Job summary
We are looking for an experienced, skilled, and motivated Advanced Practitioner to join our newly established Specialist Ventilatory Community Home Visits Service, part of the RSSC Home Mechanical Ventilation Service. This innovative, patient centred service ensures that individuals receive tailored, proactive, and flexible support at the right time, in the right setting, from the right team.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic, and forward thinking registered professional working at an advanced level across the four pillars of practice. You will help establish a five day a week community service for RSSC patients. A full driving license is essential.
If you are a highly motivated clinical expert and leader, passionate about delivering exceptional patient care and ready to take on the challenge of shaping a new service, we want to hear from you.
If you do not currently meet the requirements for a Band 7 position, we welcome applications for a Band 6 trainee role, with a structured pathway to Band 7 on completion of the required Level 7 module(s). Candidates must already be working at Band 6. Secondment opportunities may also be considered.
Why Join Us
Play a key role in an innovative, patient-centred service
Enjoy autonomy and leadership in a multidisciplinary team
Benefit from flexible working
Access career progression pathways and Level 7 studies
Make a difference to patients lives and long-term care
If you're ready to drive change and make an impact, contact us to discuss.
Main duties of the job
As an Advanced Practitioner, you will play a key role in managing patients with complex home mechanical ventilation needs, exercising advanced clinical expertise and autonomous decision making across the four pillars of advanced practice:
Clinical Excellence
- Conduct advanced clinical assessments for patients with complex ventilation, airway, and sleep related needs.
- Develop and implement individualised management plans using expert clinical reasoning.
- Provide specialist advice on ventilation and airway management.
- Autonomously interpret complex clinical data and refer patients on when necessary.
- If qualified, act as an independent prescriber in line with Trust protocols.
Leadership & Management
- Lead and drive service development, improvement initiatives, and guideline creation within the Trust.
- Manage and support clinical caseloads, ensuring appropriate prioritisation and delegation.
- Attend and contribute to MDT meetings, ensuring timely communication.
Education
- Provide expert advice, training, and clinical support to all RSSC staff and across the Trust.
- Mentor and support colleagues in managing complex patient cases.
Research
- Lead and support relevant audits, service improvement projects, and research in collaboration with other departments.
- Maintain accurate treatment documentation in line with Trust and professional standards.
- Work with the Lead ACP to evaluate service delivery.
This role will initially be based on the RSSC Day Cases to allow development of clinical practice.
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.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
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.
- Advanced Clinical Skills qualification or working towards.
- Non-Medical Prescribing if appropriate to registered profession / role.
- Relevant role specific qualifications (i.e. Advanced Resuscitation -ALS/EPLS/ATLS or surgical skills qualification).
- Willingness to work towards a master's degree
Desirable
- Possession of master's degree in Advance Clinical Practice or
- Equivalent / other MSc mapped to the four pillars of advanced practice.
- Leadership/management course or validated portfolio evidence (if not part of MSc level qualification).
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.
- Proven experience of working with patients requiring invasive and non-invasive ventilation.
- Proven experience in the management of patients with primary sleep disorders such as Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.
- Proven experience of undertaking audits, incident investigation and change management skills.
- Experience as a Line Manager. Demonstrable evidence of mentoring, training/ coaching in staff development, supervision and teaching.
- Experience of collaborative working with the multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- 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 written and verbal communication skills.
- Educational skills such as identification of learning needs, delivery and evaluation, providing work based learning.
- 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
- Experience in physiotherapeutic/airway clearance techniques including cough augmentation.
- Experience of collaboratively working with other specialist supporting & developing programmes of care.
- Evidence of involvement in change management and/or clinical service improvement.
- Experience of writing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures in own area of practice.
- Research conversant with published research articles and peer reviewed materials.
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 patients, visitors and staff.
- Valid driving license.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration with either NMC, GPhC or HCPC.
- Advanced Clinical Skills qualification or working towards.
- Non-Medical Prescribing if appropriate to registered profession / role.
- Relevant role specific qualifications (i.e. Advanced Resuscitation -ALS/EPLS/ATLS or surgical skills qualification).
- Willingness to work towards a master's degree
Desirable
- Possession of master's degree in Advance Clinical Practice or
- Equivalent / other MSc mapped to the four pillars of advanced practice.
- Leadership/management course or validated portfolio evidence (if not part of MSc level qualification).
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.
- Proven experience of working with patients requiring invasive and non-invasive ventilation.
- Proven experience in the management of patients with primary sleep disorders such as Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.
- Proven experience of undertaking audits, incident investigation and change management skills.
- Experience as a Line Manager. Demonstrable evidence of mentoring, training/ coaching in staff development, supervision and teaching.
- Experience of collaborative working with the multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- 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 written and verbal communication skills.
- Educational skills such as identification of learning needs, delivery and evaluation, providing work based learning.
- 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
- Experience in physiotherapeutic/airway clearance techniques including cough augmentation.
- Experience of collaboratively working with other specialist supporting & developing programmes of care.
- Evidence of involvement in change management and/or clinical service improvement.
- Experience of writing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures in own area of practice.
- Research conversant with published research articles and peer reviewed materials.
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 patients, visitors and staff.
- Valid driving license.
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).
