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Are you a Physiotherapist or Nurse with a Respiratory interest?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Respiratory Specialist to join our community Respiratory Care Team. We assess and treat adults living in the London borough of Richmond. This post is open to both Physiotherapists & Nurses.

If you are looking to develop your respiratory skills or perhaps you want a change of scenery, then look no further! Our community team can provide you with exciting opportunities for professional development including access to external training. We pride ourselves on our supportive and friendly working environment.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist respiratory interventions
• Complete specialist respiratory assessments including blood gases and spirometry. Training and competencies provided for these service specific skills
• Deliver Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes
• Assess for and prescribe Home Oxygen therapy
• Work collaboratively with Primary, Community and Secondary care
• Manage a caseload of patients
• Travel is an integral part of the role, it is essential that you are able to travel to a variety of clinic and community sites and to patients homes within Richmond borough during the working day.

About us
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust has four key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:

Compassionate- We treat everyone with kindness, understanding and empathy

Inclusive- We are respectful, fair and open, valuing everyone's unique contribution

Collaborative-We work together across our teams and with our partners and are helpful, positive and supportive

Inspiring- We strive for the best for patients, communities, staff and partners and are always learning and improving

Person Specification

Experience of Pulmonary Rehab

• Essential: Delivered / provided PR service, Aware of importance of PR with COPD management
• Desirable: Experience / knowledge of PR outcome measures; ISWT, strength testing, Aware of PR accreditation scheme, Aware of / involved in PR component of NRAP (National Respiratory Audit Plan)

Mode of transport for community visits

• Essential: Car driver with access to car for work purposes
• Desirable: Proposed mode of transport (other than car) for community work

Service development

• Essential: Previous involvement with QI projects, Involvement with service development
• Desirable: Completed AI training (online, white belt, yellow belt etc)

Experience of COPD / Resp pts

• Essential: >3 years experience as Band 5 or above in medical / critical care setting, Worked with COPD / resp patients in community / primary settings, Aware of principles of COPD & other respiratory LTC's management
• Desirable: Encountered COPD / resp patients in acute / other settings

Experience of Home 02 patients

• Essential: Aware of the role of oxygen therapy within respiratory management
• Desirable: Previous experience of assessment for Home 02 (walk test, blood gases), HOOF prescriber, Understanding of LTOT / AMBOT - when indicated, how delivered etc

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).