Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St George's Hospital Town Tooting, London Salary £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 15/03/2026 23:59
Paediatric Asthma Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Job overview
This is an exciting new role helping to empower children, young people and their families to manage their asthma and health care needs confidently and competently through the provision of specialist nursing care in an acute and community environment.
To reduce the burden of asthma on children, their families and the health system by improving asthma management and understanding.
The role involves working within a seamless specialist asthma / respiratory, medical and nursing service that is aimed at continuously improving standards of patient care and facilitating multi-professional working.
This will be achieved through clinical practice, management, education, research and audit.
The team will help ensure that the London Standards for Asthma in Children and Young People are met and exceeded.
Main duties of the job
* Maintain and contribute to setting, monitoring and audit of excellent standards of nursing working with the MDT.
* Maintain personal contact with patients, relatives and carers being sensitive to their need for courtesy, dignity and privacy at all times.
* To act as an advocate for the children, young people and families.
* To provide education for children, young people, families, ward and ED staff.
* To liaise with the Psychology Service.
* To work closely with the Respiratory Physiology Team.
* To run and maintain nurse-led asthma clinics both within St George’s Hospital and outreach clinics.
* To maintain a referral pathway for the Asthma Service.
* Co-ordinate the care of the caseload, maintain a safe patient environment, report any clinical situations to the line manager as necessary.
* To provide personalised treatment plans.
* Ensure good communication; maintain accurate and up to date nursing documentation and ensure that confidentiality is respected. Maintain documentation standards as per NMC guidelines.
* Store, check and administer drugs in accordance with the Trust policy.
* To be aware of and act as appropriate in relation to any safeguarding concerns with the Caseload, working within St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust policy.
* To develop and implement clinical guidelines to optimise asthma care and treatment.
* To ensure personal safety / team safety and report any adverse risks.
Working for our organisation
With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
Person specification
Professional and Clinical Qualifications
* RSCN/RN Child or equivalent.
* Evidence of experienced practice either through degree level qualification or extensive clinical experience within the field of asthma or respiratory
* Prevent Training
* PILS
* Level 7 module in Physical Assessment
* Asthma Diploma
* ARTP Spirometry portfolio for interpretation
Experience
* Management of children within an acute setting
* Experience of caring for CYP with asthma and/or respiratory concerns
* Working as an effective member of an MDT.
* Evidence of experience in managing patients with wheeze or exacerbation of asthma
* Clear understanding of safeguarding procedures
* Evidence of providing written and verbal communication to children, young people, families and other healthcare professionals
* To have evidence of service development
* Previous community experience
Skills and Knowledge
* To work as part of the MDT
* Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – verbal and written.
* Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the child or young person’s care according to their individual needs.
* Able to teach children, young people, families, carers and other healthcare professionals about the care of children with wheeze or asthma.
* Able to build effective relationships with clinicians and managers at all levels.
* Demonstrates basic understanding of the management of wheeze/asthma
* Up to date knowledge regarding national/local guidelines regarding management of wheeze/asthma
* Proficient in the use of computers
* Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance, audit and quality assurance.
* Knowledge of research process
* Experience of managing a database
* Able to innovate and influence service development and delivery
* Able to develop and implement clinical guidelines
Organisational Management
* Ability to assess, plan and evaluate nursing care according to individual needs.
* Ability to prioritise / adapt quickly and organise own workload.
* Able to act up to cover senior team members.
* Supervision of band 6 staff
* Demonstrate the ability to work as part of the MDT.
* Demonstrate the ability to use resources effectively.
General/ Other
* Motivated and demonstrates an enthusiasm for the specialty.
* Reliable and well presented
* Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to needs of patients/parents/ guardians and relatives.
* Flexible attitude to ways and hours of working
Trust Values
* Kind
* Responsible
* Respectful
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Name Joy Rowse Job title Paediatric Respiratory Advanced Nurse Practitioner Email address joy.rowse@stgeorges.nhs.uk Telephone number 0208 725 4216 Additional information
Betsi Jones
Nurse Consultant Paediatrics
02087254636
Betsi.jones@stgeorges.nhs.uk
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