Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Children’s and Young People’s Respiratory services. We are looking for a dynamic enthusiastic, skilled and confident children’s nurse to join our Children and Young People Multi-Disciplinary Respiratory Team as a Band 7 Children’s Respiratory Nurse working across Royal Stoke & County Hospitals and Community Diagnostic Centre sites within community settings.

You need to be an enthusiastic, dynamic, proactive, innovative, and highly motivated nurse. You must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to work with the multidisciplinary teams in secondary, tertiary and primary care services.

All applicants will be expected to meet the essential criteria and possess the relevant post registration experience as outlined in the person specification. A development programme will be available to support training and service provision needs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with clinicians and nursing staff and will provide a highly developed and effective outpatient and inpatient service for children with respiratory diseases. The post holder will demonstrate good communication, analytical and planning expertise. The post holder will be required to work autonomously, effectively and efficiently with children, parents/carers, and a variety of multidisciplinary teams including those in primary, secondary, tertiary and voluntary care settings.  The post holder will be required to travel between multiple sites. The post holder will have highly developed leadership skills and specialist clinical knowledge and expertise in the care and management of children with respiratory disorders. The post holder will lead the development and delivery of the Community Diagnostic Centre pathways, nurse led clinical aspects of the service. The post holder will develop and deliver innovative and evidence-based practice through professional leadership, supporting the clinical team to develop the specialist area of respiratory care. The post holder will contribute to the management of a quality and cost-effective service. The post holder will have a role in paediatric respiratory education, research and audit programmes that the Paediatric Respiratory department is involved in. 

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.