Specialist Respiratory Lead
- Worcestershire
- 40,000-44,999 per annum
- March 25, 2019
- Permanent
Our trust manages three hospitals in Worcestershire: the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch; Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre and Worcestershire Royal Hospital. We also manage a surgery ward at Evesham Community Hospital.
We provide acute services to a population of over 500,000 and our staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care.
Our vision is about taking pride in our healthcare services, and our PRIDE values are important in our everyday work.
In Worcestershire, hospital services are under review. Over the next year, we will be working with Clinical Commissioning Groups to plan the best way for services to be delivered from our three hospitals. It will involve centralising some services, and changing the way we work.
We are committed to making changes that ensure all of our hospitals thrive, and it’s an exciting time for you to join us.
SPECIALIST RESPIRATORY LEAD
MEDICINE DIVISION
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity as a Specialist Respiratory Lead?
Are you an innovator and someone who is prepared to think differently to get the best results?
If you are then we would like to hear from you.
The role of Specialist Respiratory Lead is to improve patient outcomes through providing Respiratory care to patients within Worcestershire. The service provided must be integrated with other local services and provide respiratory expertise and support to local health care professionals.
You would be required to develop, communicate and promote the service, ensuring this is highly integrated within the care pathway. Lead a team of countywide Respiratory nurses. To support and adhere to our Clinical Governance programme within the service by seeking, proposing and implementing continuous improvements, whilst staying patient focused.
You will become a source of respiratory expertise to all health care professionals, so experience of respiratory care and being highly motivated and capable of self-managing is essential.
This is an excellent opportunity to come and make your mark. You will be a key part of our senior nursing team driving improvements in the quality of patient care, high professional standards and leading by example and behavior to build a culture that is caring and safe, where individuals and teams take responsibility and where we all value each other.
Julie Kite, Divisional Director of Nursing – Medicine, julie.kite3@nhs.net
Closing Date : Friday, 23rd September 2016
Important information about your application
- You must fulfil all of the essential criteria in the person specification
- References from current and previous employers must cover at least three years
- Due to the large number of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
- All correspondence will be sent through NHS Jobs, so please check NHS jobs and your email account regularly
- If you have not been contacted within four weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted on this occasion
- By accepting a position within our Trust you agree that the Occupational Health Department can access your occupational health records from your current or previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. This is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer and supports flexible working. We offer excellent learning and development opportunities, career progression, and are part of the NHS pension scheme. All of our sites are completely smokefree.
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