Community Respiratory Nurse

Main area: Community Respiratory Nurse

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6

Contract: Permanent post within the Trust

Hours: Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, 37.5 hours per week (Travel across the Baywide area and between bases at Barrow, Kendal and Lancaster will be required)

Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 Dependant on experience

Closing date: 23/07/

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.

Job overview: The Community Respiratory Service in conjunction with the Morecambe Bay Respiratory Network are looking to recruit to a permanent Community Respiratory Nurse (Band 6) post. The post will cover pulmonary rehabilitation assessments and classes, as well as provide Respiratory Specialist Nursing care in the home setting, for those with severe, chronic, respiratory disease.

This role offers you a permanent contract with our Trust (UHMBT) and the Community Respiratory Service. As a Band 6 Respiratory Nurse, you will have previous experience working in respiratory (in General Practice, community services or hospital) and demonstrable post-graduate CPD relevant to the role.

Main duties of the job:

• To provide thorough holistic assessments, clinical examination and co-ordination and delivery of specialist clinical care interventions to patients, to support the management of respiratory symptoms and chronic respiratory disease.
• To be actively involved in your own respiratory CPD, engage in role-specific training and competency frameworks, and support students, colleagues, patients and families to learn how to better manage chronic respiratory disease.
• To work closely with the CRT/MBRN teams and wider MDT to improve the management and early diagnosis of respiratory disease across Morecambe Bay.
• To work closely with the CRT/MBRN team members to measure, audit and evaluate the effectiveness and impact of the pulmonary rehabilitation and domiciliary nursing service, at the patient and service level, engaging in a cycle of continuous service improvement.
• To work closely with system partners to embed the delivery of CORE+20 and local population health agendas into our Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme.

Working for our organisation: UHMBT Community Services provides care outside of the hospital setting, including community locations and people’s own homes. This role involves working across the Baywide area.

Person specification:

• Professional Nursing Registration (NMC Adult RN1)
• Evidence of relevant post-graduation CPD
• Demonstrates interest in this specific post
• Post-graduate nursing experience relevant to this post
• Car Owner/driver
• Previous experience working within a community setting
• Previous experience working within respiratory care

Please note that shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive.

If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard clearance plus a £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts.

Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.

We have introduced a new system called Pre-Onboarding, specifically to support you right the way through to your first few months in your new role with us at UHMB. This bespoke site has lots of useful information to help you settle into your new role including: what to expect from the recruitment clearances process, where to get a uniform, when you'll get paid etc.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.