Paediatric Respiratory Nurse Specialist

Job Overview

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, skilled and innovative Specialist Nurse with a wide range of experience in respiratory conditions to join our passionate and enthusiastic team.

This post offers a unique opportunity to work alongside medical and specialist nursing colleagues in both the hospital and the community. You will need to act as a resource on the management and treatment of asthma & respiratory conditions in childhood for patients, carers and healthcare professionals and develop strong relationships with both children and their families.

Main duties of the job

The CNS role also includes delivering staff training and education for the management of children with asthma and wheeze across the Trust.

The Band 7 CNS shall be expected to lead and manage his/her own respiratory patient cohort working closely with the interdisciplinary team. This will include provision of expert advice and knowledge in the management and co-ordination within the multidisciplinary service for children and taking a holistic approach to the child and family.

The post holder will be required to oversee the safe discharge of patients from hospital to home, assist in the review of patients in the MDT asthma outpatient clinic and run nurse led clinics where needed. The CNS will be required to arrange and communicate with patients requiring biologics and further investigation for children and young people with difficult to treat or severe asthma.

The post holder will work as part of the Respiratory team, covering Asthma, Allergies and Cystic Fibrosis. There is a wide scope for development within the team to cover these aspects of respiratory.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role for more detailed information.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Sick Children’s Nurse (NMC Sub –Part 1 (Children) /RN Child
• Relevant specialist post basic programme in paediatric respiratory and management
• First degree in nursing, or demonstrable experience at this level
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Completed / completing a Master’s pathway
• Diploma in asthma care
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Advanced clinical assessment skills
• Ability to initiate, sustain and evaluate change
• Previous experience of formal / informal teaching of patients & staff
• Able to work autonomously and within a team and ability to work collaboratively
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in audit and evaluation
• Experience in acting as a clinical supervisor and mentor to others
• Previous community nursing experience Non-Medical prescribing course
• Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience in managing paediatric respiratory patients in the hospital / community setting
• Demonstrates skilled written and verbal communication skills
• Presentation skills Keyboard and word processing skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Participating in nurse delivered clinics
• Previous practice development experience
• Extensive asthma experience
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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