Community Respiratory Practitioner/Nurse

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Community Respiratory Practitioner/Nurse

The closing date is 18 September 2025

The Trust has an exciting opportunity for a band 6 nurse/therapist to join the community respiratory team at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust and to support the virtual ward agenda across both sites.

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and enthusiastic respiratory nurse/therapist who ideally has an interest in working in respiratory medicine. The service provides specialist interventions for a range of respiratory conditions including asthma, COPD, ILD, and Bronchiectasis. Working closely with the Pulmonary rehabilitation service to ensure all elements of treatment are adhered to. The team also deliver the home oxygen service throughout Calderdale both in a clinical environment and in the patient\’s own homes.

The service continuously looks at new ways of working to support the population of Calderdale and actively works with system partners to improve services for those with respiratory conditions in Calderdale.

The successful applicant will be expected to have or the willingness to work towards a diploma/degree level qualification in respiratory disease.

The applicant will be able to deliver high quality care and have decision-making skills working independently and as part of the wider multidisciplinary team. The community respiratory service is committed to the continuing professional development of its staff to support patient outcomes and high level of patient satisfaction.

Main duties of the job

• Act as a specialist resource for adult respiratory patients to assess individual physical and psychological needs and observing the principals of holistic care when planning treatments.
• To work autonomously managing own clinical caseload and to provide in reach to Calderdale Royal Hospital to support the virtual wards, admission avoidance and covid 19 early supported discharge scheme.
• Use relevant specialist training, knowledge, and expertise to clinically diagnose, assess and deliver evidence-based care through education and advise on self-management.
• Work collaboratively with the palliative care teams to develop advanced care planning for patients at the end of life.
• Monitor indicators of respiratory disease, anticipating possible decline and proactively managing this, to ensure optimum wellbeing and independence.
• Collaborate with team members to devise protocols, guidelines and policies.
• Act as a focal point for support and advice offering specialist advise whilst supporting respiratory patients and their carers to navigate the patient pathway.
• Provide telephone support, assessment and advice to people with respiratory disease on their management in accordance with national and local guidelines and practice.
• To participate in nurse led clinics.
• To assess and implement patients need for long term oxygen therapy and to liaise with the oxygen company when prescribing and ordering oxygen for respiratory patients.

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients\’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children\’s and young people\’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

• To support the delivery of education to the wider community nursing teams and primary care colleagues.
• Effective links to the existing community and specialist respiratory services including other practitioners such as General Practitioners, Practice nurses, respiratory physicians, community/practice pharmacists, community matrons and community respiratory clinics.
• Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
• To support the vision, purpose and objectives of the community respiratory services.
• To support the Nurse manager of the community respiratory service to ensure the service achieves their quality, performance, productivity, financial and contracting requirements.
• Contribute to the continued development of the community respiratory service through effective collaboration with peers and partners across all community and specialist units.
• To be accountable for the management of patients in your care, to ensure a high standard of evidence based clinical care is maintained from the very start of their journey to end of life care.
• Support the development of integrated patient pathways including delivering care in clinics and domiciliary settings.
• Ensure compliance with agreed governance systems across the service.
• Ensure all electronic based patient records are kept up to date inline with the trusts record keeping policy.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• First level registration with NMC or AHP
• Professional qualification in respiratory care
• Nurse prescribing Qualification or willingness to work towards
• Accredited Spirometry Training or willingness to work towards
• Teaching Qualification

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Experience of partnership and multidisciplinary working
• Evidence of a understanding of local and national policy development for respiratory services.
• Understanding of working within a community setting
• Good clinical reasoning skills with complex respiratory patients
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibility of others
• Ability to maintain legible and accurate records
• Awareness of relevant national guidance legislation, NSF/local and national initiatives Recent relevant respiratory/acute/community experience demonstrating the ability to assess, diagnose, treat, and evaluate care with complex respiratory patients
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Competent in caseload management

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Demonstrates positive attitude and behaviours
• Ability to communicate effectively with people with complex difficulties and complex situations.
• Recognise own limitations and have willingness to share and learn from others
• Excellent team player
• Ability to make decisions and problem solve when dealing with routine situations
• Ability to organise own work and caseload
• Access to transport to undertake multiple visits to patient\’s place of residence

COPD/asthma qualification or willing to work towards

• COPD/asthma qualification or willing to work towards

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum, pro rata