Offer summary

Qualifications:

A valid NMC registration is required., Experience in working with respiratory conditions is essential., A sound understanding of respiratory nursing standards and key performance indicators is necessary., Strong planning and organizational skills with prior coaching or health promotion experience are preferred..

Key responsibilities:

Conduct telephone consultations to screen and identify high-risk patients for CT Lung assessments.

Provide clinical care, specialist nursing advice, and psychosocial support to patients and their carers.

Assess the health and psychosocial needs of patients and deliver care through shared decision-making.

Collaborate with clinical and management teams to achieve key service objectives.

Job description

Nurse Adviser - Lung health

Xyla (part of Acacium Group)

6 month FTC (Possibility of extension)

Monday - Friday 8.30am-5pm

Remote

£38,000

Unlock your potential

Xyla, part of Acacium Group, is an integrated healthcare solution that improves people’s lives and alleviates the demands of the UK healthcare system. Our services help people avoid hospital or accelerate them safely through it, with specialist support in their community or homes whenever needed.

Working with over 80 NHS trusts, our clinical care team delivers a range of clinical services in hospitals, the community or virtually. Our services include diagnostic, acute and virtual services – all of which are designed and delivered by senior NHS consultants and operational staff who ensure that national clinical guidelines and operational best practice guidance are met.

We have an exciting opportunity within our Virtual Hospital Service to join our lung health nursing team as a Nurse Adviser, where you will have the opportunity to contribute to delivering high quality clinical care to patients within the service by leading on defined aspects of care.

Our lung health nursing team are committed to comprehensively completing the targeted lung health check programme as per the standards of the National Protocol. Providing telephone consultations to pro-actively screen and identify high -risk patients for CT Lung assessment, for the early intervention of potential lung cancer.

As a Nurse Adviser in our service, you will work closely with the clinical services Manager to ensure that the service is safe, effective, and well-led to
ensure the delivery of a seamless service to our patients. This is a truly exciting opportunity where you will liaise with other hospital and community teams along a pathway to support the delivery of patient and family centered seamless care, as well as providing advice and education to patients and their carers.

Everyday you will...

Complete the LHC via telephone in line with the LHC(Lung Health Checks) Telephone Standard Operating Procedure undertaking LHC risk scores, and reviewing the inclusion and exclusion criteria for the programme with the patient.
Complete brief intervention smoking cessation and refer onto smoking cessation services where required
Be a defined point of contact for patients/carers for defined episodes/pathways of care and provide clinical care, specialist nursing advice and psychosocial support
Assess health and psychosocial needs of individual patients, and provide care to meet these needs, through a process of shared decision making
Deliver expert nursing care to patients in agreed practice settings, working with nursing/multidisciplinary teams.
Work closely with clinical and management teams in the delivery of key objectives

What's in it for you?

Dedication to developing you and your career- we can give you the tools, guidance and support you need to be successful in your career
Unrivalled career opportunities that come from being part of a global group made up of over 20 healthcare, staffing and life sciences businesses
Flexibility in a fully remote working from home role
Opportunities to enhance your experience and skillset by moving across the global organisation
Workplace pension scheme
Gym flex
Reward Portal, offering discounts on shops, restaurants, bars and cinemas
Free flu vaccinations
Health Assessments and Dental Insurance
Life Assurance, Critical Illness Cover and Private Medical Insurance

Join us and make a difference!

If you want to join a global, marketing-leading organisation who are committed to the human side of business, then look no further. Acacium Group is a global healthcare solutions partner offering staffing, managed services and innovative delivery models to health and social care systems and the life sciences industry. We are a business with scale, leading digital capabilities and a strong financial profile, with a vision to be the leading global healthcare solutions partner.

We are powered by the best people and have an unrivalled and diverse range of capabilities, all while incorporating our company values into everything we do - Putting People First, Always by your Side, Driven by Excellence.

Join us and play a key part of shaping the future of society and improving people’s lives!

To thrive in this role, you must ideally have...

A valid NMC registration
Experience of working with respiratory conditions
Sound understanding of respiratory nursing standards and key performance indicator
Good at planning and organising with previous coaching/health promotion experience

Our Inclusion Commitment:

We are passionately committed to being a truly inclusive and diverse company- it is at the heart of our core value of Putting People First. We continue to enhance our culture of inclusion and diversity across all of our roles and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities.

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