Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist
This is a great opportunity to join the Respiratory Nursing team.
The role of Clinical Nurse Specialist requires a high degree of personal professional autonomy and making clinical judgments.
Responsibilities:
- To assess and review patients attending emergency department and who are admitted in the hospital with asthma and COPD according to the local protocols and national guidelines.
- To initiate home oxygen therapy in hospital or at home, and facilitate safe follow up reviews of these patients.
- To perform and/or interpret diagnostic tests including spirometry, bronchodilator challenge tests, FeNo and capillary blood gases in outpatient, patients' own homes and community hub settings.
- Discuss own patient caseload with relevant clinicians and at MDT.
- Contribute to National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme.
- Educating other healthcare professionals.
- To co-ordinate the specialty care within the Trust, including community clinics across Lewisham and home visits for patients who are unable to access the community clinics.
- To support patients with oxygen in terms of checking their ongoing needs, their safety and in the identification of risk.
- To become an essential member, and point of contact and resource for the multi-disciplinary team and patients and carers.
- Carries out diagnostic/therapeutic interventions as an independent practitioner, interprets, writes reports and commences further possible treatment on the basis of the findings. This will include spirometry, FeNo, lung function reports, and blood gas analysis.
- Carries out complex therapeutic/investigational procedures under indirect supervision of the Consultant. Ensuring that they are carried out using safe practice and under agreed guidelines/protocols to ensure that the highest possible standard is obtained based on competent clinical practice.
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- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
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- Improving the experience of staff with disability.
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
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Name: Mawuli Foli Awli
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Job title: Lead Respiratory Nurse
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Email address: yawoamawuli.foliawli@nhs.net
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Telephone number: 02083333210
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Aaron Canero: aaron.canero@nhs.net
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