Job overview

The Consultant Respiratory Practitioner will provide expert clinical leadership to develop services and promote respiratory care pathways for Powys Teaching Health Board. Taking the lead role and responsibility for the strategic and operational management of the specialist respiratory care services, working with the Clinical Lead for Respiratory, and wider integrated professions. Through clinical leadership and strategic planning, leading on and working in collaboration including pathway and service redesign, deliver a robust and sustainable respiratory service model for Powys Teaching Health Board.

 The Consultant Respiratory Practitioner is a highly experienced autonomous clinical leader providing advanced triage, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of people with complex respiratory conditions across community, primary and secondary care interfaces. The post holder leads service transformation, education, research and quality improvement aligned with NHS Wales Consultant Practice Framework and Powys Teaching Health Board values.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provision of expert consultant-level respiratory clinical practice across integrated pathways

• Leadership of service redesign, innovation and improvement across community respiratory care

• Development and delivery of education, supervision and workforce capability including Advanced Clinical Practice

Main duties of the job

• Act Acts as the highest-level clinical expert within the organisation for respiratory practice. Provide autonomous assessment and management of complex respiratory patients including COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis, ILD and respiratory failure, and other nonspecific presentations

• Lead specialist respiratory clinics across community and integrated settings and potentially cross border

• Interpret and act upon diagnostic investigations including spirometry, ABGs and imaging reports

• Lead admission avoidance and supported discharge pathways including virtual ward models

• Provide expert advice on oxygen therapy, NIV other areas of and long-term respiratory management

• Act as a consultant resource for MDTs, primary care and acute colleagues

• Receive and advise on referrals of exceptional complexity beyond advanced practice scope, providing expert second opinion and clinical decision support across Powys and relevant cross-border pathways.

• Prescribe independently within professional scope of practice, leading medicines optimisation, respiratory formulary advice and prescribing governance in collaboration with pharmacy and medicines management colleagues.

·         Provide advanced and effective triage to referrals and provide advice and guidance to referrers and the wider clinical team. 

• Lead redesign of integrated respiratory pathways across Powys and cross-border services. Support integration of cardiac and respiratory services and breathlessness pathway

Working for our organisation

Being the smallest Heath Board in Wales means that you won’t get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation. 

As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We’re also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy ’life work’ balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.

To start your journey with us, and to learn more about what we can offer you please visit: https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/. There you will find information about our benefits and values, read staff experiences and more about what our beautiful county has to offer.