Children's Asthma Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

Are you a highly skilled and motivated Advanced Practitioner (AP) with expertise in paediatric asthma care?

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is recruiting a Specialist Paediatric Advanced Practitioner to lead an exciting new asthma service as part of a 6-month pilot. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in improving asthma care for children and young people (CYP) by delivering rapid post-discharge support by conducting a 48-hour review. This review will include providing an inhaler technique assessment, reviewing or developing a Personalised Asthma Action Plan (PAAP) and delivering tailored asthma education to the child/young person and their family.

Using your clinical expertise, you will work collaboratively across acute, primary, and community settings, aiming to reduce hospital admissions and re-admissions and improve long-term outcomes for CYP with asthma.

Main duties of the job

• Conduct 48-hour post-discharge asthma reviews for CYP aged 5 - 16 years Perform clinical assessments, risk stratification, and deliver tailored asthma education to CYP and their families Assess inhaler technique Develop/review Personalised Asthma Action Plans (PAAPs) Optimise pharmacological asthma treatment in line with BTS/NICE 2024 guidelines Collaborate closely with the A&E department, children’s ward and primary care to ensure seamless care pathways Support data collection, audit, quality improvement initiatives to evaluate the pilot and shape future service delivery

The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) has emphasised the importance of timely post-attack management stating: “Recognise asthma attacks as significant events and ensure the correct pathways are in place for a detailed ‘post attack review’ to be conducted within 48 hours. This should be undertaken by an appropriately trained professional to identify and deal with modifiable risk factors to prevent future attacks”.

This pilot also anticipates the upcoming refresh of the NHS England Bundle of Care for Children and Young People with Asthma, expected in summer 2025, which will introduce a new structured three-stage approach to post-attack management.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification