.Working HoursThe service runs 9am‑5pm, but due to expanding our pulmonary rehabilitation offer to meet the needs of the local population, there may be a requirement to work evenings (anticipated to finish before 8pm) during the length of this contract. We roster ahead so this will be planned.EmployerWe are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients own homes. We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.Benefits & SupportWide range of training and development opportunities and flexible working options.Generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offering a variety of services.Time Matters philosophy – improving the things we do and removing those that cause time delays for our staff and patients.Investment in time matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic, bringing what is widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT.RequirementsDue to the nature of community work & the community locations for our clinics, a driving licence & access to a car are essential.Join UsIf you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you. #J-18808-Ljbffr