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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work within an extended and expanding role, providing holistic, individualised approach for assessment, diagnosis, planning and implementation, practicing within agreed guidelines and protocols to deliver high quality patient services.
• Initiate and develop nurse led services within defined protocols, working closely with primary care and ensuring that high standards of nursing care are set and maintained within the respiratory service, monitoring through audit, feedback and review.
• Professionally run and coordinate a nurse led Asthma clinic providing expert advice and develop individualized treatment plans where prescribing is appropriately tailored to an accurate respiratory diagnosis.
• Within the field of expertise, and organisational policy, request specific clinical tests to establish a diagnosis.
• Coordinate the severe asthma biologic clinic and attend the joint severe asthma clinic with the Respiratory Asthma lead. Linking up with ED to monitor and review frequent attendees and providing outpatient reviews for all ED attendees and hospital inpatients at 4 weeks as per the guidelines.
• Assist hospital staff in the provision of oxygen prescriptions by patient assessment and work closely with the local HosAR to ensure adherence to national best practice standards and protocols.
• To conduct an outpatient clinic for patients with Bronchiectasis and provide education and care liaising with physiotherapists in primary and secondary care and providing sputum monitoring in line with evidenced based standards and national guidelines.
• Continue to provide the best evidenced based care for patients with Asthma and liaise with other tertiary sites and primary care to develop local services and optimum care in hospital and the community.
• To provide quality care to patients with Severe Asthma whilst in hospital and continue the excellent links between secondary and primary care together providing a seamless journey within the Walsall respiratory service. Participating in the acute respiratory virtual ward MDT each morning with members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To comply with the NACAP requirements by the means of audit of Asthma & COPD admissions. To tailor care as per recognised evidence-based recommendations. To work towards KPI achievement in national benchmarking.

Leadership and Staff Management Responsibilities.

• Practice as a professional nurse with confidence, authority and expertise, and promote professionalism within the respiratory nursing team. To have advanced leadership skills.
• Undertakes staff appraisals yearly and ensure all staff have agreed objectives, personal development plans and are compliant with mandatory training.
• Actively be involved with service development within the respiratory service.
• To undertake audit and produce service reports to disseminate amongst staff and in the monthly respiratory service meetings.
• To professionally coordinate a respiratory nurse budget and have awareness of effective use of resources and cost implications demonstrated by optimising staff rotas and effective use of stationery / equipment within the service.
• Participate in the update and continual assessment of clinical protocols and policies for the diagnosis, treatment and management of respiratory patients.
• Be able to prioritise own workload daily with excellent administration skills and coordinate the respiratory nurse team.
• Recognise areas of conflict and manage this and promote a healthy working environment.