Paediatric Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS; Tooting; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a Paediatric Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist to join their dedicated team. This role focuses on improving the quality of care for children with respiratory conditions, ensuring their safe management within the community. You will be responsible for providing professional leadership, working closely with multidisciplinary teams, and facilitating early discharge for patients. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on children's health outcomes while working in a supportive and collaborative environment. If you are passionate about paediatric care and have the expertise in respiratory conditions, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in paediatric respiratory care.
• Demonstrated ability to teach and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership in respiratory care for children.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient care.

Skills

Teaching Skills

Communication Skills

Innovative Service Delivery

Education

RN Child

Degree Educated

Asthma Diploma

Paediatric Respiratory Diploma

Job description

Paediatric Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The team facilitates children's early discharge from hospital, prevents admission and ensures the appropriate professionals are in place for the child to be managed within a safe environment in the community. The team works in close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams both in a primary and secondary care setting. The team also provides education and support within an acute setting. The CNS sits within the Respiratory team, focusing on improving care to children with respiratory conditions on outcomes qualitative as well as quantitatively. To be knowledgeable about all respiratory care and to be fully aware of medical treatments and current research trials. To maintain respiratory clinics in conjunction with paediatric consultants whereby the problems and needs of patients and their carers are appropriately addressed including the transition of patients into adult clinics.

Main duties of the job

• To provide professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the specialty of respiratory care and to act as a resource for education and clinical expertise in hospital and community settings.
• This will include working with tracheostomies and complex respiratory diseases.
• Contributing to the prevention of lifelong respiratory disease, hospital admission, or extended stay in hospital. Promote within the client group the self-management of their health needs.
• To liaise with members of the multi-professional healthcare team to provide a coordinated specialist service for children with complex respiratory diseases.
• To develop a service in conjunction with Advanced Clinical Practitioners, nurse consultants, respiratory physiotherapists, and respiratory consultants to manage children with complex needs in hospital and at home and to facilitate early discharge and readmission when required.
• To be familiar with research, clinical protocols, and relevant investigations and procedures employed in the management of respiratory care.
• To be competent in the assessment and management of respiratory care with regard to the specialist clinics run in conjunction with consultant paediatricians.
• To develop appropriate resource and teaching strategies with children/families and/or staff in the clinical, social, and educational settings.
• To promote child/family autonomy through education and support enabling the child/family to make informed choices about their own care.

About us

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more person specification information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• RN Child
• Degree Educated
• Asthma Diploma
• Paediatric Respiratory Diploma

Experience

• Two years post registration experience in managing children with respiratory disorders
• Demonstrate clear understanding of the respiratory CNS within an MDT setting
• Previous community experience

Skills

• Able to teach children, families, and multidisciplinary teams about the care of a child with respiratory disorders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to innovate and influence service delivery
• Teaching qualification

Knowledge

• Evidence of professional updating
• Up to date knowledge regarding national/local guidelines related to respiratory disorders
• Previous experience of audit/data
• Understanding of clinical governance and risk assessment
• Able to prioritise workload
• Previous research knowledge, willing to undertake research

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.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Georges University Hospital foundation NHS Trust hospital

Paediatric Respiratory Advanced Nurse Practitioner

£54,320 to £60,981 a year per annum inc HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-6951271-GO-SMB-A

Job locations

St Georges University Hospital foundation NHS Trust hospital