Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead a new Specialist Ventilatory Community Home Visits Service for the Respiratory Support and Sleep Centre team (RSSC). The role has been provisionally banded as an 8a role.
The RSSC is one of the largest respiratory support units in the UK providing non-invasive ventilation for patients with lung disease and neuromuscular disorders. Currently the team supports over 1500 patients on long term home ventilation.
The RSSC team are a dynamic, multidisciplinary team who work collaboratively, demonstrating compassion in the drive for excellence.
Main duties of the job
The community service will be provided for an identified group of patients who, due to complex care needs are no longer able to attend Royal Papworth Hospital for specialist ventilatory review. The post holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care, which may include highly complex respiratory presentations.
We are seeking for an enthusiastic Advanced Clinical Practitioner who will establish a five days a week community service for our RSSC patients. If you are a highly motivated, clinical expert and leader who can establish this service for our patients, then we are looking for you!
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration with either NMC, GPhC or HCPC.
- Evidence of MSc level education. Such as:
- *MSc Advanced Practice.
- *Equivalent / other MSc mapped to the four pillars of advanced practice.
- *Demonstrated competence at an advanced practice level through Royal College or HEE Credentialing.
- Advanced Clinical Skills qualification
- Non-Medical Prescribing if appropriate to registered profession / role.
- Relevant role specific qualifications (i.e. Advanced Resuscitation -ALS/EPLS/ATLS or surgical skills qualification)
- Leadership/management course or validated portfolio evidence (if not part of MSc level qualification)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with respiratory patients as a registered practitioner in a provider organisation (e.g. acute sector, community provider, third sector, social care or primary care) and within a relevant specialty
- Leadership and managerial expertise (demonstrable evidence of able to manage a team)
- Proven experience of working with patients requiring invasive and non-invasive ventilation.
- Expertise in physiotherapeutic management including cough augmentation.
- Proven experience in the management of patients with primary sleep disorders such as Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.
- Proven experience of undertaking audits, Serious Untoward Incidences and change management skills.
- Demonstrable evidence of mentoring and preceptorship.
- Experience and training in staff development, coaching, supervision and teaching.
- Experience of writing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures in own area of practice.
- Experience of collaborative working with the multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Experience of collaborative working with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Evidence of theoretical and practical skills allowing autonomous patient management (i.e. patient assessment, diagnosis and management) related to clinical scope of practice
- Understand, encourage and support clinical supervision and mentorship both within and across professional roles.
- Effective leadership skills relevant to role (i.e. demonstrated ability to provide clinical professional leadership)
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Educational skills such as identification of learning needs, delivery and evaluation, providing work based learning.
- Experience of multi-professional working
- Ability to interpret and evaluate national and international guidelines and apply to local protocols and practice as appropriate
- Ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders including to service users, clinicians, and senior leadership teams. This will require proven ability and leadership skills demonstrating motivational, visionary, diplomacy and negotiation skills.
- Works under own initiative with strong organisational skills and ability to achieve to deadlines
- Able to use high-level problem-solving and analytical skills and manage complexity
- Effective time-management and prioritisation skills
- Appropriate level of I.T literacy (i.e., for radiology, pathology, microbiology ordering as per Trust protocols, utilising patient systems)
Desirable
- Research conversant with published research articles and peer reviewed materials.
- Experience of collaboratively working with other specialist supporting & developing programmes of care.
- Evidence of involvement in change management and/or clinical service improvement.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Ability to deal with many conflicting priorities.
- Ability to cope with new and changing demands and emotionally demanding situations e.g., dealing with distressed, and sometimes challenging visitors and staff.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration with either NMC, GPhC or HCPC.
- Evidence of MSc level education. Such as:
- *MSc Advanced Practice.
- *Equivalent / other MSc mapped to the four pillars of advanced practice.
- *Demonstrated competence at an advanced practice level through Royal College or HEE Credentialing.
- Advanced Clinical Skills qualification
- Non-Medical Prescribing if appropriate to registered profession / role.
- Relevant role specific qualifications (i.e. Advanced Resuscitation -ALS/EPLS/ATLS or surgical skills qualification)
- Leadership/management course or validated portfolio evidence (if not part of MSc level qualification)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with respiratory patients as a registered practitioner in a provider organisation (e.g. acute sector, community provider, third sector, social care or primary care) and within a relevant specialty
- Leadership and managerial expertise (demonstrable evidence of able to manage a team)
- Proven experience of working with patients requiring invasive and non-invasive ventilation.
- Expertise in physiotherapeutic management including cough augmentation.
- Proven experience in the management of patients with primary sleep disorders such as Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.
- Proven experience of undertaking audits, Serious Untoward Incidences and change management skills.
- Demonstrable evidence of mentoring and preceptorship.
- Experience and training in staff development, coaching, supervision and teaching.
- Experience of writing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures in own area of practice.
- Experience of collaborative working with the multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Experience of collaborative working with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Evidence of theoretical and practical skills allowing autonomous patient management (i.e. patient assessment, diagnosis and management) related to clinical scope of practice
- Understand, encourage and support clinical supervision and mentorship both within and across professional roles.
- Effective leadership skills relevant to role (i.e. demonstrated ability to provide clinical professional leadership)
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Educational skills such as identification of learning needs, delivery and evaluation, providing work based learning.
- Experience of multi-professional working
- Ability to interpret and evaluate national and international guidelines and apply to local protocols and practice as appropriate
- Ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders including to service users, clinicians, and senior leadership teams. This will require proven ability and leadership skills demonstrating motivational, visionary, diplomacy and negotiation skills.
- Works under own initiative with strong organisational skills and ability to achieve to deadlines
- Able to use high-level problem-solving and analytical skills and manage complexity
- Effective time-management and prioritisation skills
- Appropriate level of I.T literacy (i.e., for radiology, pathology, microbiology ordering as per Trust protocols, utilising patient systems)
Desirable
- Research conversant with published research articles and peer reviewed materials.
- Experience of collaboratively working with other specialist supporting & developing programmes of care.
- Evidence of involvement in change management and/or clinical service improvement.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Ability to deal with many conflicting priorities.
- Ability to cope with new and changing demands and emotionally demanding situations e.g., dealing with distressed, and sometimes challenging visitors and staff.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
