Respiratory Nurse Specialist

As a Specialist Practitioner you will work across the four pillars of advanced practice. You will lead and deliver Nurse led respiratory clinics for patients in our Brownlow Central practice. The focus will be Asthma management within our large student population as well as review of patients with other respiratory conditions such as COPD, Bronchiectasis and Pulmonary Fibrosis. You will also provide support to our homeless population with bi-monthly clinics.

Whilst working within your own sphere of competence you will work autonomously to proactively target high risk patients to provide an assessment of their needs and provide an appropriate management plan. The post holder will have a high level of expertise and experience in this field and the ability to manage complex cases including first contact assessment, examination and management of patients presenting with acute respiratory problems.

You will provide support and mentorship to our less experienced Practice nurses whilst also supporting in education to the wider team.

Main duties of the job

In line with targets within the Quality Outcome Framework and NICE guidelines, the post holder will review patients with asthma and COPD using relevant EMIS clinical templates to ensure assessments are completed and coded to meet QOF requirements.

Use of non- medical prescribing to review medications including maintenance therapy and acute self- management plans.

Assessment of inhaler technique and optimization of inhaler therapy, giving consideration to greener respiratory care such as low carbon inhalers, over usage, overprescribing.

Provision of a written personalised asthma/COPD action plan. Review of patients admitted to an emergency care setting with an acute asthma attack or exacerbation of COPD within 2 working days of discharge.

Review of patients admitted to hospital with symptoms of breathlessness related to any other underlying respiratory problem or LRTI. Ensure patients coded COPD have had spirometry performed to confirm diagnosis.

Ability to interpret spirometry testing as required. First contact assessment, examination and management of patients presenting with acute respiratory problems including potential Covid 19 symptoms.

Review patients diagnosed/suspected with long Covid. Administration of relevant health prevention vaccinations.

Provide home visits to ensure our housebound respiratory patients receive a timely review.

Request and interpret relevant blood tests and investigations.

Brownlow prides itself in being an exceptional employer. We have a dedicated staff wellbeing team and offer numerous staff benefits and incentives including protected study leave with financial allowance.

You will receive a 6-month mentorship/induction package. Brownlow is an organisation that is committed to equality and diversity, and we strive for our workforce to be representative and inclusive of the complex and diverse community which we are proud to serve.

With this commitment in mind, we actively encourage individuals who self-identify as having protected characteristics to apply for this role. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from: individuals with linguistic diversity, members of the LGBTQ+ community; members of black, minority ethnic, and minority faith groups; and from those who are disabled and / or neurodiverse.

We are mindful that we may not always be aware of structural and systemic factors, which might discourage or prevent certain minority groups and marginalised populations from applying to join our team. If you are aware that any such barriers do exist, please let us know so that we can work to overcome and dismantle these.

Although not required by law we strongly recommend that all staff have received all Covid vaccinations.

Extended access will form part of your contracted hours. If you are successful at interview and are registered with any Brownlow site, you are required to change practices and this will be a stipulate of employment.

£43,742 to £57,349 a year Band 7/8a dependent on experience