Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Monday, Wednesday and one other day per week)
- Job ref
- 828-PROVIDE3478
- Employer
- Provide CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wren House
- Town
- Chelmsford
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Practitioner Respiratory
Band 4
Job overview
Associate Practitioner Respiratory -Pulmonary rehab, Spirometry and COPD and Oxygen
The Respiratory team is expanding and looking for a band 4 Associate Practitioner to join their team. We are looking for someone to assist the team in the service delivery and management of patients with Respiratory conditions within the Mid Essex area, by providing high quality evidence based care to meet the health and social care needs of the population. Involved in working across the service, running pulmonary rehabilitation classes, working with the oxygen team taking capillary blood gases, assisting with virtual respiratory ward and undertaking spirometry as part of the diagnostic service.
Main duties of the job
The aim of the team is to provide comprehensive respiratory care to patients in a community setting with an emphasis on people at risk of admission to secondary care, as well as assessing and treating respiratory patients, taking pulmonary rehabilitation classes.
The purpose of the role is to support the Respiratory team to ensure that effective, sympathetic and individualised pathways of patient care.
The successful candidate will be involved in Pulmonary rehabilitation, Oxygen assessment, Spirometry and assist with the virtual respiratory ward.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Eligible for NHS Pension
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Help with assessment for Respiratory Patients in clinics, in their own homes and at Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Responsibilities for ensuring patients receive high standards of care.
- Evaluating clinical care and acting upon the outcomes of evaluation.
- To maintain a portfolio of evidence of clinical skills, competency-based assessments underpinning theoretical knowledge demonstrating self-development and participation in continuous and post-basic education, as laid down by the NMC
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills with patients, family and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Work collaboratively across the health, social and voluntary sectors to ensure patients’ care is of a high standard.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS & EDUCATION
Essential criteria
- Higher National Certificate or Diploma or Foundation Degree or Diploma in Higher Education or NVQ level 3 with additional learning via undertaking short courses to Diploma level or Relevant demonstrable experience to Diploma Level.
Desirable criteria
- Up to date basic life support training
- Experience of pulmonary rehabilitation
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
WORK RELATED KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of the role of the associate practitioner in community
- Clinical skills and competency relevant to the role
- Knowledge of the management of Respiratory Patients
- Understand issues regarding accountability and delegation
- Able to assess the patients and plan the treatment with support from a regulated practitioner, if needed
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of computerised clinical systems
- Knowledge of national policies and local policies and guidelines
- IT skills to enter read coded data and run reports
SKILLS & APTITUDES
Essential criteria
- 2 years previous experience working within health care.
- Experience working under indirect supervision.
- Understanding of basic human needs- physical, emotional, health and social
- Experience working with children or young people
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates motivation, reliability and commitment to team working and the development of others
- Flexible, reliable and responsive to change
- Demonstrates an ability to value the opinions of others
- Demonstrates high level of self awareness, i.e. strengths and weaknesses, personal qualities and skills
- Willingness to undergo education/training for service needs
- Willingness to work towards professional and performance objectives (appraisal)
PHYSICAL SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Ability to assist others with the delivery of care
Desirable criteria
- Experience or willingness to learn capillary gas sampling
- Experience of spirometry
WORKING CONDITIONS
Essential criteria
- Ability to work with high patient turnover and a pressurised environment on a daily basis
- Ability to work virtually
COMMUNICATION AND VERBAL SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate information that requires tact and persuasive skills, or where there may be barriers to understanding
- Ability to communicate effectively via telephone and video
- Good interpersonal skills
MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL EFFORT
Essential criteria
- Concentration required daily, e.g. ability to deal with occasional exposure to distressing circumstances or emotional events
- Able to lead a talk to the group
- Ability to cope with occasional exposure to aggressive behaviour
- Ability to deal tactfully and empathetically with distressed or anxious patients and carers
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hannah Bannister
- Job title
- Team Lead for the COPD Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07580 911907
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