Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 251-MED1643RES
- Employer
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Winchester Hospital
- Town
- Winchester
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/11/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Respiratory CNS – Tuberculosis (TB) and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA)
Band 6
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and flexible nurse to join our well established respiratory nursing team - for a 12 months secondment. This role will involve cross sites working on Winchester, Basingstoke and Andover hospital.
The main responsibility for this post is to deliver the Sleep (OSA/CPAP) and Tuberculosis (TB) service, although you will also be expected to provide general respiratory nursing cover.
Applicants will be expected to have a sound knowledge of respiratory conditions and treatment with recent respiratory experience within your role. You will have excellent communication skills and be able to work autonomously, seeking support as required.
You will need to be confident, have excellent clinical skills and have expertise in respiratory care, good communication skills and demonstrate a desire to provide high quality, specialist respiratory care and management to people with a Tuberculosis (TB) and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA)
Main duties of the job
You will act in a specialist role clinically facilitating, co-ordinating and providing the best possible evidence-based care to patients within the Trust diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA)
You will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), and you will inspire the TB and Sleep team to support and empower patients to understand, manage and improve their own respiratory health.
You will also co-ordinate the supply of respiratory audit data to the Trust and for National audit submissions to improve patient care.
There will also be a clinical role to provide service continuity.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- highly specialised clinical skills within respiratory medicine
Desirable criteria
- evidence of post graduate learning in respiratory medicine
Experience
Essential criteria
- significant experience of managing patients with respiratory conditions
Desirable criteria
- knowledge of tuberculosis treatment
- knowledge of sleep treatment
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to motivate self and others
Desirable criteria
- Highly specialised clinical skills across the relevant speciality
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marek Cholewczuk
- Job title
- Operational Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07342057859
- Additional information
You would be welcome to arrange an informal visit to discuss the role.
Jane Butcher - Clinical Nurse Specialist - [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Medicine Division
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