Respiratory Clinician

Job overview

The Havering Respiratory Team are recruiting  a respiratory clinican The post holder will be a Registered Clinician (NMC/HCPC) who will have significant Respiratory experience.

The post holder will be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of care relating to clinical areas. Responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage and deliver care to meet the complex needs for those patients. The post holder will be able to manage and support their peers, working on their own initiative and also an effective team member. They will be committed to working collaboratively, actively supporting and liaising with other health, social professionals and other agencies. 

To work within the respiratory team in assessing, planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating acute & long term care for the respiratory patient within the trust and across organisational boundaries.

 To provide a high standard of care to patients within the speciality who may have highly complex needs and to take an active role in diagnosing and managing patient care including undertaking spirometry, oxygen assessments and review for this purpose, in clinics and home visits. Also leading on Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes will be a major factor in this role.

As a Respiratory Specialist and a member of the multi-disciplinary team, contribute to the delivery of respiratory excellence and the continuous development of high quality community based respiratory services. 

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• Act as an autonomous registered practitioner, legally and professional accountable for ones own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct, trust guidelines and protocols.
• The post holder will hold a current professional registration number.
• Responsible and accountable for service/care delivery to clients.
• Autonomously assess and develop specialist plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients for a variety of conditions include chronic acute and palliative care patients. Continuously assessing and evaluating and acting on outcomes and initiating referrals to other agencies as required.
• Provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices promoting dignity, independence and quality of life.
• Responsible for patient allocation and staff rotas.
• Support new initiatives in practice.
• Influence others to ensure practice is supported by research and evidence based practice is sought through both literature and peer review.
• To work within the respiratory team in assessing, planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating acute & long term care for the respiratory patient within the trust and across organisational boundaries.
• Lead and run Pulmonary Rehabilitation Classes

Please see job description and person specification attached.

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Probationary Period 

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles.  Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.