Children's Community Asthma Nurse

Job overview

EPUT

COMMUNITY ASTHMA NURSE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

BAND 6

Part Time - 22.5 hours

We are delighted to announce exciting new opportunities to join the Community Asthma Service for Children and Young People within Mid and South Essex Community Collaborative (MSECC)

The Mid and South Essex Community Collaborative (MSECC) brings together the three main providers for community services: Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT), North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) and Provide Community Interest Company CIC in a Community Health Services Provider Collaborative.

In order to drive this transformation we now require  asthma nurses to provide expert advice and education to support diagnosis and management of children and young people with Asthma within the community setting.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for highly motivated, innovative, and flexible children’s trained nurses to join our community asthma service. The successful candidates will be an RSCN or RN Child with substantial specialist knowledge and experience of supporting children and young people with asthma. The applicants must be well organised and able to work autonomously on their own initiative and be excellent communicators embracing family partnership care.

The role includes extensive collaborative working with Health Visitors, School Nurses, GPs, Primary Care Networks, Paediatric Consultants and Asthma Nurse Specialists to ensure the delivery of relevant, co-ordinated and high-quality care solutions for children and families with asthma within the community setting.

In return we will reward you with an attractive salary and benefits package which includes excellent pension provision and a full induction and orientation period with ongoing clinical supervision included. Our training package offers a wide range of relevant training and development opportunities to enable you to advance your skills and career within a progressive framework.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide specialist education and training to improve the management of care for children and young people with Asthma