Clinical Nurse Specialist - Asthma BiologicsNHS

Job summary

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated registered nurse to lead on our nationally commissioned and well established asthma biologics service. The service is ever expanding and is now treating patients with ground breaking asthma medications. The post holder will play a fundamental role in the work-up, administration of asthma biologic therapy and long-term management of our patients.

This role requires the post holder to have demonstrable specialist clinical and management skills and a special interest in patients living with asthma. You will work autonomously alongside our well-established multidisciplinary asthma team.

This role is available as a 12 month secondment or fixed term contract.

Main duties of the job

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 .

Job description

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

About us

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.