Paediatric Asthma Nurse Specialist

Barts Health Nhs Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Camden Town is seeking an experienced Children's Respiratory Nurse. The successful candidate will independently manage a tertiary asthma caseload and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure effective asthma care. This role requires strong clinical leadership skills and the ability to work with secondary care teams to improve patient outcomes. Join us in making a difference in children's lives through expert asthma management and service improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing complex asthmatic patients.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong leadership skills and expertise in asthma care.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage tertiary asthma caseloads.
• Coordinate patient management with secondary care teams.
• Develop care pathways for high-risk asthma patients.

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our tertiary asthma service and specialist children's respiratory nursing team. The post holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering expert asthma care at the Royal London Hospital and across the North East London (NEL) network, while supporting and advising secondary care teams.

They will independently manage their own tertiary asthma caseload and shared care patients from referring sites, assessing and coordinating complex cases in partnership with the Network Lead for Children's Asthma, secondary care colleagues, and the wider respiratory, allergy, and physiology MDT. The role also involves liaison with ED, inpatient, and PCCU teams. Working collaboratively, the post holder will help develop care pathways to ensure children with severe asthma receive timely, appropriate management. They will contribute to service improvement through pathway design, audit, teaching, and research, including projects on environment and air pollution. As a clinical leader, they will exemplify best practice, provide expert advice, and act as a referral point for complex asthma across the NEL network, while actively contributing to respiratory nursing management alongside the CNS team and wider MDT.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage their own tertiary asthma caseload and oversee shared care patients from referring sites.
• Assess and coordinate the management of complex asthmatic patients in collaboration with the Network Lead for Children's Asthma, secondary care leads across NEL, and the wider specialist asthma, respiratory, allergy and physiology MDT.
• Develop pathways to ensure children with complex and high-risk asthma are managed in the right setting, at the right time, and in the right way; audit and improve standards of asthma care across primary, secondary, and tertiary settings.
• Promote audit, teaching, and research activity locally and across the network, including projects on environment and air pollution.
• Act as a clinical leader, provide expert advice, and serve as a referral point for complex asthma across the NEL network.
• Collaborate with ED, inpatient, and PCCU teams to support integrated care.
• Support and advise secondary care asthma teams in Tower Hamlets and across the network.

About the employer

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.