Asthma Nurse Specialist

Job summary

The Asthma Nurse will be working with the Royal Stoke Adult Asthma Team, liaising with GP's, practice nurses/nurse practitioners to support the screening, planning and monitoring of patients diagnosed with severe asthma. The successful post holder will be expected to take on a caseload of patients, deliver clinics both virtually and face to face, and to support and coach patients to become independent. The successful post holder will join an expanding team to deliver high quality care to patients with asthma both on an inpatient and outpatient basis; assisting to identify those patients who may be eligible for biological asthma treatments.

Main duties of the job

Taking on a caseload of patients to support from referral onwards: contributing to planning diagnostics work-ups to support asthma diagnosis and confirm eligibility for biologics.

Completing and sending necessary information to the severe asthma centre MDT to support patient initiation on biologics.

Involvement in biologic clinics administering biologic injections to patients, assessing the response, delivering questionnaires and requesting relevant investigations.

Involvement in adherence clinics helping patients to use medication appropriately, checking inhaler technique and improving patients understanding of medication.

Coaching patients to become independent.

Remote and face-to-face support for patients.

review inpatients following an acute exacerbation of asthma in line with guidelines.

The post holder will be able to assess, monitor and provide management plans to patients in nurse led clinics (virtual and face to face).

Assist with training patients to self -administer medication.

completion of clinical proformas for local and regional multi-disciplinary team meetings and attend MDTs.

Assist with entering patient data onto the national BTS Severe Asthma Registry.

About us

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.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Address

Royal Stoke University Hospital

University Hospital of North Midlands

Stoke on Trent

ST4 6QG

Employer's website

https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Address

Royal Stoke University Hospital

University Hospital of North Midlands

Stoke on Trent

ST4 6QG

Employer's website

https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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