Job overview

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

Exciting opportunity to join the Respiratory Sleep Medicine Service at South Tees. 

We are looking for a skilled professional to join an innovative team in delivering excellent care to patients requiring Non Invasive Ventilation with CPAP/BiPAP. 

The candidate will be a registered nurse or physiologist  with an interest in Respiratory Sleep Medicine

This post is a specialist practitioner working as part of a multidisciplinary team in Respiratory Sleep Medicine.

The post holder will maintain and actively contribute to the delivery of excellent patient care to our service users.

The post holder will contribute to the further growth and development of Respiratory Sleep services to improve the quality of care for service users.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work autonomously; clinically assessing new patients across inpatient and outpatient areas, in order to initiate new patients onto Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy or Bilevel positive airway pressure (Bipap) utilising local protocols, evidenced based clinical criteria, and national guidelines. 

The post holder will provide review clinics; analysing remote monitoring systems for all patient groups including some complex patients referred from specialist areas i.e. Bariatric services, adapting treatment regimens/prescriptions as appropriate to optimise therapy usage, whilst promoting self-care management with advice to ensure efficient and effective service provision through support and symptom recognition.Following discussion with senior staff and medics the post holder will refer for further related diagnostic procedures, intervention in treatment pathways or discharge from treatment.

The post holder will have a good knowledge and understanding of a range of respiratory conditions and services to support or signpost other HCPs effectively providing a specialist service for patients with OSA and other conditions requiring Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, Non-Invasive Ventilation and where appropriate Adaptive-servo Ventilation. Prior knowledge and experience of Non-Invasive Ventilation and Adaptive-servo Ventilation is desirable. 

The post holder will deliver this role across Hospital Tees sites as required.

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff.  This training programme has been designed to support our staff in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the following training sessions.

·         Your Leadership Impact

·         Leading Your Team to Success

·         Service Improvement for Beginners

·         Developing your Service Improvement Skills

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

·         Explore leadership within the NHS

·         Promote Trust values and behaviours

·         Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills

·         Equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these three and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.