Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and experienced physiotherapist or nurse to join our team as 0.2wte for 6-months to cover maternity leave. The NCL Altered Airway and Complex Respiratory Service (NCL AACRS) supports patients and carers living with altered airways and complex respiratory needs across NCL. The main responsibilities for this role are to support the transition to a new community provider for respiratory consumables, streamline current equipment process, provide clinical and non-clinical supervision for the team and facilitate joint working with the NCL Commissioners. 

This role is only for 6-months and would be an ideal secondment for someone looking to further their experience. We are looking for an individual with advanced skills in the management of altered airway and complex respiratory patients and experience of working in a community setting. Project management skills or previous experience with community equipment are desirable. 

The successful candidate will be a dynamic and motivated individual who can provide decisive and effective therapy input and demonstrate high level communication skills and a flexible approach when working under pressure.

For more information, please contact Jessica Lipman ([email protected]) 

Main duties of the job

·       To provide clinical support; facilitating the discharge of altered airway and complex respiratory patients from the acute wards, young adults transitioning into adult services and people living with altered airways in the community.

·       To be an expert practitioner in all aspects of altered airway care and respiratory practice.

·       To work within a multi-disciplinary team, liaising appropriately with all members of the team and service users, both within the acute trusts and across NCL.

·       To lead, co-ordinate and evaluate altered airway care in the NCL community.

·       To promote UCLH and NCL as a national leader in developing community expertise in altered airway care

·       To provide expert clinical and operational leadership through supervision, advice, guidance and information to the community nursing and therapy teams

·        To develop a proposal for sustainable NCL respiratory equipment provision.

·        To provide oversight and monitoring of the current NCL/Camden Personal Health Budget (PHB) pilot

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites: 

·        University College Hospital 

·        National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 

·        Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals 

·        University College Hospital Grafton Way Building 

·        Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine 

·        University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre 

·        The Hospital for Tropical Diseases 

·        University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street 

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology. 

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.