Asthma Nurse Consultant
Closing date: 08 May 2026
An exciting opportunity to work as a Nurse Consultant to lead the CLEAR (Collaborative Leadership for Effective Asthma Referrals) Project. This 12‑month post involves pioneering a new outreach and referral model across Kent and Medway. The primary objective is to identify patients with severe asthma eligible for biologic therapies or to optimise difficult‑to‑treat asthma and create sustainable referral pathways into the Guy's Severe Asthma Centre.
Main duties of the job
The Nurse Consultant will work autonomously at an advanced level of practice, combining expert clinical knowledge with strategic leadership, service development, education, and system‑wide collaboration. The role requires close partnership working with primary care, secondary care, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), and multidisciplinary teams to optimise asthma care, address health inequalities, and leave a sustainable, embedded model of care at the end of the secondment.
Job responsibilities
* Proactive identification of uncontrolled asthma patients
* Increasing the quantity of suspected Severe Asthma patient review in primary care, by approximately 1024 patients.
* Increase quantity of appropriate patients referred to severe asthma specialist from Primary Care. Expected to be approximately 25% of reviewed patients.
* Improve quality of referral to severe asthma specialist from primary care and reduce rejected referral rate.
* Increase initiation of appropriate therapy where appropriate. It is expected that approximately 180 additional patients will be initiated on biologic therapy during the course of this project.
* Reduce overall exposure to Oral Corticosteroid.
* Supporting the education of clinicians involved with severe asthma care, to increase diagnosis, time to diagnosis, and quality of referral to severe asthma services.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* Evidence of recent and relevant publications in the field of asthma
* Non‑medical prescribing course
* Advanced assessment skills course
Experience
* Experience in managing own caseload and clinic in asthma
* Experience in supporting the education of clinicians involved with severe asthma care to increase the quality of referral to severe asthma services
* Experience of facilitating change by collaborating with stakeholders within the field of asthma to produce innovative practice and service development showing improved patient outcomes
Professional presentation
* Ability to frequently cope with working in a stressful environment with intense concentration for periods of up to 40 minutes at a time throughout the day
* Able to carry out concurrent activities (multi‑tasking) work in an unpredictable working pattern
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.
#J-18808-Ljbffr