Respiratory Staff Nurse

• County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Respiratory Staff Nurse
• The closing date is 03 August 2026

This advert is only open to applicants who are currentlyemployed by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

CDDFT community services areoffering an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse to join the team as a9-month secondment opportunity covering maternity leave based in Bishop Auckland supporting patients living across Durham Dales, Sedgefield and Darlington suffering a variety of respiratory conditions including COPD, Emphysema, Asthma, Bronchiectasis and Pulmonary Fibrosis.

The post is part time,24.5 hours a week. The service is open Monday-Friday 9am 5pm, hours can benegotiated and flexible over 3 or 4 days.

Main duties of the job

• Manage a caseload of patients suffering arespiratory condition as part of the wider team supported by Respiratory Specialist Nurses.
• Patient education supporting self-care andmanagement including proactive exacerbation support, pulmonary rehabilitationand smoking cessation.
• Medication optimisation and inhaler technique.
• Support patient support groups, lower band staffmembers plus students.
• Contribute to creating improvement, transformationand innovation within the service to promote best practice.
• Commit to continuous personal development/lifelong learning byattending mandatory training, use of e Learning and adhere to all trust policiesand procedures.
• To understand owns role within the wider multi-disciplinary team andarticulate own developmental needs through attending clinical supervision, 1:1sessions, undertaking appraisal preparation and contributing to objectivesetting and personal development planning.
• Promote service development, improvements and quality expansion andefficiencies.
• Support provision for a high quality, value for money and effectiveservice.
• Effective use of IT systems to ensure accurate data recording.

About us

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You must be able to produce

ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham.

We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

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• Job responsibilities
• Clinical Responsibilities
• Toco-manage a case load of complex respiratory patients, under direction of thecommunity respiratory nursing team, across the community respiratory specialistservice, within clinic and patients home environments, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.
• To undertakeholistic patient respiratory assessment and review including social andpsychological well-being and progress treatment interventions and adaptinterventions, within set protocols, to progress treatment interventions and tomeet the changing needs of the patient.
• Develop, implement and evaluate patient treatment plans.
• Communicatepatient treatment plan changes to respiratory specialist nursing team.
• Understandbasic respiratory anatomy and pathophysiology and the function and managementof all respiratory conditions including mental well-being.
• Diagnosticspirometry performance qualification and registration either through The Association for Respiratory Technologyand Physiology (ARTP) or at certified ARTP standard, is desirable but not essential as training will beprovided.
• Performcapillary blood gas testing and oxygen reviews.
• Provide longterm condition care following the COPD pathway.
• Accuratelyrecord clinical data and understand its significance including heart rate andrhythm, respiratory rate, pulse oximetry, peak flow rate, and blood pressure.
• Complete effective record keeping which demonstrates the decision-makingprocess, care planned and given, as well as patient outcomes in accordance withtrust policy and legal requirements.
• Understandthe benefits of non-pharmacological interventions for respiratoryillness/conditions including smoking cessation, weight management andnutrition, physical activity and brief cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
• Understandmotivational skills and empathetic communication.
• Promotehealth and healthy informed choices.
• Reviewsmoking status, provide very brief advice and refer to appropriate smokingservice.
• Haveknowledge of the benefits of exercise and pulmonary rehabilitation and refer toappropriate local rehabilitation programs.
• Review andtrain inhaler techniques to patients, carers and other health careprofessionals.
• Participatein service improvement and development initiatives.
• Haveawareness, knowledge and implementation of safeguarding processes in relationto children, vulnerable patients and carers.
• Understand owns role within the wider multi-disciplinary team andarticulate own developmental needs through attending clinical supervision, 1:1sessions, undertaking appraisal preparation and contributing to objectivesetting and personal development planning.
• Haveawareness of the importance of research, audit and quality improvement andparticipate in the monitoring of standards of care, and audit ofnursing/therapy practice which is research based and supports the clinicalgovernance framework.
• Be responsible for the safe physical environment including equipment.
• Participate in and contribute to all activities associated with theteams response to current trends and changes within the NHS.
• Adhere to trust clinical governance and equality and diversity policythrough ethical decision-making.
• Promote and support effective implementation of all Organisational Policies and Procedures, and practice in accordance with.
• Support and promote a team culture which actively encouragesempowerment thereby supporting and facilitating change.
• Support the provision of a high quality, value for money and effectiveservice within available resource.
• Contribute to improving patient experience.
• Work collaboratively with the existing respiratory specialist teams.
• Possess good IT skills and use of systems.

Educational Responsibilities

• Provideand support training for the multidisciplinary team in the management of respiratorydisease.
• Toregularly attend and participate in training, peer support and clinicalsupervision.
• Support others to develop knowledge and skills.
• Promote learning/creation of learning environment.
• Service user/carer teaching.
• Supportlocal patient groups, including hospice and the interstitial support group, providing education.
• Developing service user/carer education materials.
• Acts as a resource for improving health.
• Research
• Involvement in any research and servicedevelopment.
• Involvement in audit and service evaluation.
• Supportthe implementation of local policies
• Proposechanges to working practices or procedures in own work area.

Person Specification

• Special Skills & Knowledge
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good organisational and problem solving skills.
• Understand respiratory anatomy and function.
• Knowledge of respiratory pathophysiology and respiratory conditions.
• Accurately record clinical data and understand their significance: BP, heart rate and rhythm, pulse, oximetry, respiratory rate and peak flow rate.
• Evidence of team working and care planning.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision.
• Ability to act alone in an emergency situation.
• Able to prioritise work on a daily basis to meet service demands.
• Confident in the use of email and basic IT skills.
• Participates in and provides clinical supervision.
• Special Requirements
• Valid full UK driving licence
• Statutory Registration
• Registered Nurse on part 1 of the NMC register
• Valid UK NMC PIN

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse.
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent level of demonstrable professional knowledge/experience.

Experience

• Up to date knowledge of professional practice.
• Knowledge of national and regional policies influencing respiratory disease.
• Evidence of team working.
• 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.

• County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
• £32,073 to £39,043 a year Per Annum Pro Rata
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