Children\'s Asthma Advanced Nurse Practitioner

A Vacancy at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust. 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.

• 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.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state‑of‑the‑art hospital due to open in 2031/32 and we are also carrying out one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken. Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper‑based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined‑up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community‑based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs. We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award‑winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.

For further information about this role please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification. This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Nov 2025.