Specialist Nurse Childrens Respiratory

NHS; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust as a Specialist Nurse in Children’s Respiratory. This position offers an exciting opportunity to care for children with respiratory illnesses, working within a dynamic multi-disciplinary team. You will support patients and families while managing clinics and participating in audits and research. This role requires a degree-level qualification and experience in pediatric nursing, especially in respiratory care.

Qualifications

• Experience in nursing children with respiratory conditions preferred.
• Experience of management of case loads and running nurse-led clinics.
• Experience of supporting children, young people, and their families with respiratory illness.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist care for children with asthma, allergy, and cystic fibrosis.
• Manage a cohort of asthma patients in nurse-led and consultant clinics.
• Involvement in audit, research, and education for staff.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Counselling skills

Specialist knowledge of Respiratory medicine

Education

1st level Registered Nurse

RSCN/RN(child) - degree level or above

Teaching qualification in asthma and allergy

Evidence of post-basic respiratory education

Masters - working towards

Job description

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Nurse Childrens Respiratory

The closing date is 17 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and highly dynamic Paediatric nurse to join our respiratory specialist nursing team. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and the successful applicant will be expected to provide high levels of care to the child/adolescent and family. Experience in nursing children with medical conditions is preferable. Experience at band 6 is required.

This role encompasses three specialities: asthma, allergy, and cystic fibrosis. The post holder will be required to work between Kings Mill Hospital and Newark. You will manage a cohort of asthma patients in both nurse-led and consultant clinics, performing spirometry and FENO testing, as well as developing and monitoring asthma plans.

You will also be involved in audit and research, assist in leading a small team, participate in network meetings, and provide education to medical and nursing staff within the unit to improve quality and enhance care delivery.

Care delivered will include patient assessment, planning and implementing specialist care, and providing advice, support, and education in collaboration with the wider MDT, including child protection/safeguarding teams.

You will support colleagues at Nottingham University Hospital to ensure we offer support and guidance for children local to Sherwood Forest Hospitals in managing their needs around cystic fibrosis.

Apply now to join our team and make a difference in health care!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Specialist knowledge of Respiratory medicine
• Research awareness
• Knowledge and understanding of child protection policies and procedures
• Understanding of audit and research
• Counselling skills
• Experience of management of case loads and running nurse led clinics

Qualifications - Academic/Craft/Professional

• 1st level Registered Nurse
• RSCN/RN(child) - degree level or above
• With experience within paediatric respiratory disease
• Teaching qualification in asthma and allergy. Accredited at least 20 credits at first degree level. Or equivalent
• Evidence of post -basic respiratory education
• Masters - working towards

Further Training

• Mandatory updates

Experience

• Experience of working with respiratory patients
• Experience of supporting children, young people and their families with respiratory illness
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of delivering training to a wide range of professionals and families with respiratory illness

Contractual Requirements

• Continued professional development at level three
• Car Driver
• Ability to work with families, children and young people in their home environment
• Flexibility to cover the service, if clinics running late working outside office hours
• Working at KMH and Newark Hospital with clinics

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearper annum pro rata