Main Duties of the Role

• Provide specialist assessment, treatment and management of patients with respiratory conditions across community settings.
• Develop, implement and evaluate evidence-based patient management plans.
• Support timely intervention to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate safe care at home.
• Deliver community oxygen assessments, interpretation of results and oxygen prescribing in line with local and national guidance.
• Participate in the delivery and development of Pulmonary Rehabilitation services.
• Provide clinical supervision, mentorship and support to junior staff and learners.
• Contribute to clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and performance monitoring activities.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary and multi-agency partners to ensure safe and effective patient care.

Skills, Experience and Attributes

This opportunity would suit an experienced clinician who combines specialist respiratory expertise with excellent leadership, communication and partnership-working skills.

Essential Criteria

• Current registration with the NMC or relevant Allied Health Professional professional body.
• Evidence of continuous professional development relevant to respiratory care.
• Significant experience working within respiratory medicine or respiratory services.
• Advanced knowledge of respiratory assessment, treatment and management.
• Experience supporting patients with long-term conditions and complex health needs.
• Proven ability to develop and implement individualised care plans.
• Strong clinical reasoning and decision-making skills.
• Experience providing mentorship, supervision or support to junior colleagues.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage competing priorities effectively.
• Experience working collaboratively across organisational and professional boundaries.
• Full driving licence and access to transport for community visits.
• Flexible approach to supporting services across the wider organisation.

Desirable Criteria

• COPD Diploma, PACR or equivalent specialist respiratory qualification.
• Non-medical prescribing qualification.
• Community healthcare experience.
• Experience developing innovative or complex care pathways.
• Experience facilitating patient education programmes.
• Clinical audit and quality improvement experience.

For full details of the role, responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the attached Job Description.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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