Band 7 Respiratory Specialist Nurse

Job Introduction
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 like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• 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 where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction
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 license and access to a car for work purposes is a requirement.

Main Responsibilities
As a Clinical Respiratory Nurse at HCRG Care Group, you are responsible for providing specialist care for patients with chronic respiratory conditions like COPD and asthma.
Key responsibilities include:

• To 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.
• Assessing and managing patients, delivering clinical interventions, educating on self-management, and monitoring progress to prevent hospital admissions.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, support end-of-life care, and contribute to service improvements.
• Compassion, clinical expertise, and excellent communication are essential for this role.
• Provide care, advice, and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist 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.

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.
• Possess a Masters or equivalent postgraduate qualification in Respiratory care (certificate).
• Show evidence of CPD in Respiratory O2 Care and Management.
• Hold 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 excellent understanding of COPD, ILD, ACOS, and Bronchiectasis.
• Be able to carry out oxygen Assessments.

Please See Full List On The Attached Job Description.
A UK driving licence and access to a car is essential as this role is based in the community.

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're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re 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’ll 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.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices, and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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