Specialist Respiratory Manager - #145406

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust


Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Clitheroe
Contract type: Part time
The Respiratory/ Thoracic nurse service at Bolton NHS FT currently have a vacancy for a Specialist Respiratory Manager Nurse .

As the Specialist Respiratory Manager you will be providing overall management and leadership to a team of specialist respiratory nurses and health care assistants. The team includes nurses for COPD, TB, Lung cancer, ILD, Oxygen and pulmonary rehabilitation. The successful candidate will be managing the rota to provide care over seven days through clinics, home visits and inpatient referrals.

You will work as a Specialist Respiratory Manager supporting with the delivery of an expert service within the specialist area both from an inpatient and outpatient base. The post holder will support community patients from Bolton One as well as within the acute setting providing direct care to inpatients on the respiratory wards as well as inpatient referrals. The post does involve working within a multidisciplinary team with acute and community colleagues.

You must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and can demonstrate good leadership qualities to ensure our patients receive care that is safe, responsive, effective, caring and well lead. This role requires the individual to be innovative and enthusiastic in their approach to management and improving care/ outcomes for respiratory patients.

The role requires the individual to work as a Specialist respiratory manager, providing management and leadership to the specialist respiratory nurse team who cover care in within the acute hospital setting, community – providing home visits and also through clinics at Bolton One.

The successful candidate will also need excellent respiratory knowledge to support the nursing team with the delivery of an expert service within the specialist area both from an inpatient and outpatient base. The candidate will need experience working within a specialist nurse role / team, being able to work clinically within the specified field when required.

The successful candidate must be self-motivated, a team player who is forward thinking and is enthusiastic about the nursing profession. The successful candidate will support community patients from the Bolton One as well as within the acute setting providing direct care to inpatients and working as part of the wider MDT to reduce a patient’s length of stay and to support a safe discharge. The post does involve working within a multidisciplinary team with acute and community colleagues. The successful candidate must have a good working knowledge of both local and national respiratory policy. The position is for 37.5 hours per week (over a 7 day week) although management time will be allocated during the working week.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity, neonatal and care for children, and that it has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Alihemate Job title: Matron Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01204 390536

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