The Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) team are looking to appoint an experienced nurse to join them in supporting the care delivery to this patient group. The role will require working 37.5 hours per week, which will be week day working. The team require a nurse who can work autonomously to support lifestyle and symptom control clinics, support the nurse and doctor lead ILD clinics and maintain the telephone support service that we provide for patients. The role involves caring for ILD patients throughout all stages of the ILD patient pathway.

The nurse will be experienced in working autonomously, but also able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team. The specialist nurse will have teaching commitments to both patients and their relatives.

Royal Papworth Hospital is proud to employ a diverse workforce who is encouraged to use their individuality to provide exceptional and personalised patient care. We believe that our strength as an organisation relies on our ability to foster an environment which encourages using our differences as a strength.

There are 2 Full-time posts to be filled.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical leadership, demonstrating expert nursing knowledge and advice to the multi-disciplinary team, promoting and maintaining standards of professional practice that enhance the quality of care for patients, carers, and relatives. The post holder would participate in and develop nurse telephone clinics, Attend Anywhere clinics and face to face ILD clinics. The role will involve using clinical skills, assessing, reviewing and monitoring ILD patients. You would be contributing to and attending the ILD multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTS) acting as patient advocate. You would assist with the management and monitoring of the ILD nurse helpline providing support, advise and education to ILD patients. Assist advise and educate junior team members manning the nurse helpline. Develop skills in assessing patients for both long term and ambulatory oxygen, selecting appropriate modalities and prescribing oxygen.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications and Professional Registration Registration with NMC
• Degree in nursing supplemented by post graduate diploma, specialist training, or short courses to masters equivalent or equivalent experience
• Teaching and assessment qualification or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Willingness to undertake clinical skills coursePost basic course in Respiratory/Cardio thoracic nursing or equivalent experience.
• Leadership Development Course
• Clinical skills course level 6/7
• Non-medical prescribing course level 6/7
• Experience of assessing and selecting suitable modalities and prescribing oxygen for patients
• Experience of working with patients with life-limiting conditions/palliative care

Desirable

• Post basic course in Respiratory/Cardio thoracic nursing or equivalent experience.
• Leadership Development Course
• Clinical skills course level 6/7
• Non-medical prescribing course level 6/7
• Experience of assessing and selecting suitable modalities and prescribing oxygen for patients
• Experience of working with patients with life-limiting conditions/palliative care

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-registration clinical experience.
• Knowledge and in depth understanding of the ILD patient pathway and managing patients who then require surgical intervention.
• Recent experience as a Band 6 in a management/leadership role.
• Audit and/or research in clinical area.
• Able to perform all nursing activities specific to specialty.
• Staff management & appraisal
• Able to problem solve, use own initiative and plan, organise and prioritise own and others' workload.
• Able to facilitate and support learning.
• Proven communication skills
• Knowledge of NMC Code of Conduct and professional practice guidance, clinical governance, and quality
• Awareness of broader issues in the Trust, the wider NHS, and an understanding of the professional nursing agenda
• Understanding management and leadership theory and practice, together with people management procedures
• Aware of cultural and social influences on health and of the importance of respecting diversity and differences
• Up to date knowledge in clinical practice specific to the area
• Treat hospital information confidentially
• Ability to undertake manual handling tasks.

Desirable

• Project management/project team participation
• Involvement in recruitment and selection
• Contribution to policy development and changes in practices
• Budgetary management
• Edward Jenner or equivalent such as Mary Seacole and/or a leadership course.
• Negotiating and influencing skills
• Coaching skills

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

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