Asthma Nurse Specialist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greenwich, Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS healthcare provider in England is seeking a Community Children's and Young People's Asthma Nurse Specialist. The role involves developing and leading a specialist service, ensuring high-quality clinical care for children with asthma. The successful candidate will work closely with community and acute settings, providing guidance and expertise. Applicants should hold relevant nursing qualifications and have significant post-registration experience. This is a unique opportunity to make a substantial difference in children's health.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration required.
• Extensive post registration experience of working autonomously.
• Demonstrates leading in service change or development.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and evaluate a seamless specialist service for children with asthma.
• Provide professional and clinical leadership to community nursing staff.
• Work in partnership with acute settings and GPs to support children and families.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

RSCN or RN (Child) Degree level

Post registration qualification in appropriate area

ARTP Spirometry Certification

Diploma in Asthma Care

Job description

We are seeking to appoint an innovative and enthusiastic Community Children's and Young People's Asthma Nurse Specialist in Bexley.The Community CYP Asthma service is integrated with the existing Community Children's Nursing and Hospital at Home Team, who are part of an integrated network of services for children and young people in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care.

The post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service for children and young people with asthma, ensuring patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. The post holder will lead the specialist service and demonstrate a high level of expertise within the Asthma service, providing advice, education, treatment and support to health care professionals and patients.

• This post may require unsocial hours working as part of the CCN roster for weekend working, on-call for end of life care.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring the Community CYP Asthma Service (2-19 years) provides a high quality, evidence based locally appropriate service to families.
• Identifying new theories, policies and guidelines relating to Asthma care in the community; disseminating research findings and developing local policies and standards accordingly.
• Providing professional and clinical leadership to all children's community nursing staff, ensuring that they are engaged with and adhering to local policies, guidelines and expectations.
• Assessing nursing care needs, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of nursing care for children and young people with asthma on the caseload.
• Working in partnership with the acute setting to promote ongoing monitoring and support for children, young people and their families and likewise with the GPs in Bexley.
• Facilitate clear communication with children, young people and their families, colleagues and other community professional enabling planned care to take place effectively.
• Act as designated resource to children, young people and their families within the case load /sphere of practice, multidisciplinary professionals and other community services.
• To be an expert and knowledgeable practitioner within the Specialist Asthma service ensuring the provision of high-quality evidence-based asthma care for the children, young person and their families from diagnosis and through to the transition to adult services.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Community Childrens and Young Peoples Asthma Nurse Specialist Job Description. Please do not hesitate to make contact with us to discuss further.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration
• RSCN or RN (Child) Degree level
• Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience
• ARTP (Association for Respiratory Technology & Physiology) Spirometry Certification
• Diploma in Asthma Care

Experience

• Extensive post registration experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care
• Experience of relevant clinical competence
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates leading in service change or development

Leadership

• Evidence of management/leadership skills and autonomous practice
• Evidence in applying teaching skills to patients in how to manage their condition and raise their awareness of their condition
• Ability to conduct operational change, research, audits and evaluate implemented projects successfully
• Experience in managing clinical incidents and complaints.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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