Job vacancy: Band 6 Specialist Children's Respiratory Nurse, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Salisbury

Job summary

Main area: Nursing
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week
Job ref: 269-SFT9089

Employer: Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Salisbury Hospital
Town: Salisbury
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per anum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/05/2025 23:59

Band 6 Specialist Children's Respiratory Nurse

Band 6

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

Current RN child registration - Degree or evidence of working at level (6 or 7).
Registered on part 8 or 215 of the NMC register.
Completion of Asthma Care for CYP, Tier 3
Evidence of post registration CPD
Provision of children’s nursing to children with respiratory conditions and illness.
Evidence of working in an acute paediatric setting
Confidence in delivering health and wellbeing promotion for children and young people.
Confidence in applying good safeguarding practice to all children and young people.
Maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role.
IT competencies to deliver the role
Ability to develop and maintain record keeping systems and procedures.
Leadership - Flexibility, creativity and motivation towards service developments
Ability to assess and treat patients with complex needs and formulate appropriate treatment plans and solutions.
Using evidenced based nursing practice and engagement in research.
Skilled in organising resources and establishing priorities.
Working within a multidisciplinary team.
Excellent Communication Skills

Desirable criteria

Relevant post registration qualification in education and/or mentorship
Completion of Asthma Care for CYP, Tier 4
Completion and interpretation of paediatric spirometry course
Working toward independent prescribing
Delivery of teaching to other professions.
Working in community or primary care setting or collaboration with professions in these settings.
Experience in Quality Improvement projects or change initiatives.
Membership of a network of paediatric respiratory or asthma nurses (NPRANG) and SPRiNG (Southern Paediatric Respiratory interest Group).
Responsive and flexible attitude and approach
Evidence of recent post registration training relevant to paediatric respiratory.
Awareness of the Government’s priorities for social services and NHS partnership working and NHS changes and their effect on delivery of patient care
Completion, or intention to complete, a Leadership course.

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-

Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
Cycle to work scheme
Uniform provided (where required)
On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
On site health and fitness club
On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

SEASONAL RESPIRATORY VACCINATIONS

We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.

GETTING TO WORK

We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY

We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.

The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.

OTHER INFORMATION

If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Andrea Robson
Job title: Paediatric Matron & Trust Lead for Children
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01722336262

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