Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Paediatric Asthma Clinical Nurse Specialist will provide expert, evidence-based care to children and young people with asthma, undertaking holistic assessments, managing a specialist caseload, and running nurse-led clinics across acute, community, and primary care settings.

The role involves developing personalised asthma management plans, supporting self-management education, and ensuring safe prescribing and medication management.

The post holder will work collaboratively with families, GPs, schools, and the wider multidisciplinary team to coordinate care, address safeguarding concerns, and promote consistent best practice. They will contribute to service development through quality improvement, audit, data analysis, and implementation of national and local guidelines.

In addition, the role includes supporting colleagues through teaching, supervision, and leadership, while maintaining personal professional development and clinical competence. Effective, inclusive communication and accurate documentation are essential, alongside active participation in ICS network meetings, Trust initiatives, and multidisciplinary discussions to enhance asthma outcomes across the region.

Person specification

Education Qualifications & Skills

Essential criteria

• Registered Children's Nurse active on NMC register
• Student assessor or mentorship qualification
• Relevant BSc degree in nursing
• Professional development within paediatric Asthma
• Level 3 Safeguarding training
• Significant post registration experience working with children who have respiratory illnesses, allergies or asthma
• Sound knowledge of specialist paediatric asthma care, including pathophysiology, management protocols, and evidence-based practice
• Understanding of child protection procedures and safeguarding
• Ability to deliver allergy education and self-management support to children, young people, and families
• Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and lead clinical workload.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and listening skills
• Excellent problem solving and decision making skills
• Awareness of current NHS issues & appreciation of the issues surrounding governance & quality initiatives.
• Knowledge of NHS governance, quality initiatives, and ICS frameworks

Desirable criteria

• Experience working in the community setting including schools, early years settings and patients homes
• Experience managing a specialist caseload, including complex, high-risk, or severe asthma
• Experience or willingness to participate in audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives
• Relevant post-registration accredited clinical course in advanced assessment
• Leadership or management qualification
• Ability to lead clinical workload and change initiatives, both personally and as a facilitator
• Experience or willingness to participate in audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post registration experience working with children who have respiratory illnesses, allergies or asthma
• Excellent managerial, leadership and organisational skills
• Able to motivate and develop a multi-professional team
• Experience of teaching, training, mentoring, and precepting colleagues

Desirable criteria

• Experience working in the community setting including schools, early years settings and patients homes
• Experience of handling clinical incidents, complaints, and safeguarding issues
• Experience managing a specialist caseload, including complex, high-risk, or severe asthma
• Experience in quality improvement or service development projects

Important

• There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date, this will be due to a high volume of applications. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly (and your junk folder) as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
• Some roles may require weekend shift working across multiple sites
• We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Right to work

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