# Specialist Respiratory Nurse / Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist

**Company**: Bromley Healthcare CIC
**Location**: St Pauls Cray
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: £55,524 - £62,652 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Respiratory Nurse/ Respiratory Physiotherapist to join the Integrated Respiratory Team at Bromley Healthcare on an 11-month fixed term contract.

The role is mainly clinical, including completing triage, assessment, and review for patients with chronic respiratory conditions (COPD, ILD, bronchiectasis, etc.), long-term oxygen therapy, and ambulatory oxygen therapy. The team also has a prophylactic antibiotic pathway and a biologics pathway which is under development. Non-clinical duties include supervising junior members of staff and students, and facilitating ongoing training to the team.

**Main duties of the job:**

- Assess and treat patients on the oxygen pathway following relevant guidelines

- Assess patients with chronic lung diseases holistically and develop appropriate management strategies

- Prevent hospital admissions by providing ongoing individualised self-management plans to support optimal self-care in adherence to local and BTS/NICE/COPD guidelines

- Provide specialist advice to other healthcare professionals within the Community Health Locality Teams on the management of patients with chronic lung diseases

- Recognise deterioration or change in patients' condition and provide appropriate care

- Support and participate in the delivery of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme as required by the service

- Ensure the correct and safe use of equipment recommended by the Integrated Respiratory team by patients

- Collect and enter data in a timely manner

- Participate in clinical audit and monitoring of the service to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of the team and comply with Clinical Governance requirements

- Assist with the management, education support, and review of junior members of the Community Respiratory Team

**Benefits:**

- Pension schemes

- Discounted gym memberships

- Cycle-to-work scheme

- Access to home furnishings and electronics

- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

- Discounts at various high street retailers

- Eligibility for the Blue Light Card

- Opportunity to apply for low-interest personal loans

- Excellent lease car scheme

**Requirements:**

- Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy or 1st Level RGN

- Current registration with HCPC or NMC

- Significant experience working with patients with respiratory disease

- Experience in management of patients on oxygen

- Excellent assessment skills

- Knowledge of national guidance for oxygen and management of patients with chronic respiratory conditions

- Good time management and organisational skills

- Ability to use initiative and work creatively and independently

- Well-developed interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal

## Skills

### Required
- Physiotherapy
- Respiratory Nursing
- Oxygen Therapy
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Clinical Audit
- Data Collection
- Patient Assessment
- Care Planning
- Communication Skills
- Time Management

### Nice to have
- Post-Graduate MSc in relevant field
- Member of specialist interest group
- Practice Educator training
- Leadership training
- Experience of working in the acute sector
- Experience of working in a team where roles and tasks are shared across professional working boundaries

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