Respiratory Nurse Specialist

Main area Respiratory Medicine Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent: Annexe 21 would be considered Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week (Monday – Friday 9-5 currently. Half day weekend cover roughly every 1:8 weekends.) Job ref 287-AMED-40-26

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Chest Centre, Aintree Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £47,810 – £54,710 Per annum, Annex 21 will be considered Salary period Yearly Closing 11/03/ :59

Respiratory Nurse Specialist

Band 7

Job overview

The team is based at Aintree hospital though do provide inpatient cover for home oxygen assessments at Southport DGH too.

Inpatient assessments and outpatient clinics for patients with Asthma, COPD, Bronchiectasis – including optimisation of treatment, and promoting self-management.

Home oxygen assessments for both inpatients and patients in the community too – including domiciliary visits.

The role provides 7-day cover, with weekend working on (roughly) a 1:8 basis.

We work closely with the medical teams and therapy teams in the hospitals and have close links with other community respiratory services too.

We support team members to learn and develop knowledge and skills – with regular teaching and opportunity to apply for university modules and stand-alone study days as our rota allows.

We are looking for an additional CNS with excellent communication skills, enthusiasm and a keenness to provide gold standard care to join our team. A high level of clinical decision‑making is required, therefore sound theoretical and practical knowledge relating to this specialty is required. The candidate should have at least 2 years’ experience as a Band 6.

Applicants must also have a valid UK driving license and access to a car.

Main duties of the job

• Assessment for Home Oxygen in line with British Thoracic Society Guidelines, and local policy.
• Ability to review patients with chronic lung conditions including Asthma, COPD and Bronchiectasis – and provide education, self management advice, appropriate lifestyle advice and advise on optimisation of treatments. This happens in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Education for staff at a variety of levels.
• Ability to give advice via phone – to HCPS, patients and their carers.
• Participate in audit, and a willingness to be open to change and improvement of the services we provide.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities – from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical.

• To perform comprehensive assessment of a patient’s needs (including clinical examination, and sampling arterial blood gases); then plan, implement and evaluate care delivery accordingly.
• Ensure effective lines of communication within the multidisciplinary team to achieve an optimal level of service to respiratory patients, their families and carers.
• Liaise effectively with community matrons, GP’s and other teams to enhance the respiratory patients care pathway.
• Undertake nurse led clinics in Asthma, COPD, Bronchiectasis and Oxygen; providing expert advice, education and support to patients, their families and/or carers regarding their ongoing care and condition.
• Understands and recognise your own limitations and refers to a more experienced specialist/ clinical lead when required, including presenting patients at MDT.
• Care for patients from diagnosis through to end stage disease. Ability to display advanced communication skills to patients, their relatives and members of the public with empathy and reassurance.
• Promote better health expectations for patients with respiratory disease and encourage strategies for healthier lifestyles- using the ‘every contact counts’ approach.
• Request and interpret laboratory tests, respiratory function tests, sputum test etc. when assessing patients care needs.
• Perform advanced clinical skills in assessment &/or diagnosis &/or treatment.
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.
• Involve patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care and development of services.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives, and professionals across health and social services.
• Provide specialist, expert clinical knowledge to clinical colleagues, patients and carers/relatives.
• Contributes to the provision of specialist protocols and policies as required.
• Responsible for organising own workload within the requirements of the specialist team activities and work plan.
• With the wider team – evaluate service delivery, identify areas for improvement and initiate change.
• Monitor health, safety and security of self and others and promote best practice in Aintree Chest Centre.

Education and Development.

• Identify learning needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of education to meet identified need.
• Provides teaching in practice to other to other staff and students through clinical supervision/facilitation.
• Manage and support junior colleagues within the department.
• Provide clinical and academic support for nurses undertaking a specialist programme of study.
• Participate in the education of pre and post registered nurses, and curriculum development where appropriate.
• Ensure own compliance and compliance of others with regard to mandatory training requirements.

Clinical Governance.

• Identify need for, and undertake, research & clinical audit , in order to improve effectiveness of patient care and service delivery.
• Participate in the development and implementation of policies, procedures and guidelines relevant to own area of work.
• Promote patient and public involvement activities in the specialist area, leading to service improvement.
• Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights.

• Maintain active status on NMC register
• Act always in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct and guiding documents
• Adhere to Trust Policy and Procedure.
• Maintain up to date skills and knowledge and maintain awareness of professional issues.
• Maintain a professional portfolio.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Post-basic specialist qualification relevant to specialty
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Research qualification
• Masters modules

Experience

• Demonstrable Post-reg experience
• Evidence of undertaking the relevant speciality successfully at Band 6
• Extensive clinical experience
• Evidence of the application of management/leadership skills and managing staff
• Experience as a specialist nurse
• Participation in research

Knowledge

Skills

• Teaching/assessment skills
• Organisation and negotiation skills
• Evidence of audit and change management ability
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Evidence of leading and facilitating change

Other

• Evidence of continued professional development
• Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team
• Flexibility
• Able to travel between sites
• Recognition of own limitations
• Assertive and confident
• Diplomatic
• Personal and professional maturity

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidatesapplying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work‑life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under‑represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16‑24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website –

This organisation has a zero‑tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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