Job summary
Employer heading
Paediatric Respiratory and Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 6
Job overview
To be a nursing clinical and professional resource for paediatric respiratory and cystic fibrosis patients, their carers and the multi-professional team for the delivery of specialist nursing.
The postholder provides skills, knowledge and expertise in the care and management of children and young people with respiratory illness/cystic fibrosis. This will encompass inpatient, outpatient and home or school visits.
Main duties of the job
The postholder is responsible for supporting the direction of the Paediatric Respiratory Service with the MDT including education, audit, research and service development.
Also providing nursing support in the transition of this patient group to the adult services and further develop the existing transition process
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse RSCN/RN Child, Proven qualified experience
- Cystic Fibrosis course or willing to work towards
- Asthma management course or willing to work towards
- Post qualification work with paediatric respiratory conditions
Desirable criteria
- Community care experience
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Willingness to develop advanced clinical skills appropriate to paediatric respiratory medicine
- Good IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working independently
- Experience of quality improvement processes including audit, risk management and clinical governance
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Clinical credibility
- Ability to work independently, under pressure and as part of a team
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sara Powell
- Job title
- Matron for Women and Children
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07870 271519
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