Hybrid Cns Respiratory

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Nurse with a passion for Respiratory Nursing. The position is a Hybrid role, working with both lung cancer patients and general respiratory patients. You will be responsible in providing high standards of specialist nursing skills as part of a multi professional team to patients attending the Respiratory department or who are inpatients.

To support and develop the service through evidence-based practice to ensure clinical effectiveness.

The clinical nurse specialist is responsible for their own clinics, which include face to face, video, and telephone clinics. The Respiratory department runs a sleep service for both Wiltshire and Dorset, NIV clinics, Oxygen, Asthma, Lung Cancer service, MDT and an inpatient service seeing patients with a wide range of respiratory diseases.

The post holder is expected to provide and enhance patient care through continuous professional development, facilitated through the knowledge and kills framework.

To act as a mentor and role model to others.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.