BANK - Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist Asthma

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Becket House Town London Salary £29.76 - £33.38 per hour Salary period Hourly Closing 15/10/2026 23:59

BANK - Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist Asthma

NHS AfC: Band 7

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

As part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Evelina London is there for children, young people and women from London to South East England and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world.

Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and throughout our local community, continues to grow. We support families from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life.

Right in the heart of vibrant London, we benefit from excellent transport links, we have staff working here from the local areas, spanning across London, and further afield into the home counties.

We strive to recruit and retain staff who are motivated to develop and learn with us as we continually strive to ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe, and focused on women, children and their families.

Here is a snippet of what our staff say about us, and working here:

“I have learnt what it means to be an outstanding nurse and I would like to contribute further alongside passionate and competent nurses.”

“The coronavirus pandemic made me realise the sheer dedication of my colleagues and their selflessness to put their patients before themselves, showing the level of integrity they all maintain.”

“I see how supportive the team are and how important it is to provide the best quality care for our patients. Knowing there will always be a friendly face supports why I love working at Evelina London.”

Main duties of the job

We are seeking to recruit an asthma clinical nurse specialist (CNS) who will be working within an integrated neighbourhood model supporting the delivery of a pilot to identify and manage children and young people (CYP) at high risk of asthma exacerbations.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will act as a lead specialist within paediatric asthma across community and primary care settings, contributing to an integrated neighbourhood team (INT) approach. This includes working collaboratively with GP practices, paediatricians, pharmacists and wider partners to proactively identify, review and manage CYP through population health management and risk stratification approaches.

You will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. Also ensures the safety and wellbeing of services users and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person-centred care principles.

You will benefit from excellent support from the existing CNS team and Asthma consultants & we will offer you a comprehensive range of experience and development opportunities.

If you feel you have the skills, enthusiasm and ambition to lead this fantastic team, we would love to hear from you.

Working for our organisation

At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and creating a sense of belonging and fun for all our teams caring for women, children and families; as we continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs, we recognise the huge benefit of our workforce being reflective of the diverse communities we serve.

We are committed to supporting the professional development of staff, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge we offer amazing resources to help support our staff’s emotional wellbeing and resilience.

If you have what it takes to be an amazing Evelina Nurse, and have the appetite to join a forward thinking, positive environment, where aspiration and innovation are encouraged, we want you to join us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification for full details. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Abigail Salmon at abigail.salmon@nhs.net

Person specification

Professional / Statutory Registration

• RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
• To have or working towards a Masters degree

Qualifications / Education

• BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience.
• Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training. Experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
• Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience.
• Leadership course.
• Diploma in Asthma Care.
• Relevant community nursing qualification.
• Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care.
• Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice.
• Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level.
• Experience of delivering patient advocacy.
• Experience of audit, research and evidence-based care.
• Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator.

Skills / Knowledge / Ability

• Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills is specialty.
• Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise awareness of their condition.
• IT Skills

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Due to recent changes inthe UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further informationabout eligibilityis available on the UK Government website.

Your e-mail address is important to us -We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name Abigail Salmon Job title Business Support, Population Health Management Email address abigail.salmon@nhs.net Telephone number 07748 784482

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