Band 7 Respiratory Specialist Nurse

Are you passionate about transforming care and optimising patient outcomes for individuals? Join our dedicated team across Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley, North Kent as a AFC Band 7 Community Clinical Specialist Nurse!

In this vital role, as a Clinical Specialist Respiratory Nurse, you will work as an independent practitioner delivering high quality Respiratory Nursing care to a specific caseload of patients, improving their quality of life, promoting excellence of health and independence within the community, preventing inappropriate hospital admissions, and facilitating early discharge, as well as providing education and health promotion.

The respiratory clinical nurse specialist will support the achievement of clinical and non-clinical performance in conjunction with the Clinical Service Manager.

An exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with primary care to support active case finding for COPD patients achieved with partnership working with the acute trust aligning to the neighbourhood health model.

Your base will be Livingstone Hospital, Dartford, with the requirement to travel across Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley. As this role is community based, a UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes is a requirement.

Main duties of the job

Main Responsibilities

As a Clinical Respiratory Nurse at HCRG Care Group, you are responsible to provide specialist care for patients with chronic respiratory conditions like COPD and asthma.

Key responsibilities include

• Lead on Clinical Governance for the service and support the achievement of clinical and non-clinical performance measures, in conjunction with the Clinical Service Manager.
• Assess and manage patients, deliver clinical interventions, educate on self-management and monitor progress to prevent hospital admissions.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, support end-of-life care, and contribute to service improvements.
• Provide care, advice and guidance in the treatment of complex respiratory conditions.
• Act as a specialist advisor across primary, secondary and tertiary care settings, supporting communication and care continuity.
• Contribute to service vision, growth and transformation, aligning practice with national guidelines and local healthcare strategies.

Please see job description for full list of responsibilities.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

Job responsibilities

Package Description

As a Band 7 Community Clinical Specialist you will be part of our valued team in our North Kent (Dartford, Gravesham & Swanley Service), receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £46,148 to £52,809 (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases and cashback and voucher offers.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture that encourages ideas to deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

The Ideal Candidate

A Respiratory Specialist Nurse will:

• Be a Registered Nurse with a valid NMC Registration.
• Have a minimum of 2 years Respiratory nursing experience working at Band 6.
• Hold a Masters or equivalent postgraduate qualification in Respiratory care (certificate).
• Have evidence of CPD in Respiratory O2 Care and Management.
• Have a recognised teaching certificate e.g. ENB 998.
• Have Non Medical Prescribing V300 or be willing to work towards it.
• Have knowledge of NICE, and an excellent understanding of COPD, ILD, ACOS, and Bronchiectasis.
• Be able to carry out oxygen Assessments.

A UK driving licence and access to a car is essential as the role is based in the community.

Person Specification General Requirements

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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.