Advanced Respiratory Specialist | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

We are recruiting for an Advanced Respiratory Specialist who share/s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The Integrated Community Respiratory Service (ICRS) service offers admission prevention and supportive discharge from hospital where appropriate; we work closely with secondary care colleagues and established community teams to ensure that the patient's journey is as smooth as possible. Home oxygen assessments are also part of the role. The core principle of the service is to put the patient at the centre of care, ensuring they are seen at the right time, by the right person in the right place. You will need advanced respiratory assessment skills, and will be expected to develop and deliver educational programmes in collaboration with secondary care partners to GP's, Practice nurses and the Integrated Community Teams to ensure best practice is the norm for the care of adult respiratory patients. You will need excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a multidisciplinary team. At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. To improve clinical outcomes for patients with Respiratory disease, offering a viable alternative to hospital care. The model puts community respiratory specialists at the heart of supporting primary care and the core community health and social care teams. The elements of the service include admission prevention, supportive discharge from hospital, education and training of health care professionals, patient's and carers, 'complex management' for those beyond remit of general practice and home oxygen assessment and review. Work autonomously and be responsible for own workload. Using your clinical experience and skills you will be responsible for the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of programs of care To liaise with other health professionals in the GP surgeries and HCT & CCG's towards improving the care of people with respiratory disorders. Lead in the development of the respiratory service in order to ensure that it moves forward in line with national guidelines

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.