Asthma Nurse SpecialistNHS

Job summary

We are seeking to appoint an innovative and enthusiastic Community Children's and Young People's Asthma Nurse Specialist in Bexley and Greenwich.The Community CYP Asthma service is integrated with the existing Community Children's Nursing and Hospital at Home Team, who are part of an integrated network of services for children and young people in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care.

The post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service for children and young people with asthma, ensuring patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. The post holder will lead the specialist service and demonstrate a high level of expertise within the Asthma service, providing advice, education, treatment and support to health care professionals and patients.

This post may require unsocial hours working as part of the CCN roster for weekend working, on-call for end of life care.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring the Community CYP Asthma Service (2-19 years) provides a high quality, evidence based locally appropriate service to families.
• Identifying new theories, policies and guidelines relating to Asthma care in the community; disseminating research findings and developing local policies and standards accordingly.
• Providing professional and clinical leadership to all children's community nursing staff, ensuring that they are engaged with and adhering to local policies, guidelines and expectations.
• Assessing nursing care needs, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of nursing care for children and young people with asthma on the caseload.
• Working in partnership with the acute setting to promote ongoing monitoring and support for children, young people and their families and likewise with the GPs in Bexley and Bexley and Greenwich.
• Facilitate clear communication with children, young people and their families, colleagues and other community professional enabling planned care to take place effectively.
• Act as designated resource to children, young people and their families within the case load /sphere of practice, multidisciplinary professionals and other community services.
• To be an expert and knowledgeable practitioner within the Specialist Asthma service ensuring the provision of high-quality evidence-based asthma care for the children, young person and their families from diagnosis and through to the transition to adult services.

Job description

Please see attached Community Childrens and Young Peoples Asthma Nurse Specialist Job Description. Please do not hesitate to make contact with us to discuss further.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care