Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Camden COPD & Home Oxygen Service as a Band 7 Physiotherapist or Nurse.
The Camden COPD & Home Oxygen Service is a community-based multidisciplinary team providing specialist respiratory care across a range of pathways, including home oxygen assessment and review, domiciliary COPD management, COPD clinics, pulmonary rehabilitation and community outreach services.
The successful candidate will work primarily within the Home Oxygen Service Assessment and Review (HOSAR) pathway, delivering specialist oxygen assessments, reviews and ongoing management for patients with complex respiratory conditions.
Main duties of the job
- Responsibility for the smooth running of the HOSAR pathway on a day-to-day basis.
- Report to the Clinical Lead and Manager and team as required.
- Oxygen assessment and review in clinic setting and patients' homes, including capillary blood gas sampling and interpretation.
- Performing all types of oxygen assessments, including ambulatory oxygen assessments.
- Organise and provide service-specific in-service training (IST) and training to patients and stakeholders as required.
- Develop and implement Camden HOS-AR protocols.
- Work with all stakeholders to promote safe and effective oxygen prescribing within guidance.
- To communicate and present cases at the weekly team caseload and/or MDTs and support less experienced staff members with this process.
- Collecting, analysing and reporting service data and KPIs.
- To represent Camden at relevant internal and external stakeholder meetings.
- To ensure that high standards of clinical practice and patient care are maintained and to ensure that other clinicians in the team do likewise.
- Supporting the delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation, spirometry, domiciliary COPD management, outreach clinics and other respiratory pathways as required.
- Performing Clinician of the Day duties, including managing acute patient queries, responding to clinical advice requests, and reviewing all clinical referrals and communications received via the team inbox and electronic patient record systems.
Person Specification
- BSc Physiotherapy/BSc Nursing (or equivalent).
- HCPC/NMC registered.
- Willing to work towards Masters Level - relevant respiratory courses and training already undertaken or planned.
- Experience of working in a health economy similar to the UK.
- Working at Band 6 or above in Respiratory Care (HOSAR, Pulmonary Rehabilitation +/- General COPD/respiratory medicine management).
- Experience of working with other agencies.
- Previous experience of delivering training/supervision.
Benefits
- Competitive salary: £58,133 to £65,261 a year per annum incl. HCAS.
- Permanent full-time position.