Pleural Specialist Nurse

Job overview

Alongside your Senior pleural specialist nurse you will play a central pivotal role in the management of patients with pleural disease and bring a varied and valuable skillset. The specialist pleural nurse practitioner will play a key role in reducing length of stay and improving the quality of care & experience of care for respiratory patients. They will work across the following areas:

Patient assessment (including bedside thoracic ultrasound) in Accident & Emergency (A&E), Medical Assessment Unit (MAU), short stay wards and other wards within the hospital as required.

Respiratory ward/unit

Outpatient clinics including dedicated pleural clinics

Procedural units including dedicated pleural rooms

Telephone/virtual clinics

Patient & pathway navigation including email, telephone referrals, rapid access / hotline referrals, post-procedure care

All these areas focus on early assessment & intervention in patients with pleural disease, facilitating early supported discharges, admissions and readmissions avoidance and providing holistic care throughout the patient journey. Those taking a role as a specialist nurse will be supported by a Consultant Respiratory Physician & the clinical lead for the service.

This document describes the job role and offers expected competences to work towards to enable the nurse to become an effective pleural practitioner.

You will have the full support of your senior nurse ands Pleural Physicians.

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You will be a key worker providing support on management of pleural disease and optimising patients and health care professionals options available.

To work with supervision from the Band 7 to learn about the management of patients presenting with pleural disease.

Assist with the running of pleural clinics, assist medical staff with wound care/ stitch removal/ chest drain care

Order and assist with appropriate diagnostic tests

Act a resource for the management and drainage of IPC

Address answerphone messages that are not appropriate for the pleural navigator.

 action daily  triages, pleural tracking board review

Complete daily nurse-led clinics

To work with supervision from the Band 7 and medical staff to assess patients for IPC removal.

Order Chest x-rays/CT Scans

Competently perform a surgical scrub technique

Prepare the following weeks clinics including checking if CT scans have been reported, ordering chest x-rays and rearranging appointments if necessary.

Assist with the management/ running of consultant procedure list, including the procedure room set up and turn over

Assist within Medical thoracoscopy.

Work towards being Level 4 CiP Emergency Operator in Thoracic Ultrasound

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.