Paediatric Asthma Clinical Nurse Specialist | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 April 2026 |
| Location: | Tooting, London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7698644/200-7698644-GO-SMB |
Summary
This is an exciting new role helping to empower children, young people and their families to manage their asthma and health care needs confidently and competently through the provision of specialist nursing care in an acute and community environment.
To reduce the burden of asthma on children, their families and the health system by improving asthma management and understanding.
The role involves working within a seamless specialist asthma / respiratory, medical and nursing service that is aimed at continuously improving standards of patient care and facilitating multi-professional working.
This will be achieved through clinical practice, management, education, research and audit.
The team will help ensure that the London Standards for Asthma in Children and Young People are met and exceeded.
• Maintain and contribute to setting, monitoring and audit of excellent standards of nursing working with the MDT.
• Maintain personal contact with patients, relatives and carers being sensitive to their need for courtesy, dignity and privacy at all times.
• To act as an advocate for the children, young people and families.
• To provide education for children, young people, families, ward and ED staff.
• To liaise with the Psychology Service.
• To work closely with the Respiratory Physiology Team.
• To run and maintain nurse-led asthma clinics both within St George’s Hospital and outreach clinics.
• To maintain a referral pathway for the Asthma Service.
• Co-ordinate the care of the caseload, maintain a safe patient environment, report any clinical situations to the line manager as necessary.
• To provide personalised treatment plans.
• Ensure good communication; maintain accurate and up to date nursing documentation and ensure that confidentiality is respected. Maintain documentation standards as per NMC guidelines.
• Store, check and administer drugs in accordance with the Trust policy.
• To be aware of and act as appropriate in relation to any safeguarding concerns with the Caseload, working within St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust policy.
• To develop and implement clinical guidelines to optimise asthma care and treatment.
• To ensure personal safety / team safety and report any adverse risks.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Mar 2026
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