# Band 7 Paediatric Asthma Clinical Nurse Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-paediatric-asthma-clinical-nurse-specialist/a8eb641c-65eb-4ca5-b4e8-73c324032e9f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-paediatric-asthma-clinical-nurse-specialist/a8eb641c-65eb-4ca5-b4e8-73c324032e9f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St George's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-07T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-24T13:20:36.013Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Tooting_London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Paediatric_Asthma/Paediatric_Asthma-v8162206 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8162206?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting new role helping to empower children, young people and their families to manage their asthma and health care needs confidently and competently through the provision of specialist nursing care in an acute and community environment. To reduce the burden of asthma on children, their families and the health system by improving asthma management and understanding. The role involves working within a seamless specialist asthma / respiratory, medical and nursing service that is aimed at continuously improving standards of patient care and facilitating multi-professional working. This will be achieved through clinical practice, management, education, research and audit. The team will help ensure that the London Standards for Asthma in Children and Young People are met and exceeded. ### Main duties of the job - Maintain and contribute to setting, monitoring and audit of excellent standards of nursing working with the MDT. - Maintain personal contact with patients, relatives and carers being sensitive to their need for courtesy, dignity and privacy at all times. - To act as an advocate for the children, young people and families. - To provide education for children, young people, families, ward and ED staff. - To liaise with the Psychology Service. - To work closely with the Respiratory Physiology Team. - To run and maintain nurse-led asthma clinics both within St George’s Hospital and outreach clinics. - To maintain a referral pathway for the Asthma Service. - Co-ordinate the care of the caseload, maintain a safe patient environment, report any clinical situations to the line manager as necessary. - To provide personalised treatment plans. - Ensure good communication; maintain accurate and up to date nursing documentation and ensure that confidentiality is respected. Maintain documentation standards as per NMC guidelines. - Store, check and administer drugs in accordance with the Trust policy. - To be aware of and act as appropriate in relation to any safeguarding concerns with the Caseload, working within St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust policy. - To develop and implement clinical guidelines to optimise asthma care and treatment. - To ensure personal safety / team safety and report any adverse risks. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Management of children within an acute setting - Experience of caring for CYP with asthma and/or respiratory concerns - Working as an effective member of an MDT. - Evidence of experience in managing patients with wheeze or exacerbation of asthma - Clear understanding of safeguarding procedures - Evidence of providing written and verbal communication to children, young people, families and other healthcare professionals **Desirable** - To have evidence of service development - Previous community experience ### Trust Values **Essential** - Excellent - Kind - Responsible - Respectful ### General/ Other **Essential** - Motivated and demonstrates an enthusiasm for the specialty. - Reliable and well presented - Demonstrates a caring and sensitive approach to needs of patients/parents/ guardians and relatives. - Flexible attitude to ways and hours of working ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - To work as part of the MDT - Ability to organise and prioritise own workload - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – verbal and written. - Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the child or young person’s care according to their individual needs. - Able to teach children, young people, families, carers and other healthcare professionals about the care of children with wheeze or asthma. - Able to build effective relationships with clinicians and managers at all levels. - Demonstrates basic understanding of the management of wheeze/asthma - Up to date knowledge regarding national/local guidelines regarding management of wheeze/asthma - Proficient in the use of computers **Desirable** - Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance, audit and quality assurance. - Knowledge of research process - Experience of managing a database - Able to innovate and influence service development and delivery - Able to develop and implement clinical guidelines ### Organisational Management **Essential** - Ability to assess, plan and evaluate nursing care according to individual needs. - Ability to prioritise / adapt quickly and organise own workload. - Able to act up to cover senior team members. - Supervision of band 6 staff - Demonstrate the ability to work as part of the MDT. **Desirable** - Demonstrate the ability to use resources effectively. ### Professional and Clinical Qualifications **Essential** - RSCN/RN Child or equivalent. - Evidence of experienced practice either through degree level qualification or extensive clinical experience within the field of asthma or respiratory - Level 3 Safeguarding Children Training. - Prevent Training - PILS - Mentorship training - Level 7 module in Physical Assessment - Asthma Diploma **Desirable** - ARTP Spirometry portfolio for interpretation ## Documents - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2411) - [asthma cns job description (pdf, 440.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10463060) - [swl ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3045) - [asthma cns person specification (pdf, 376.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10463061) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.