Job overview

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

The post holder will be a member of the Community children’s nursing team delivering nursing services for 0–19-year-olds in Greenwich and Bexley, within guidelines for children and young people.

To provide a high quality and efficient respiratory diagnostic testing (including Spirometry, reversibility testing and FeNO testing) within the Bexley and Greenwich community respiratory hub.

The post holder will be based within the community. Duties will include the routine respiratory testing, clerical input of patient and test details into the departmental computer network, sending out of diagnostics test results and filing of paperwork and clinical material and answering telephone enquiries.

This role requires you to travel between community sites in Greenwich and Bexley boroughs. 

Competency assessment, training and study days will be provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

The CCN Respiratory Hub offers objective testing for asthma for children aged 6 years and up across Bexley and Greenwich. This supports primary and secondary care by achieving early quality assured diagnosis of asthma for CYP.

• To work as part of the team providing nursing assessments and interventions to children and young people.
• To be able to perform a wide range of standard and complex tests and procedures including fractional exhaled nitrous oxide (FeNo) and spirometry with bronchodilator reversibility testing.
• Ensuring that diagnostics are undertaken safely and in a timely manner, reporting and documenting results appropriately and in line with legislation, policies and procedures.
• To work independently under indirect supervision of the asthma clinical nurse specialist across a variety of settings in the community.
• To refer children to acute and other services as appropriate and required
• To facilitate health promotion and basic teaching and training to children, young people and their families within the scope of practice.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care