Band 7 Sleep Apnoea Sister / Charge Nurse / AHP

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Sleep Apnea Sister in BHRUT Chest Clinic. You will provide a holistic patient centred service to treat individuals with sleep related breathing disorders, mainly obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and nocturnal hypoventilation syndrome. You will be responsible for developing plans of care to optimise patient and family's understanding of treatment, concordance with therapy and maximise patient functional outcomes and quality of life. Post holder will facilitate service development through developing standards of care, education and audit. Post holder will explain OSA and CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) therapy, mask/interface fitting and setting up for trials of CPAP and equipment for new patients and established patients. With support of the Lead Clinician, the post holder will participate in the co-ordination of the obstructive sleep apnoea service within the Trust, through policy development, audit and interdisciplinary working. You will
conduct scheduled nurse-led clinics in the Trust and follow-up patients requiring CPAP therapy. This will involve monitoring patient symptoms, treatment concordance and efficacy. Post holder will identify and address learning needs of patients, relatives and carers, empowering patients to make positive independent choices in regards to lifestyle to promote health and prevention of illness.

Main duties of the job

To provide a holistic patient centred service to treat individuals with sleep related breathing disorders, mainly obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and nocturnal hypoventilation syndrome.

To develop plans of care to optimise patient and family's understanding of treatment, concordance with therapy and maximise patient functional outcomes and quality of life.

To facilitate service development through developing standards of care, education and audits.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.