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Lead Respiratory CNS
Band 8a
- Respiratory
- Band 8a
- Permanent
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- 229-MED-7521333
- Hereford County Hospital
- Hereford
- £55,690 - £62,682 pa pro rata
- Yearly
- 19/10/2025 23:59
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Job overview
The post holder will lead a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists working to support the respiratory service at Wye Valley NHS Trust. The post holder will be responsible and accountable for the provision, management and continued development of a specialist nursing service for patients with a variety of respiratory conditions.
There will be extensive line management responsibilities for the CNSs working throughout the respiratory pathway. Nursing practice will be delivered at an advanced level and will include complex assessment of patients, counselling skills and advanced knowledge of the treatment of COPD, asthma, lung cancer, bronchiectasis, ILD, ventilation, immunotherapy for patients who have bee, wasp and pollen allergies – (including up-titration of their programmes) and other more general respiratory conditions. The post holder will lead, oversee and provide an expert advisory role for the countywide Home Oxygen Assessment and Review Service.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking applications from experienced respiratory nurses able to demonstrate and evidence proven leadership skills and service development. We are a rapidly expanding CNS team with lots of opportunity for you to make a difference to patients by ensuring the services provided are of the highest quality and evidenced based, to ultimately provide a quality of care we would want for ourselves, our families and friends. We welcome candidates with a sub specialty interest.
The post holder will lead a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists working to support the respiratory service at Wye Valley NHS Trust. The post holder will be responsible and accountable for the provision, management and continued development of a specialist nursing service for patients with a variety of respiratory conditions. There will be extensive line management responsibilities for the CNSs working throughout the respiratory pathway. Nursing practice will be delivered at an advanced level and will include complex assessment of patients, counselling skills and advanced knowledge of the treatment of COPD, asthma, lung cancer, bronchiectasis, ILD, ventilation, immunotherapy for patients who have bee, wasp and pollen allergies – (including up-titration of their programmes) and other more general respiratory conditions. The post holder will lead, oversee and provide an expert advisory role for the countywide Home Oxygen Assessment and Review Service.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Post registration qualification within speciality or equivalent
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification relevant to specialty
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Leadership ability
- Motivation of staff and team building
- Staff development
- Effective Time management
- Demonstrate an ability to problem solve highly complex situations
- Demonstrate analytical and judgement skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive proven post registration experience in relevant speciality
- Demonstrate the ability to deliver clinical skills in practice
- Provide evidence of involvement in service development
- Experience of implementing change
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Felicity Archer
- Job title
- Matron, Medical Specialties
- Email address
- felicity.archer@wvt.nhs.uk
- Telephone number
- 01432 355444
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