Job overview

The post holder will lead a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists working to support the respiratory service at Wye Valley NHS Trust. The post holder will be responsible and accountable for the provision, management and continued development of a specialist nursing service for patients with a variety of respiratory conditions.

There will be extensive line management responsibilities for the CNSs working throughout the respiratory pathway. Nursing practice will be delivered at an advanced level and will include complex assessment of patients, counselling skills and advanced knowledge of the treatment of COPD, asthma, lung cancer, bronchiectasis, ILD, ventilation, immunotherapy for patients who have bee, wasp and pollen allergies – (including up-titration of their programmes) and other more general respiratory conditions. The post holder will lead, oversee and provide an expert advisory role for the countywide Home Oxygen Assessment and Review Service. 

Main duties of the job

We are seeking applications from experienced respiratory nurses able to demonstrate and evidence proven leadership skills and service development. We are a rapidly expanding CNS team with lots of opportunity for you to make a difference to patients by ensuring the services provided are of the highest quality and evidenced based, to ultimately provide a quality of care we would want for ourselves, our families and friends. We welcome candidates with a sub specialty interest.

The post holder will lead a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists working to support the respiratory service at Wye Valley NHS Trust. The post holder will be responsible and accountable for the provision, management and continued development of a specialist nursing service for patients with a variety of respiratory conditions. There will be extensive line management responsibilities for the CNSs working throughout the respiratory pathway. Nursing practice will be delivered at an advanced level and will include complex assessment of patients, counselling skills and advanced knowledge of the treatment of COPD, asthma, lung cancer, bronchiectasis, ILD, ventilation,  immunotherapy for patients who have bee, wasp and pollen allergies – (including up-titration of their programmes) and other more general respiratory conditions. The post holder will lead, oversee and provide an expert advisory role for the countywide Home Oxygen Assessment and Review Service.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals 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 wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its 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.