Paediatric Asthma Nurse Specialist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our tertiary asthma service and specialist children's respiratory nursing team. The post holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering expert asthma care at the Royal London Hospital and across the North East London (NEL) network, while supporting and advising secondary care teams.

They will independently manage their own tertiary asthma caseload and shared care patients from referring sites, assessing and coordinating complex cases in partnership with the Network Lead for Children's Asthma, secondary care colleagues, and the wider respiratory, allergy, and physiology MDT. The role also involves liaison with ED, inpatient, and PCCU teams.

Working collaboratively, the post holder will help develop care pathways to ensure children with severe asthma receive timely, appropriate management. They will contribute to service improvement through pathway design, audit, teaching, and research, including projects on environment and air pollution.

As a clinical leader, they will exemplify best practice, provide expert advice, and act as a referral point for complex asthma across the NEL network, while actively contributing to respiratory nursing management alongside the CNS team and wider MDT.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to join part of our expanding asthma service and team of Children's respiratory nurse specialists. The post holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to deliver high level specialist asthma care across the Northeast London Integrated Care System network area (NEL-ICS), and to support and advise the secondary care asthma teams in Tower Hamlets and across the network.

The post holder will be expected to work independently leading and managing his/her own asthma patient cohort. The post holder is expected to have or develop the skills and ability to assess and coordinate the management of complex asthmatic patients in conjunction with the Network Lead for Children's Asthma, the secondary care leads across NEL, and the wider specialist asthma, respiratory, allergy and physiology MDT. They will develop pathways to ensure children with complex and high risk asthma are managed in the right setting, at the right time, and in the right way. Through these pathways they will audit and improve standards of asthma care across primary and secondary as well as tertiary settings, by way of the promotion of audit, teaching, and research activity both locally and across the network.

The post holder will highlight and exemplify best practice, being a resource for advice and conduit for referral and assessment of children with complex asthma for the NEL network.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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