Job overview
Are you a motivated and compassionate registered children’s nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your specialist skills? We are delighted to offer a 12-month secondment, as an Allergy Assistant Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) within the dynamic and supportive Allergy CNS Team at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
This is a fantastic chance to gain experience in a specialist nursing role within a nationally recognised paediatric allergy service. The role is open to Band 5 registered children’s nurses who have completed their NHS preceptorship.
Main duties of the job
As an Assistant Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will play an integral part in supporting children and young people with a range of allergies. You will be working closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide expert care, education, and support to patients and their families.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to enhance their clinical knowledge and build experience in a supportive team environment.
We are seeking a nurse who is:
· Registered Children’s Nurse
· Enthusiastic, organised, and eager to learn
· A confident communicator with strong interpersonal and written skills
· Passionate about delivering high-quality, family-centred care
· Ideally experience in paediatric allergy or long-term conditions
· Ideally has access to a car as some clinics take place off-site across Bristol
The Allergy CNS Team is a small but innovative group committed to improving care for children with allergic conditions. You will be supported with induction, supervision, and learning opportunities throughout your secondment. This post also provides a strong foundation for future career progression into specialist nursing roles.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to an exciting, patient-focused service, we’d love to hear from you and apply today.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details, please see the job description and personal specification document attached to this advert.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Desirable criteria
* Appropriate post registration experience in nursing speciality /allergy
* Proven commitment and experience, evidence in teaching
* Experience of undertaking research or audit
* Evidence of commitment to research based practice or evidence of project work undertaken
* Experience as preceptor / mentor
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
* Organisation and management skills
* Teaching
* Ability to work effectively under pressure
* Ability to problem solve
* Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service
* Ability to work alone or as part of a team
* Ability to cope with emotional issues presented in the course of work and to support others
* Knowledge of national and local specialty specific issues
* IT skills including use of email and Microsoft office packages
* Act as a role model and as a mentor/assessor
* Innovative and participates with practice and policy change
* A Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care awareness of professional responsibilities to self and others
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
* Awareness of current national changes in nursing / NHS
* Be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
* RGN.1st Level or relevant children’s qualification
* Current NMC Registration
* 1st Degree In nursing or health related subject, willing to undertake/ working towards
Desirable criteria
* Qualification in Teaching and Assessing
* Qualification / Short course in Allergy management
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
· As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
· The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
· UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
· To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
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