Respiratory Nurse Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves assessing patients in two local hospitals for safe early discharge and delivering hospital-level care at home. Responsibilities include home visits to monitor health and treatment during exacerbations, holistic assessments, and optimisation of respiratory management. Strong communication skills and the ability to make autonomous clinical decisions at pace are essential. The service operates 8am-8pm, seven days a week, across multiple community locations, requiring flexibility and mobility. This is an opportunity to join an innovative team improving patient outcomes and reducing hospital pressures.
Key responsibilities
- Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making, within the hospital setting and patients home.
- Provide clinical respiratory expertise and knowledge to others when managing continuing and highly complex situations.
- Assess patient conditions and consider a range of options when delivering continuing and highly complex care.
- Undertake chronic disease management reviews of the housebound patient/client, where appropriate.
- Develop individualised care plans following holistic assessment of need, with the involvement of patients and carers.
- Ensure all assessments and referrals are documented to the standards set by the NMC.
Essential criteria
- Registered Professional.
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience.
- Experience of successful multi-agency working.
- Demonstrable experience in relevant area of practice or equivalent
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses.
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
- Understanding of improving outcomes with partnership working
- Understanding of the principles of respiratory care management
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with the organisational public health policy
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Risk assessment skills
- Self management and motivation skills
- IT literate
Desirable criteria
- V300 Prescriber, if required for the post.
- Management and clinical leadership experience
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Respiratory Nurse Practitioner
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
he Liverpool Community Respiratory Team hosts the Acute Respiratory Infections Virtual Ward , delivering hospital admission avoidance and early supported discharge for patients with COPD exacerbations, bronchiectasis, community-acquired pneumonia, and viral lower respiratory tract infections. We also provide nurse-led respiratory optimisation in homes and clinics, following NICE and local guidelines.
Medical leadership is supported by a Respiratory Consultant and two Advanced Clinical Practitioners, alongside a multidisciplinary team including a team leader, Band 6 and 7 specialist nurses, physiotherapists, an assistant practitioner, and admin staff.
This role involves assessing patients in two local hospitals for safe early discharge and delivering hospital-level care at home. Responsibilities include home visits to monitor health and treatment during exacerbations, holistic assessments, and optimisation of respiratory management. Strong communication skills and the ability to make autonomous clinical decisions at pace are essential. A commitment to audit, research, and understanding national and local respiratory priorities is required.
The service operates 8am-8pm, seven days a week, across multiple community locations,
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