Job Introduction
Join our friendly team as a fixed term Band 6 Swiss Nurse at Ormskirk District and General Hospital.
You will work as a member of the Respiratory team to provide respiratory care in the community to patients with chronic respiratory conditions such as COPD, Asthma and ILD. The community respiratory service will be working closely with other local service providers, including GPs, Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust.
The team operates as a 7 day service working 9am - 5pm
Main Responsibility
As part of your role you will provide a community-based respiratory care service by:
- Coordinating and providing home Oxygen assessments for both new and follow up patients.
- Make effective use of resources, including the monitoring of Oxygen prescribing, concordance reports etc.
- Supporting the Community with specialist advice and care to people living with COPD/Asthma and other long-term respiratory conditions.
- Liaise closely with acute providers to identify respiratory patients who are being discharged and ensure all these patients are contacted by the service.
The Ideal Candidate
We are on the lookout for a passionate and caring nurse with the following:
• Experience at Band 6 in a respiratory setting relevant to the post
• Experience in caring for patients with a variety of respiratory conditions
• Experience in caring for patients within their own homes or community setting
• Clinical knowledge and skill relevant to the post in the acute management of respiratory care
• Driving License and Access to Vehicle
The roles are based in the community working with patients in their own homes including care homes, supporting patients who have been discharged back into the community on the Respiratory Virtual Ward.
If you would like more details about this role then please email rosalind.poole@hcrgcaregroup.com or debbie.curran@hcrgcaregroup.com.
Package Description
As a Swiss Nurses/ Virtual Ward Respiratory Nurses (Band 6), you’ll be part of our valued team at Ormskirk District and General Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Band 6 within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change
- 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 the majority 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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