Community COPD and Oxygen Nurse Specialist

The Stockport Community COPD service has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Registered Nurse/physiotherapist to join their specialist service for 22.5 hours a week.,

• Act as a resource and adviser promoting evidence based practice and best management of COPD across the organisation, providing a community wide service
• Work as part of the oxygen assessment service, providing nurse led assessment of, and ongoing support to patients with home oxygen
• Incorporate skills of independent prescribing.
• Utilise assessment skills such as history taking, chest auscultation, spirometry interpretation and blood results to make clinical decisions utilising expert knowledge and clinical reasoning.
• Work with the MDT to develop innovative and individual strategies to address unmet patient need
• Proactively manage patients using home based assessment and interventions, offering support to patients and their carers to improve and optimise the patients quality of life dependent upon their need
• Provide specialist skills to the clinical management and education of Stockport patients with COPD, working in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams in the community setting and liaising with the hospital team.
  
  We are looking for a dynamic, motivated individual who has a specialist interest in caring for patients with COPD and has the ability to deliver high quality, evidence based care. The successful candidate will work in both the COPD and Oxygen assessment service.
They successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and will work collaboratively with other teams. We are looking for a respiratory nurse/physiotherapist with the relevant experience within the speciality. If you have the experience and skills, with a passion for making a difference in patients' lives then we would like to hear from you.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods. We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service. Benefits we offer to you: o Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays o NHS pension scheme membership o Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further o NHS Staff discounts o Cycle to work scheme oSalary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt o Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice