An exciting opportunity to work with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) for an experienced and highly motivated Nurse Consultant to lead the CLEAR (CollaborativeLeadership forEffectiveAsthmaReferrals) Project. This is a 12-month post.
The postholder will act as the sole clinical and strategic lead for the CLEAR project, pioneering a new outreach and referral model across Kent and Medway. The primary objective is to identify patients with severe asthma who are eligible for biologic therapies or to optimise difficult‑to‑treat asthma and to create effective, sustainable referral pathways into the Guy’s Severe Asthma Centre.
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.
Key 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
* Initiate appropriate therapy where appropriate – expected that approximately 180 additional patients will be initiated on biologic therapy during the course of this project
* Reduce overall exposure to Oral Corticosteroid
* Support the education of clinicians involved with severe asthma care, to increase diagnosis, time to diagnosis, and quality of referral to severe asthma services
This advert closes on Friday 8 May 2026.
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