Job summary
- Main area
- Community Respiratory Team
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-SCCS-1531
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £30,279 - £33,116 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Respiratory Associate Practitioner
Band 4
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The Integrated Cardio-Respiratory Service is a combined service working across hospital and community pathways, providing community services in clinic and home-based settings. The service is a consultant led multidisciplinary team providing a range of service including diagnostic clinics, COPD and asthma disease optimisation, exacerbation management, hospital discharge, home oxygen, pulmonary rehabilitation, dyspneoa management and primary care education and support.
The aim is to provide a more accessible, efficient, cost-effective service integrating respiratory services across secondary and primary care, to enable continuity of care and give respiratory patients the opportunities to have access to care closer to their homes. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to work cooperatively as part of the multi-disciplinary team supporting colleagues in looking after patients and promoting respiratory health within ICHNT and the surrounding community. The role will entail supporting diagnostic spirometry (following appropriate training), the pulmonary rehabilitation programme and colleagues in clinics and in the community, patient assessment and patient education.
Main duties of the job
- The successful post holder will be required to support the pulmonary rehabilitation team in the delivery of the pulmonary rehabilitation programme. They will carry out rehabilitation assesments and support safe and evidenced based exercise prescription within the classes.
- The post holder is required to be competent and confident in communicating with patients and NHS staff in a professional, caring and considerate manner. They must also be able to adapt their communication to meet the verying needs of service users.
- This is an ever adapting service and the post holder needs to be able to adapt to accommodate changing working patterns and demands as the service requires. This will include working in a variety of locations across the boroughs of Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster.
- The successful candidate will also complete spirometry training and lead on spirometry and FeNO clinics, alongside their rehabilitation commitments.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Certificates of competence in performing basic clinical observations and procedures
- English Language GCE/GCSE or equivalent
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel/Word)
Desirable criteria
- Healthcare Qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 or 12 months experience at Band 3 or equivalent.
- Six months experience in an Outpatient Clinic Setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience of respiratory +/- community care
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills.
- Able to problem solve
- Able to follow precedent, policies and procedures and recognise when to escalate issues to a manager.
- Good IT skills
- Able to prioritise and meet deadlines.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced IT skills use or Excel
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Maguire
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Respiratory Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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