Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 30 hours per week (Working Monday to Friday.)
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6927656
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital
- Town
- Poplar Grove
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Respiratory Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the existing Respiratory Nursing team at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking to recruit a Band 7 nurse with a keen interest in Respiratory Medicine. The main focus of the role will be working within the Respiratory Nursing team and management of the junior staff members alongside the Respiratory Nurse Practitioner.
A crossover to the the established CURE team and the delivery of the CURE project - Tobacco addiction within the Trust will also be expected.
The Respiratory Nursing team within Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a small but welcoming and knowledgeable team who have to be adaptable to the varied workload. Within the team we always uphold the trust values of we care, we respect and we listen.
This role is a 12 month secondment / fixed term contract at 37.5 hours to cover maternity leave.
Main duties of the job
The post holder has a key leadership and specialist role at a senior level to support the organisation in the delivery of care for respiratory patients and their families. This will be in accordance with the philosophy and standards of care within the specialty, ensuring that Trust values and beliefs are upheld.
This role will look to suit a motivated, enthusiastic individual, the ideal candidate must demonstrate their ability to work under pressure, be adaptable to change and thrive in an environment with a varied workload.
The successful candidate must have recent experience at working within the Respiratory Nurse speciality at band 6 with extensive knowledge to help deliver excellence evidence based care to our patients. Please see the attached job description for the essential criteria.
At present, the service provides cover form Monday to Friday. Flexible working hours are negotiable.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide a professional specialist clinical support to medical and nursing staff in relation to respiratory patients for inpatients on the wards and out patients within the Chest Clinic setting.
- Provide leadership that promotes patient focused care.
- Provide clinical leadership and line management of staff, ensuring the delivery of the highest professional standards through staff development and individual performance
appraisal/review. - Assessing respiratory patients within the inpatient setting, history taking, clinical diagnostic procedures performed or requested as appropriate eg, Mantoux testing, ABG’s, Chest x-rays and sputum tests.
- To aid and make clinical decisions utilising expert knowledge and clinical reasoning.
- The interpretation of ABG’s and application to practice to enable knowledge base to perform oxygen assessments.
- Review respiratory patients prior to discharge as requested.
- Provide a comprehensive and appropriate plan for the short and long term management of the respiratory patient.
- Lead the management of the Tuberculosis service within the Stockport area. Assess, support and manage the individual with tuberculosis and their families.
- Management of notifications, contact tracing and the Tuberculosis database.
- Present Tuberculosis audit findings at Northwest TB Cohort to promote best practice and to act as a representative of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.
- Provide expert nursing advice and support to other Health Care Professionals (HCP).
- Develop and deliver nurse lead clinic in Tuberculosis, Nebulisers and Asthma.
- Support the CURE team in the development and roll out of the trust smoking cessation project.
- Identifying training needs within the team and delivering education and training as required.
- To provide mentoring, advice and support to more junior specialist nurses.
- To demonstrate knowledge of, and adhere to professional, clinical, national and local guidelines.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £45.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of Tuberculosis case management
- Research and Audit experience
- Experience of chronic respiratory disease management
- Management of change experience
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registration
- Specialised Respiratory Module gained or working towards
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Communication training
- Smoking cessation course / module
- Non medical prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive Band 6 experience
- Evidence of leadership eg. appraisal / sickness management
- Experience of teaching to junior staff
- Experience of case management or team management
- Experience of leading nurse led clinics
- Evidence of MDT working
Skills
Essential criteria
- Independently assess respiratory patients and interpret findings
- Interpretation of ABG's, sp02 monitoring, spirometry
- Assessment of patients for home oxygen
- Autonomous practitioner
- Ability to formulate training / teaching courses
- Excellent organisational skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Pauline Holmes
- Job title
- Respiratory Nurse Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 419 4127
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