Clinical Nurse Specialist - Asthma Biologics

This role requires excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across the multidisciplinary team and engage confidently with a diverse range of patients and carers.The successful candidate will be self-motivated, proactive and committed to contributing to service development and continuous improvement initiatives.

Experience in an ambulatory setting is desirable, and it is essential for you have confidence in working autonomously delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care .

The main focus of the role will be leading on our asthma biologics service:

• Represent the nursing voice in our asthma biologic MDM meetings
• Biologics referral triage and booking
• Telephone clinics to ensure patients are prepared to initiate biologic medications
• Face-to-face nurse-led biologics administration clinics
• Educate patients on self-administration of the medication with the aim to transition patients to self-administration in the community
• Co-ordinate with pharmacy and home care
• Manage patient queries and complications

There will also be opportunities to contribute towards the wider asthma and respiratory teams:

• Contribute to the collection of data for national audits
• Support in teaching - clinic to national level
• Assisting in managing our busy severe asthma helpline

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Essential: - RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality; - 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.

Desirable: - To have or working towards a masters degree; - To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course

Essential: - 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; - Experience of delivering patient advocacy; - Experience of audit, research & evidence- based care; - Experience of managing a team or caseload

Desirable: - Experience delivering nurse-led clinics; - Service development experience; - Experience working within an outpatient environment

Essential: - Specialist clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty.; - Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition.; - Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal & communication skills; - Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care

Desirable: - Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings; - Undertaken clinical & nursing research