Clinical Lead Respiratory Nurse SpecialistNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the right candidate to join our Community Respiratory Service as Clinical Lead Respiratory Nurse Specialist based at Fartown Health Centre.

Our Community Respiratory Team delivers a community nursing service, Hospital at Home and pulmonary rehabilitation to individuals with chronic lung disease within the Greater Huddersfield area. The team comprises experienced Specialist Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapist, Exercise Physiologist and Health Care Assistants.

The successful candidate will have an extensive respiratory background and be passionate about leading high standards of care and management for patients diagnosed with chronic respiratory conditions.

Main duties of the job

You will provide clinical leadership to the nurses of our Locala Respiratory Specialist team to deliver tailored education for the development of self-management skills for patients and their carers. You will also provide management for the avoidance of unplanned and unnecessary hospital admissions as well as using skills to provide specialist respiratory assessment of patients as part of Hospital at Home supporting hospital discharges. The role will include leading the development of services and delivery of high quality nursing interventions.

Key elements of the role will include:

• Providing clinical leadership to the nursing team, delivering interventions to avoid unplanned and unnecessary hospital admissions for patients with a respiratory condition
• Providing clinical leadership into the delivery of Hospital at Home for patients with chronic respiratory conditions
• Ensuring high quality, evidence based nursing input for the patients with Chronic Lung Conditions in Greater Huddersfield
• Working alongside the Clinical Lead Band 7 Physiotherapist in delivering high quality care within the Community Respiratory service and the Pulmonary Rehabilitation service

Job description

For full details of the role and responsibilities please see the Job Description and Person Specification

About us

Welcome to Locala Health and Wellbeing - proud to provide NHS community healthcare services across Kirklees, Calderdale and Bradford. We help people have better lives - and you can too. Join us and you will get:

• Flexible working - We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
• Generous pension - We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%.
• Agenda for Change pay scales and holiday allowances - We are committed to the AfC scales for all colleagues and acknowledge all existing NHS length of service.
• Development opportunities - We have a nursing framework and offer a range of development opportunities in all roles.
• A say in how things are done - We are a membership-based, colleague-owned organisation. Join us and you immediately become a member with opportunities to be involved and have your say.
• Be part of an organisation doing things differently. One that delivers CQC-rated "Good" NHS healthcare services, as well as having a "positive social impact in local communities