Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and inspirational nurse to join the Oxford Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) service as a Senior Specialist Nurse (Band 7).

You will work as part of a team delivering a specialist nurse-led respiratory service and alongside the broader multi-disciplinary team to deliver exceptional care to a complex and diverse group of patients. The Oxford ILD service is an NHS England commissioned tertiary service which provides care and support to patients, their relatives and families with ILD from across Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties.

This post comes with significant opportunities for development, and the ideal candidate needs to exhibit a breadth of interest across areas such as respiratory disease, patient education, breathlessness management and palliative care. The Multidisciplinary team will ensure you are fully supported with your development into this unique and rewarding role. Within a research active service, the post offers excellent training opportunities, which will include academic modules as required, such as Non-Medical Prescribing. You will be encouraged and supported to use your initiative and to be creative in seeking ways to continuously improve care in line with the best available evidence.

If you would like to find out more about the role and whether it is the right post for you, please get in touch.

Contact Carmine Ruggiero (ILD - Advanced Nurse Practitioner) [email protected].

The post holder will facilitate and manage the provision of high-quality nursing care to ILD patients, their families and/or carers. They will utilise skills of leadership and advanced clinical expertise to ensure a seamless service for patients, providing advice, education, and support from diagnosis to end of life care. They will work collaboratively with primary, community, and secondary healthcare professionals, to support individuals within an outpatient environment and ensure continuity of care.

Be an autonomous practitioner with excellent clinical decision-making skills to respond to the complex-health needs of ILD patients. To develop and maintain expert knowledge on relevant treatments including antifibrotic and immunosuppression. Be willing to learn techniques to enhance clinical practice relevant to respiratory medicine along with palliative and end of life care.

The post holder will work across professional, organisational and system boundaries; to proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to improve health outcomes and healthcare delivery systems. They will be actively involved in education, audit and research and contribute to the development of the ILD service. Monitor and maintain standards of care and provide this information to the Directorate.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

The successful post holder will become a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and educated member of the team who is able to work autonomously making high level decisions to treat health needs.

The specialist nurse role encompasses aspects of education, quality improvement and leadership but is firmly grounded in direct care provision or clinical work with those living with interstitial lung disease and their families. Nurse-led clinics are delivered at the Churchill and Horton hospitals; a full driving licence is required to travel between sites.

The senior specialist nurse will be able to;

• Assess individuals, families and populations holistically using a range of different methods, some of which may not be usually exercised by nurses such as physical assessment and history taking, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests or advanced health needs assessments.
• Ensure the provision of continuity of care.
• Assess and evaluate, with patients and /or carers, the effectiveness of the treatment and care provided and make changes as needed, which may include the prescribing of medicines, or referring patients to an appropriate specialist.
• Use their expert knowledge and clinical judgement to decide whether to refer patients for investigations.
• Work autonomously within the ILD service and also wider health care team both within and outside of Oxford University Hospitals. Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes and healthcare delivery systems.