Detailed job description and main responsibilities

PRIMARY DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Expert Practice

•       Demonstrate clinical expertise, working autonomously, making highly complex clinical decisions. utilising highly advanced knowledge and experience in dealing with Respiratory patients with highly complex presentations.

•       Request, interpret and act upon the results of investigations pertinent to the healthcare of respiratory patient population.

•       Practice autonomous expert clinical practice, receiving and making referrals to/from a frame of clinical environments across the health network.

•       Help firmly establish values-based professional practice across pathways, services, organisations and systems, working with individuals, families, carers, communities and others.

•       Lead health and social care provision with service users and communities, including practice accreditation, change, and continuous improvement across the system.

•       Help put in place peer reviews and evaluations of safety, quality and health outcomes, from pathway to systems level.

•       High-quality, values-based professional practice that improves people’s experience, supporting them to make decisions in complex situations.

•       A positive approach to working with difference and diversity, challenging stigma and using the best possible communication methods.

•       Use an extensive range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients/carers.  Identifying and accessing where appropriate suitable equipment/persons to aid treatments, motivating, gaining cooperation and progressing rehabilitation and treatment programmes.  This will include patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating patients may be dysphasic, depressed, deaf, blind, have English as a second language or who may be unable to accept diagnosis or who have unrealistic expectations of therapy interventions.

•       Sharing decision-making with service users and partners in every situation, so that the effectiveness of physical, psychological and social interventions and services and the transition through each stage of care and services can be assessed.

•       Lead how risk is managed in unpredictable and complex situations, and where a precedent has not been set.

•       Lead the ongoing development of evidence-based practice and improvement of quality, safety, and health and service outcomes.

•       Lead the ongoing development of, and putting in place and reviewing, care and service pathways, standards, policies, guidelines, procedures, service improvement and practice accreditation.

•       Have formal systems for collecting and reviewing feedback from patients and service users, carers and staff across services, working with service teams to identify and put in place any action needed as a result of that feedback.

•       Involve local people, carers and service users in developing, evaluating and improving services.

•       Work with professional bodies, clinical networks, commissioners, regional and national level, third sectors, charities and other partners.

•       Contribute to a clinical assurance portfolio to evidence clinical practice. If such assurance does not exist, develop and contribute, in collaboration with colleagues across the health network.

•       To demonstrate advanced knowledge, skills and experience within the field of respiratory medicine.

•       To liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team both within University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and around the peninsula.

•       To be recognised as an expert within the field of respiratory care and ensure that locally endorsed standards are developed and implemented, reflecting best practice nationally, following clinical governance policies and are evidence based.

•       To adhere to all Trust and professional bodies policies and code of conduct.

•       To liaise with rehabilitation facilities within the region to ensure a smooth transition of care between the acute and rehabilitation settings.

•       Providing expert knowledge of the acute phase of care, in support of the development of service provision with rehabilitation units in the Local Health Community in line with national directives.

•       Provide advice to medical and nursing staff and other members of the multi-disciplinary team regarding patients respiratory and chest functions/condition, when working on the emergency duty on-call rota.