Specialist Respiratory Nurse / Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist

• To assess and treat patients who are on the oxygen pathway following relevant guidelines
• To assess patients with chronic lung diseases holistically and develop appropriate management strategies
• To prevent hospital admissions by providing ongoing individualised self-management plans to support optimal self-care in adherence to local and BTS/NICE/COPD guideleines
• To provide specialist advice to other health care professionals within the Community Health Locality Teams on the management of patients with chronic lung diseases
• To be able to recognise deterioration, or change in patients' condition and provide appropriate care
• To support and participate in the delivery of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme as required by the service
• To be responsible for ensuring the correct and safe use of equipment recommended by the Integrated Respiratory team by patients
• To ensure all data is collected and entered in a timely manner
• To participate in clinical audit and monitoring of the service to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of the team and comply with Clinical Governance requirements
• To assist with the management, education support and review of junior members of the Community Respiratory Team

Essential

• Significant experience working with patients with respiratory disease
• Experience in management of patients on oxygen
• Experience taking and interpreting capillary blood gasses for oxygen assessments
• Experience of working in the community
• Proven experience of assessing patients in a wide range of settings
• Demonstratable experience of managing own caseload and delegation
• Demonstratable experience of writing and implementing personalised care plans
• Significant experience of managing junior staff including students
• Significant experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Some experience of coordinating and delivering inservice training
• Participation in service improvement/ audits within a service to drive change

Desirable

• Experience of working in the acute sector
• Experience of working in a team where roles and tasks are shared accross professional working boundaries
• An understanding of multi professional care planning
• Experience of measuring and monitoring own and others performance
• Experience of measuring and monitoring clinical practice

Essential

• Excellent assessment skills
• Knowledge of national guidance for oxygen and management of patients with chronic respiratory conditions
• Good time management and organisational skills
• Ability to use initiative and work creatively and independently
• Well-developed interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal
• Able to motivate and persuade patients with impaired cognitive or physical ability
• Car driver with licence valid for UK and access to vehicle for work purposes

Desirable

• Complaints handling
• Experience of working to KPIs and service targets
• Use of electronic patient record systems
• Skilled negotiator and communicator in a range of environments and across complex teams

Essential

• Knowledge of our business
• Committed to our values and behaviours
• Committed to the 6Cs
• Flexible approach to meeting service and client needs
• Ability to remain calm and professional with patients who may be emotionally and physically distressed
• Ability to demonstrate empathy
• Assertive, credible and proactive with good problem-solving skills and pro-active 'can do' attidude
• Self-motivated and keen to learn and develop new skills for self and team
• Willingness to develop clinical and assessment skills into new areas
• Enthusiastic about working as part of a multi-professional team
• Ability to respond positively to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions in response to urgent clinical situations e.g. patients voicing suicidal concerns

Desirable

• An interest in service development that has a robust approach to considering the needs of the service stakeholders
• Ability to work in collaboration with other professional leads to create an integrated approach to patient care