Junior Clinical Nurse Specialist - Home Oxygen

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chester

Junior Clinical Nurse Specialist - Home Oxygen

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Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chester

  • Part time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

, 13 Nov | Get your application in now before you're too late!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 290da7de83af4cb2ab0037190cf5a288

Full Job Description

You will work closely with all members of the Respiratory multi- disciplinary team, contributing to weekly MDT meetings, supporting and independently delivering both new diagnosis, review clinics, home assessments and developing nurse led clinics. You will be liaising and working alongside other care providers internally and externally including CWP and the Community Home Oxygen team.

The Home Oxygen Team are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and self-motivated Registered Nurse to the Respiratory Care Team within the Urgent Care Division.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

  • The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
  • Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
  • Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
  • The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000. The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

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