£280 5 Days A week 6 Month Contact. Band 7/6 Respiratory Specialist Nurse/Physiotherapist


Staff Partners are currently looking for Band 6/7 Respiratory Specialist Nurse/Physiotherapist , with a passion for delivering outstanding care.  9 Hour Days start time 8:30-17:00 1 Hour lunch break.

Our client provides a service in South West London – Merton



Main Duties:

• To use specialist respiratory knowledge and skills to safely identify patients with an acute respiratory exacerbation that are suitable for admission avoidance and self-management care plans using the NICE guidance for safe care planning and home management.

• To undertake comprehensive assessments of patients with suspected respiratory disease, including history taking, physical examination, spirometry, formulating individualised management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning.

• To undertake comprehensive assessments of complex respiratory patients with co-morbidities, including physical examination, and to develop treatment plans for patients using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning.

• To work with the team in developing and implementing specialist care programmes, including home oxygen therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, psychological interventions and medication reviews, adhering to evidence based guidelines.

• To be able to perform capillary/arterial blood gas test and spirometry or willing to train. 

• To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical tests to form an accurate management plan and assess suitability for the appropriate services to maintain a patient at home or ensure safe transfer of care to the community and develop comprehensive discharge plans.

• To work in a variety of clinical areas including patient’s homes, outpatient clinics and health centres.

• To work as an autonomous practitioner accepting clinical responsibility for a specialised caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.

• To provide emotional support to patients and family/carers to cope with life limiting respiratory conditions, recognising when patients are entering the terminally stages and communicating this to the patient and family/carer in a sensitive and empathic way. Ensuring appropriate level of involvement from palliative and end of life services.

• Develop specialist end of life treatment plans which includes patient’s wishes, management of unpleasant respiratory symptoms, particularly breathlessness, anxiety and agitation are effectively managed using specialist skills including active cycle of breathing, sputum clearance techniques, relaxation techniques, medication and positioning. 

• To demonstrate a strong working knowledge of guidelines for best practice, competence in physical assessment skills and treatment of complex respiratory patients.

• To provide safe practice to patients within and be able to identify acute deterioration and take appropriate action.

• To liaise with and give specialist advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) regarding the medical management of patients with respiratory problems, have knowledge of disease management pathways within secondary and primary care and refer on where appropriate.

• To be contactable throughout the working day via the mobile phone system and to be able to immediately change planned activity without prior knowledge, sometimes in order to respond to emergency situations.

• To maintain accurate, comprehensive documentation, ensuring patients care plans / documentation is up dated to reflect changes in clinical needs, in line with legal and departmental requirements, and to communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines and patients in the form of reports and letters.

• To take responsibility for health and safety aspects of your work and implement any policies, which may be required to improve the safety of your work area including prompt recording and reporting of incidents to senior staff.

• To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out duties and to adhere to departmental policy for safety and maintenance, including competence to use equipment and to ensure its safe use by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice.

• To be responsible for the evaluation of new equipment.

• To carry out risk assessment within the service, own patient caseload, equipment and environment on a daily basis (health & safety and clinical) and to minimise risk within the team.

• To gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.

• To comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures.

• Participate in the on call rota

You will have…

• To communicate effectively with relatives, carers, patients and other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of the specialist respiratory service, to ensure understanding of condition and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care

• To communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing and allied health professionals and other colleagues to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated multi-disciplinary service. This will include case conferences, discharge planning and joint working

• To provide specialist advice on the complex management of respiratory patients to colleagues working in other clinical areas

• To provide specialist education in the form of teaching, lectures and workshops

• To deal and respond to complaints in accordance with policies and procedures and learn from them

• To instigate and maintain communication flows both within the trust and primary care regarding on-going care for patients. Communication may be face to face, via e-mail, telephone or in written form

Produce a written annual report including patient-related outcomes and make recommendations for practice development.




 
Why work with Staff Partners:

Excellent hourly rates

Weekly pay

As many shifts as you would like

Be the first to hear about shifts – we are preferred suppliers to many hospitals/sites

Block bookings available

A free fast track and very easy registration process

Your own specialist consultant

Training and support

Excellent referral bonus
 

For more information or to have a confidential chat on how I could help please feel free to contact George Hlavaty anytime

George Hlavaty

Recruitment Consultant

Ground Floor Annexe, Widbury Barns, Widbury Hill, Ware SG12 7QE