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SalaryA Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for the next 12 months to work with the home mechanical Ventilation Outreach team at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Due to maternity leave we have two 12 month fixed term contracts for:
• Band 7 1.0 WTE
• Band 7 0.6 WTE
Both fixed term contracts are offered to nurses or physiotherapists as a secondment or for someone who would like to gain valuable experience working with a specialist home ventilation team in the community within a world renown tertiary referral centre at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
To provide advanced assessment and appropriate prescription domiciliary ventilation for patients in other hospitals and in the community. To support development of this service along with other members of the multidisciplinary team and senior physiotherapists.
To support the work and collaboration between hospital and the community in providing integrated holistic respiratory care. This may include providing community patient education and training.
Our philosophy is to enable patient to live a life of quality withing the community.
The successful candidates will have:
• Experience working within critical care OR a respiratory ward which delivers non invasive ventilation
• Currently a Band 6 or above
• Has a degree relevant to their profession or similar
• Has a full UK driving licence
Royal Brompton & Harefield hospital have recently become a clinical group of Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Trust and form the largest post-graduate specialist heart and lung centre in the UK. We are two specialist hospitals which are known throughout the world for our expertise, standard of care and research success.
We are now working in partnership with Lane Fox Respiratory Unit at St Thomas's hospital.
Responsibility for daily management of complex Respiratory Ventilation Service. This will include:
• Domiciliary NIV Setup
• Community based OP clinics
• Weaning support from long term invasive ventilation in external hospitals, community and long term care facilities
• Support/ advice for discharge of complex patients back into community
• Rapid response and troubleshooting for complex patients at home and in the community
• Managing Outreach referrals and database
• Support of the MDT
• To contribute to the strategic direction of the home Ventilation service
This advert closes on Monday 15 Jan 2024
