Respiratory Nurse Specialist | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a Respiratory Nurse Specialist for a 12-month maternity cover. The role involves providing specialized care to patients with chronic lung diseases and participating in multidisciplinary clinics. Candidates should have experience in respiratory nursing and a commitment to further education. You will work within a supportive team, ensuring high-quality patient care and adhering to all professional standards. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills and contribute to a leading healthcare organization.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Respiratory Nurse Specialist.
• Commitment to further education in relevant areas.
• Ability to work in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist Respiratory care to a variety of patients.
• Develop new disease-specific clinics for respiratory conditions.
• Advise clinicians on patient care implementation and evaluation.

Skills

Respiratory care

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Patient care

Clinical examination skills

Education

Master's level qualifications in clinical examination

Non-medical prescribing

Job description

Please note- it is the applicants responsibility to seek authorisation from their current manager to be released for the secondment before a formal application is made.

We are looking for a new enthusiastic, innovative candidate who would fit into this highly motivated team. You will be joining an exciting, well established, experienced Respiratory Nurse Specialist Team of 3 whole time equivalents that benefits from superb clinical and managerial leadership, from the wider Respiratory team.

This post is for maternity cover for 12 months.

You will be part of a dynamic, hardworking clinical team that works together to provide Respiratory nursing support to patients with a wide range of respiratory disease. You will provide vital support to these patients, their carers and families; with close links to our Community Partners, you will also be made to feel valued as you are developed to your full potential by this Trust.

The department is looking to introduce new disease specific multidisciplinary clinics like Asthma, Bronchiectasis and interstitial lung disease. The successful candidate will be part of the nursing team that delivers this service.

You will ideally have experience as a Respiratory Nurse Specialist and be able to demonstrate commitment to further education, ideally clinical examination, diagnostics at Masters Level and non-medical prescribing, or be working towards these qualifications.

The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.

To work within a multi-disciplinary team and deliver high quality specialist Respiratory care to a broad spectrum of patients living with chronic lung disease, within both the inpatient and outpatient setting. The post holder will be expected to advise primary and secondary care clinicians as appropriate about the setting up, implementation, delivery and evaluation of patient care utilising evidence based practice. In addition, the post holder will be expected to provide a service in accordance with national, regional and local guidance, standards and protocols and policies to ensure the most positive outcome for the patients are achieved.

The post holder will abide by legal requirements and statutory rules relating to practice and promote and maintain standards of professional practice in accordance with The Nursing and Midwifery Councils (NMC) Code and Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice.

Key relationships include, Matron, Director of Nursing, Heads of Quality, Directorate Manager, Consultants and Junior Medical Staff, Nursing Staff, Allied Health Professionals, Administrative and Clerical Support Staff, Professional and Technical Staff.

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside and one of the few in the country to achieve OUTSTANDING rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across the North West, North Wales, and Isle of Man. We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of what we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Achievements

• Acute Trust of the Year HSJ Awards November 2019
• Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
• Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
• Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

NHS Staff Survey 2021 Highlights

• Standard of care
• Best place to work
• Care of patients being the Trust’s priority
• Staff engagement
• Staff morale
• Compassionate & inclusive
• Providing safe environments for staff

Please see attached Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our benefits for staff. Accessible version available upon request.

This advert closes on Thursday 8 Jan 2026

Job Responsibilities

• To observe the provisions of and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures.
• To actively participate in the annual performance review to identify personal development needs.
• To attend Trust Statutory and Mandatory training sessions as required and any other training courses relevant to the post.
• To fully comply with the relevant sections of the Health and Safety at Work Act. They must also understand and implement St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Hospitals Trust “Statement of Policy on Health and Safety at Work” and the Trust corporate “Health and Safety Policies and Procedures”. You are required to follow all applicable rules and procedures relating to Health and Safety at Work and to take all responsible precautions to avoid actions.
• To keep up to date with the requirements of information governance; undertake mandatory training and follow Trust policies and procedures to ensure that trust information is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. You must maintain the confidentiality of information about service user staff and organisational business in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Caldicott principles.
• To ensure that when creating, managing and sharing information records it is done in an appropriate way, subject to statutory requirements and agreed security and confidentiality policies, procedures and guidelines. All employees are responsible for implementing and maintaining data quality, ensuring that records are legible and attributable and that the record keeping is contemporaneous.
• To be aware of the confidential aspects of the post. Breaches of confidentiality will result in disciplinary action that may involve dismissal. The post holder should also be aware that, regardless of any action taken by the employing authority, breaches of confidentiality could result in civil action for damages.
• All employees will be treated with respect by management, colleagues, patients and visitors and equally staff will treat management, colleagues, patients and visitors with the same level of respect. Staff will be supported to challenge any discriminatory behaviour that may be based on differences in race, disability, language, culture, religion, sexuality, age, and gender or employment status.
• To be responsible for the prevention and control of infection within their own area. To attend Infection Control Induction training and mandatory Infection control training and follow all, Trust policies, procedures and guidelines relating to Infection Control.
• To adhere to relevant Code of Practice of Professional body (if appropriate).
• The duties contained in this job description are not intended to be exhaustive. The duties and responsibilities of this post are likely to evolve in line with the Trust’s continued organisational development.
• The post holder must be flexible in the duties performed and it is expected that similar duties, not specifically listed above, will be carried out as required and may be cross site.