Oxygen Nurse Specialist

+ Hereford Home Oxygen Assessment and Review service (HOSAR), is responsible for providing clinical assessment, review and support, for all patients requiring domiciliary oxygen therapy in Herefordshire (and surrounding areas including Powys). This post will be out patient based, providing specialist assessment, review and advice to patients and their families, ensuring the delivery of safe and effective care for those patients requiring domiciliary oxygen. The post holder will:

• Preform oxygen assessments, assessing need for long term and ambulatory and
short burst oxygen, ensuring appropriate and safe prescribing.
• Review, manage and support patients on domiciliary oxygen therapy.
+ Provide specialist advice and support to both Primary and Secondary Care staff on appropriate and safe oxygen prescribing.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends. More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential. Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential." Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

This is a 12 months fixed term contract covering maternity leave. An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Respiratory Team at Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford, who are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 6, Oxygen Nurse to join their Oxygen Service at 30hrs a week. This is a fantastic opportunity to expand and enhance your specialist knowledge and skills within the Respiratory Discipline. The successful candidate will join the existing oxygen team to provide high quality oxygen assessments, initiation of appropriate domiciliary therapy and provide ongoing support, education and review for those patients and their carers' in Herefordshire and surrounding area, who requires domiciliary Oxygen Therapy.