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Trosolwg o'r swydd

• To assess and manage patients on home oxygen sometimes managing complex patients.
• To work autonomously within the service making clinical decisions instigating long term oxygen therapy and managing safety issues.
• Act as a clinical advisor for non-specialist ward teams regarding long term oxygen prescribing.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

• To assess new and follow up patients in the nurse led Oxygen clinics, and within patients own homes, in line with National British Thoracic Society (BTS) home oxygen therapy guidelines (2015)
• To ensure provision of holistic and rapid assessment of patients referred in line with the department’s targets.
• To perform capillary blood gas analysis in clinic and in the patients home, needs to be able to undertake the task and interpret the results to initiate, titrate or remove home oxygen therapy.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.