Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist at St Mary's Hospital, London. The role involves providing leadership in a busy unit, ensuring high-quality care, and supporting staff development. Ideal for experienced nurses passionate about allergy care.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing initiatives

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Car lease schemes

Season ticket loan

Onsite leisure facilities

Qualifications

• Experience at Band 6 or above in any acute setting.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in allergy and skin prick testing.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe, high quality, individualised nursing care.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate allergy nursing care.
• Participate in service audit and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Change management

Quality improvement

Education

Degree in relevant subject area

Mentorship qualification

Non-medical prescribing

Cannulation and phlebotomy skills

Spirometry ARTP qualification

Job description

Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist, based at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. This is a great opportunity for an experienced nurse to provide visible and supportive leadership to our team. The Paediatric Allergy Day Unit is a busy unit which provides a 5-day service; and supported by a team of world renowned Specialist Consultants, where staff are trained in oral food challenges, intravenous drug challenges, skin prick test, and spirometry.

The successful candidate will have access to all Paediatric Allergy courses that are available at our Imperial College and other institutions.Aside from promoting positive learning culture, the post holder will lead on a range of risks, governance and quality improvement. The post holder will work with the MDT in monitoring and maintaining policies, standards of nursing care and staff development. This will involve dealing with complex situations and having to take appropriate action in elective, and emergency or unforeseen situations.

It is an expectation that all staff employed who come in contact with children and young people have a duty to safeguard and promote their welfare.

This post will be subject to criminal records bureau checks at an enhanced levelFor further details / informal visits contact:

Lucy Underhill, Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse SpecialistE-mail: [e-mail] Tel: [phone]

Main duties of the job

• Provide safe, high quality, individualised, evidence based nursing care with the support of and in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team. This includes dealing with complex situations, taking appropriate action in an emergency and unforeseen situations.
• Develop the specialist clinical skills and knowledge to achieve the competences required in order to carry out all relevant duties without direct supervision.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist allergy nursing care and advice to support children, young people, their families and carers managing their health conditions.
• Participate in service audit, evaluation and continuous improvement which achieves the highest quality of evidence based care providing the best sustainable outcomes for children, young people and their families & carers
• Take charge of the clinical needs of a group of defined patients and of the clinical area in the absence of more senior staff, prioritising workload according to changing clinical need, utilising appropriate support as necessary to ensure safe, high quality care is maintained at all times.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Education

• RSCN/RN (child) or RN (adult)
• Experience of supervision of junior staff, mentorship qualification or equivalent
• Educated to degree level in relevant subject area or equivalent experience
• Non-medical prescribing
• Cannulation and phlebotomy skills
• Spirometry ARTP qualification or working towards

Experience

• Experience at Band 6 or above in any acute setting.
• acute setting. Evidence of post registration experience in a general or specialist setting
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience in allergy
• Skin prick testing
• Research and audit experience

Skills

• Be able to demonstrate knowledge of specialist patient group
• Excellent level of English language demonstrated through effective written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of research and audit
• Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code.
• Change management, quality improvement or project management experience.
• Evidence of effective leadership skills/knowledge e.g. Leadership course

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.

Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist