Advanced Home Ventilation Specialist
Respiratory Services
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, with community and home visit responsibilities across NHS Grampian
Band 7, 36 hours per week

Due to the pending retirement of the current post holder, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join the NHS Grampian Respiratory Service as a Band 7 Advanced Home Ventilation Specialist. We are looking for an experienced clinician with a passion for delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and advancing respiratory services. Applications are invited from Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and Clinical Scientists with extensive experience in a similar role. The successful candidate will become part of a forward-thinking multidisciplinary team providing specialist home ventilation care across the region.

Job Purpose
The Advanced Home Ventilation Clinical Specialist will provide expert clinical leadership and specialist care for patients requiring long-term home ventilation, including non-invasive ventilation (NIV), CPAP and related respiratory support therapies.

The post holder will work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary respiratory team to assess, initiate, review and optimise ventilation therapy for patients with a wide range of complex respiratory, neuromuscular, obesity-related and sleep-related conditions.

The post holder will act as the clinical lead for the Home Ventilation Service, providing leadership and direction to a small specialist team, ensuring delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care, whilst supporting service improvement, workforce development and quality assurance activities.

The role will support service development, quality improvement, patient education and professional development whilst contributing to the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care throughout NHS Grampian and also to patients from NHS Orkney and NHS Shetland.

NHS Grampian provides healthcare to more than 500,000 people across Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray. The Respiratory Service is a forward-thinking multidisciplinary team delivering specialist respiratory, sleep and home ventilation services across the region. Working in Grampian offers excellent opportunities for professional development alongside an outstanding quality of life, with easy access to the city's amenities, beautiful coastline and the Cairngorms National Park.

Key roles

• Undertake comprehensive specialist assessments of patients requiring home ventilation.
• Review, monitor and adjust non-invasive ventilation therapy within agreed protocols.
• Analyse ventilation downloads, oximetry studies, capnography data and other physiological investigations.
• Provide practitioner-led specialist clinics for patients receiving home ventilation therapy.
• Develop, implement and evaluate individualised treatment plans.
• Support hospital discharge planning for patients requiring home ventilation.
• Provide specialist advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Participate in multidisciplinary discussions regarding complex respiratory patients.
• Identify clinical deterioration and escalate appropriately.
• Provide expert input into the management of patients with chronic respiratory illness.

Additional Information for Candidates
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