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An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Chest Heart Stroke Scotland (CHSS) Community Respiratory Team, a newly established service for Grampian. Serving patients with acute and long term respiratory illness, this newly created team will work alongside existing services to deliver more Respiratory specific care to patients in community settings.
You will have a key role in supporting and managing Band 4 and Band 7 CHSS CRT colleagues and will work with the support and supervision of a team of Band 4 HCAs, Advanced Practitioners and Consultant colleagues. You will have an excellent knowledge of respiratory conditions and will have proven leadership skills. You will work autonomously delivering complex care for patients with acute and long term Respiratory conditions and will require excellent communication skills as you will have professional responsibility to liaise with teams in primary care, community care and the acute sector. You will also liaise with other Healthcare Professionals such as physiotherapists, pharmacists and the oxygen service to deliver integrated care as part of Grampian wide re-design of respiratory care.
As a new service you will also have a key role in collecting data for clinical audit and clinical effectiveness reviews, seeking feedback from patients and service users, and in shaping the development and future of the CHSS Community Respiratory Team
Car driver (access to a vehicle) is essential
Full registration with a licence to practise with the GMC is required. (licence to practise must be in place prior to starting in post). For more information visit www.gmc-uk.org
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 26th of April 2023.
Informal enquiries to gram.chsscrt@nhs.scot
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.