Highly Specialist Physiotherapist/Nurse

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The integrated community respiratory team provides a number of services – COPD (including virtual ward), Home oxygen, Pulmonary rehabilitation, and respiratory physio.

We are a team of nurses, physios, and skills assistant staff. We cover all of NE Essex, so access to a car and a driving licence is essential. The service runs 7 days a week, so there will be some weekend/Bank holiday working when induction and required competencies have been completed.

We provide clinic-based, class-based, and home-based care, with the aim of supporting people to have quality of life and be able to self-manage their conditions.

We are seeking an experienced respiratory practitioner to join our team. Ideally, you will have experience of community-based care. This role includes non-medical prescribing, so you should have completed (or be near completion) of this qualification.

Responsibilities:

• To work as part of the integrated team to deliver therapeutic input to patients with the aim of returning them to maximum independent living, within a stimulating environment actively promoting self-management on all activities of daily living.
• To be responsible for providing highly specialist assessment, treatment, and person-centred management for patients requiring respiratory care.
• Non-medical prescriber.
• To lead and develop delegated aspects of the community respiratory service including planning, co-ordinating, delivering, and evaluating the service.
• To train and develop the team members and other relevant staff members in providing optimum care for people residing in the community.
• Work with the Managers to provide a safe, effective, and high-quality service.
• Work closely with allied services such as primary care, secondary care, community nursing, specialist nurse and therapy services, palliative care professionals, adult social care, and the voluntary sector to develop care pathways to provide optimum care for people with respiratory needs.
• Provide day-to-day leadership of the team in the absence of the clinical lead.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics, and in patients’ own homes.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata), and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Contact Information:

Name: Helen Welham

Job title: Service Lead

Email address: Helen.Welham@esneft.nhs.uk

Telephone number: 07785 908131

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Health Care Provider

Industries

Hospitals and Health Care