Job Introduction
The Band 7 Specialist Respiratory Nurse / AHP will work as an independent practitioner delivering high quality Respiratory Nursing care to a specific caseload of patients in the Swale locality, 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 provide education and health promotion. As part of the multi disciplinary team you will work alongside specialist consultants, GP's within the Community.
You will work between the hours of 09:00 - 17:00 Monday to Friday - with no weekend work required and no bank holiday work included.
Main Responsibility
As a Band 7 Specialist Respiratory Nurse / AHP you will
- Lead the nursing service
- Promote the health and wellbeing of people with Respiratory Conditions
- Provide a link between GP and Consultant led specialist teams
- Provide education and support both to patients and those who care for them
- Reduce unnecessary hospital admissions where possible
The Ideal Candidate
As a Band 7 Specialist Respiratory Nurse / AHP will:
- Be a Registered Nurse with a valid NMC Registration.
- Have at least 4 years post qualification experience at Band 6 or Band 7 of caring for patients with Respiratory conditions in a specialist nursing capacity in both Acute and Community clinical settings.
- Have evidence of post qualification Respiratory Care and Management including ARTP qualification
- Have experience in Working with patients in groups and delivering education
- Have excellent communication, IT, collaborative and motivational skills
Package Description
As a Band 7 Specialist Respiratory Nurse / AHP you’ll be part of our valued team at Sittingbourne, Kent
You will feel valued as a Band 7 Specialist Respiratory Nurse / AHP within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £41,659 - £47,672 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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 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 ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
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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