Job description
Salary up to £40,000 FTE (dependent on experience and qualifications)
+ Company Car or Car Allowance + Bonus
+ excellent benefits package including lunch allowance, RCN and NMC fees paid, private healthcare, contributory pension and 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
Are you a Practice Nurse looking to specialise in Chronic Respiratory Disease management?
Full time Monday- Friday
· North East & North Cumbria
· Greater Manchester
· Somerset
· Frimley (Surrey)
· The Black County & West Birmingham
· South Yorkshire
Full or part time ( 3 days minimum between Monday- Friday )
· Shropshire
· Oxfordshire
· West Midlands
· Northants
· Beds/Bucks/Herts
· Sheffield
· Hampshire
Our client has a nationwide team of specialist Nurse Advisors with in depth understanding of national COPD and Asthma treatment guidelines who work closely with CCGs and GP Practices to help improve respiratory care in the community. Their Nurses share a passion for respiratory disease and can make a real difference to the patient.
The Nurses become highly qualified disease management experts within asthma & COPD, sharing their knowledge, confidence and experience with patients, PNs, GPs and CCGs
Field based with potential for some remote working from home, you will work throughout the area running respiratory review projects at GP Practices and Hospitals that have requested support. You will meet with key clinical stakeholders to agree the audit, screening and patient review processes. You will schedule a series of diary dates to ensure you can meet all review objectives including checking the audit, identifying patients to be included, running patient therapy review clinics including spirometry assessment and result interpretation, inhaler technique training and lifestyle counselling, maintaining all documentation, feeding back to the key clinical stakeholders and providing Practice Nurse training and support as required. Follow up visits are also provided to help maintain improved results.
To be considered for these exciting roles you will be a Registered Adult Nurse (RGN) that meets the following criteria;
· Level 1 UK Registered Nurse (Adult)
· Extensive and current experience managing Asthma patients in a primary care setting including spirometry
· Asthma diploma and ARTP Spirometry is an advantage but candidates currently doing spirometry will be considered
· Previous or current experience as a Practice
· Confident communicator
· Current UK Full Driving Licence and willing to travel daily as part of the role.
To find out more please call Heather Hughes on 01189 713879 or send your CV
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Salary: £36,500.00-£40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company car
- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Experience:
- spyrometry: 1 year (preferred)
- Nursing: 3 years (preferred)
- Asthma patient reviews in primary care: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- NMC (required)
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: On the road
Reference ID: XC3812A