Band 7 CNS/Specialist Practitioner (Community Spirometry)
Requirements
Applicants must hold current UK NMC or HCPC registration, relevant specialist experience and post-registration development, and demonstrate autonomous specialist practice and expert respiratory knowledge. They should be able to manage a specialist caseload, teach and assess colleagues, communicate effectively across teams, and contribute to audit, service improvement, and clinical governance.
Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist / Specialist Practitioner to join our Community Respiratory Service as the lead clinician for Community Spirometry.
This is an autonomous advanced practice role for a registered clinician with significant respiratory experience who is passionate about delivering high-quality diagnostic services closer to patients' homes. The successful candidate will provide expert respiratory assessment, undertake and interpret spirometry in line with national standards, and support the delivery of safe, effective, and patient-centred respiratory diagnostic pathways.
Working across community settings, you will be instrumental in developing and enhancing community spirometry services, supporting earlier diagnosis and management of respiratory disease, and improving patient outcomes across the local population.
This is for 18.75 hours per week.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
- Deliver high-quality respiratory assessment and diagnostic spirometry services across community settings.
- Work autonomously, managing a specialist caseload and providing expert clinical advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
- Perform, interpret and quality assure spirometry testing in accordance with ARTP and national respiratory diagnostic standards.
- Support the diagnosis and management of patients with respiratory conditions including COPD, asthma and other chronic lung diseases.
- Lead on service improvement initiatives, clinical audit and quality assurance programmes.
- Provide specialist education, training and competency assessment for healthcare professionals involved in respiratory diagnostics.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with primary care, secondary care and multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Contribute to the development of clinical guidelines, pathways and standard operating procedures.
- Monitor service activity, outcomes and performance indicators to support continuous service improvement.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC Register (Field dependent upon role) /HCPC registered
- Evidence of post registration CPD / Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to degree / masters level equivalent FHEQ Level 6 /7
- Recognised mentorship course
- To have or working towards a MSc/ Masters qualification
- To have or working towards advanced health assessment module -- where applicable to the role
- Non -- Medical Prescriber/ willingness to undertake - where applicable to the role
Essential
- Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC/HCPC
- Significant years post registration experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist/ Specialist Practitioner at B6 or above in defined or associated speciality Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level
- Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development/ competence.
- Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality.
- Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
- Experience of patient service user advocacy role
- Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients / relatives/ care staff
- Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality
- Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding
- Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
- Experience in service development Awareness of current research related to the speciality
- Awareness of current research related to the speciality
Essential
- Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of health care professionals, on a variety of complex and sensitive issues which require persuasive and empathetic skills.
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level and to manage / prioritise own workload, supervise / appraise and assess junior staff
- Competent in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required Ability to work under pressure across competing priorities
- Ability to undertake clinical audit, analyse information and develop robust measurable action plans to support improvement / change
- Evidence of ability to compile reports and documents for internal / external communication
- Knowledge of current evidence-based practice and ability to apply to service and policy development
- Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances
- Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Ability to communicate articulately and motivate others
- Evidence of flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development
- Ability to work a varied shift pattern where required
- Ability to act on own initiative
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Gemma Atkins
gemma.atkins3@uhb.nhs.uk
01214244766
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
Contract
Fixed Term
Duration
12 Month(s)
Working pattern
Part-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9018526
Job locations
Solihull Hospital
Lode Ln
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 2JL
Attachments
Job Description
Band 7 JD PS.pdf – 508KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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