Respiratory Specialist Nurses

York, England, United Kingdom

7/18/2025

This is an exciting opportunity for a band 6 nurse to join our well established and supportive respiratory nursing team.

If you are passionate about taking care of respiratory patients and looking to develop into a specialist role then this may be exactly what you are looking for. The role offers you the variety of working across the acute setting and in the community. The team supports patients with COPD, Asthma and those requiring home oxygen across the Vale of York. We hold a number of clinics across three different sites; Tang Hall, Selby War Memorial Hospital and York Hospital. The service operating hours are Monday to Friday ( excluding bank holidays) between the hours of 08:00-16:30.

As this role encompasses 3 different sites, you must be able to transport yourself between the sites and hold a current UK License.

The ability to transport yourself and equipment across the locality during the course of a normal working day is required for this vacancy.

If you are currently employed by the Trust and you wish to apply for this role on a secondment basis please seek permission from your current line manager before applying for the post.

Please note: This post may become Permanent at the end of Fixed Term/Secondment.

In this role you will

• Have Excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of the multidisciplinary
• Work collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Teams, contributing to the ongoing development of the Home Oxygen Service-Assessment and Review (HOS-AR)
• Run nurse-led clinics in support of the Advanced Nurse Specialist
• Support ward staff to manage COPD and Asthma patients
• Support nursing and medical staff in the safe management of oxygen
• Perform comprehensive assessment of a patient’s needs
• Support a caseload of respiratory patients and non respiratory patients requiring LTOT, Ambulatory and palliative oxygen providing community follow-up and ongoing telephone contact.
• Support the ongoing development and day to day running of the Early Supported Discharge Service (ESDS) as required
• Support the Advanced Nurse Specialist in providing education for all grades of staff both within and outside formal programmes of learning.
• Actively participate in clinical professional development by way of regular training, support, clinical reasoning and peer review.
• Participate in evidence-based audit and research projects to further practice, making and acting upon recommendations for changes in practice to improve service delivery including the formulation and implementation of the service protocols.
  
  

To find out more information click on the following link for our Trust Information pack:

https://yorkhospitals.pagetiger.com/hdjgxd

Our Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
  
  

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Maria Branton Job title: Respiratory Specialist Nurse Team Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01904 726448