# Respiratory 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/respiratory-nurse-specialist/bfbf9540-4d64-44c0-bee5-22c265b38bd0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/respiratory-nurse-specialist/bfbf9540-4d64-44c0-bee5-22c265b38bd0.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:** £58133.00 to £65261.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (currently week day working ( Monday - Friday)) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T08:31:31.760Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8290070 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8290070?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview To provide specialist respiratory assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care to a range of patients with acute and chronic respiratory conditions. The post links closely with SGH acute assessment areas, emergency department, respiratory nurses and chest clinics based at SGH and QMH. As well as linking with SWLCCG, GPs, community MDT teams and other partners such as Oxygen providers. ### Main duties of the job ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post-holder should provide a high-quality service to all respiratory patients within St George’s Hospital. The respiratory clinical nurse specialist will work as part of the multi-professional team in the: - Provision of out-patient nurse led clinics for respiratory conditions, including asthma, COPD, oxygen assessment - Provision of inpatient review of asthma/COPD in-patients - Support development of seamless patient’s pathways, eg – Inpatient to outpatients - Assessment for long term and ambulatory oxygen - Provide on-going support for patients requiring domiciliary Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV)* - Support asthma service and work alongside the severe Asthma MDT to provide care for patients with severe asthma including those requiring biologic therapy* *There will be an opportunity to undertake these roles within this JD but it would be to deliver care to patients requiring NIV OR Severe Asthma provision rather than staff undertaking both in the same role. In addition, the post holder will be expected to participate in the strategic development of the respiratory service by: - Being recognised as an expert in their field holding additional specialist knowledge and experience - Providing leadership in clinical practice for the professional team and peers and ensuring effective learning experience for students through provision of an educational environment - Working as a competent, autonomous advanced clinical nurse specialist. - Actively disseminating best practice through teaching, publication and conference presentations and participating in nursing research and national working parties The key components identified for the role of a advanced specialist nurse include: - Expert Clinical Practise. - Education. - Research & Audit. - Leadership and Management. ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - - Ability to lead and motivate others - - Remains updated with professional practice and new research - - Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession - - Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner - - Willingness to lead staff training - - Show evidence of being self-motivated - - Ability to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment **Desirable** - - Excellent IT skills - - Presentation skills - - Ability to run courses – internal/external ### Knowledge **Essential** - - Awareness of skill mix and service needs - - Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for physiotherapy services including experience of quality issues and audit - - Remains updated on professional practice and new research - - Clear understanding of safeguarding procedures - - Computer literacy ### Experience **Essential** - - Minimum of 3 year’s NHS experience relating to acute care or within respiratory setting. - - Evidence of NIV competence - - Broad range of experience at B5 and B6 level - - Ability to work independently and as part of a team. - - Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of respiratory patients demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning - - Experience of managing junior staff members. - - Experience of teaching in a clinical setting - - Experience of student supervision/ clinical education **Desirable** - - HDU or critical care experience - - Experience in caring for patients requiring acute NIV - - Experience in initiating and caring for patients requiring domiciliary NIV - - Experience of looking after patients with severe/difficult Asthma - - Experience of running research and audit programmes - - Experience of service development /quality improvement. ### Qualifications and Training **Essential** - - NMC Level 1 or Registered Nurse - - Degree (BSc) or equivalent in a health-related subject - - Advanced Clinical assessment skills accredited module or willing to undertake **Desirable** - - Leadership Training - - Degree (MSc) or willing to undertake - - Relevant Post registration course (e.g. respiratory/critical care/NIV). - - Non-Medical Prescriber - - Training in spirometry and FeNo testing - - CBG Training with blood gas analysis - - Smoking Cessation level 1/2 ## Documents - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2411) - [swl ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3045) - [band 7 respiratory nurse specialist (pdf, 200.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10607910) ## 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.