Clinical Nurse Specialist: Paediatric Respiratory and Asthma

Job overview

We are seeking a dynamic Clinical Nurse Specialist for this exciting role within the West London Children's Healthcare Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Asthma Service. The service provides multi- disciplinary care for babies, children and young people with complex respiratory conditions.

You will be part of the multi-disciplinary team delivering this service, contributing your expert assessment, intervention and advice to the diagnostic process and patient pathway. This role has an academic research component with 50% clinical time and 50% research and academic time, funded through the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

You will be joining a strong team of Nursing, Midwifery, Allied Health Professionals and Pharmacists (NMAHPPs) leading and delivering research at West London Children’s Healthcare and will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across Imperial College’s Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health (PaeCH).

The role is based primarily at St Mary's Hospital and will work across WLCH sites.

You will have opportunities to lead on both discipline specific and inter-professional development projects, demonstrating your leadership and innovation.

If you have clinical expertise within children’s paediatric respiratory care, have leadership experience, are innovative with enthusiasm for development, and an ability to think creatively, this could be your next opportunity.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will act as an expert practitioner in asthma care, providing education, training, and clinical leadership to the wider workforce across both organisations.
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues and partner organisations across the NWL ICS, including community services, primary care, education, and public health, the role will promote integrated working and ensure children and young people with asthma are managed in the right setting, at the right time, and in accordance with evidence-based standards.
• As a Band 7 Senior Clinician Researcher the post holder will also provide effective research activities within Paediatric Respiratory.
• This post covers both project planning involving application for ethics or other governance approval, co-ordinating and undertaking research projects within a specialist field under some supervision.
• You will instigate, initiate and install systems that support effective development of research activity to comply with good clinical practice and the research governance framework

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.