Job summary
The Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a cornerstone of excellence in respiratory care. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking department that plays a vital role in the multidisciplinary management of patients with both acute and chronic respiratory conditions.
As a key member of the team, you will be instrumental in shaping and delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across both hospital and community settings. You will contribute to the development of innovative patient pathways within the triage service, offering specialist nursing advice to both patients and colleagues. Your role will be central to ensuring timely access to care, supporting the Trust in meeting national waiting time targets.
You will use your advanced clinical assessment and communication skills to guide patients through diagnostic pathways, ensuring that all relevant clinical information is available to the multidisciplinary team. Your expertise will be essential in interpreting complex investigatory results and determining the most appropriate next steps--whether that be discharge, referral to a GP, or escalation to specialist services.
If you are passionate about respiratory care and ready to take the next step in your nursing career, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
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Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Requirements and Qualifications
Essential
- 1st level Registered Nurse
- First level degree, or equivalent knowledge, in related subject
- Significant relevant post registration experience in specialist area
- Evidence of teaching experience, either formally or in informal settings
- Evidence of recent continuous personal and professional development
- Willingness to work towards Non medical prescribing course
Desirable
- Evidence of Masters Level learning or willing to work towards relevant Masters level studies
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and knowledge of specialist area
- Significant experience in acute care
- Knowledge and understanding of primary care referral processes
- Knowledge and understanding of specialist diagnostic and clinical pathways
- Evidence of MDT working
Desirable
- Experience of audit and research
- Evidence of sound organisation, leadership and management
Skills and Effort required
Essential
- Ability to work independently and within nursing and multidisciplinary
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Teaching/assessment and presentation skills
- Good organisational skills with attention to detail
- Patient centred approach
- Diplomatic, calm and objective
- Personally and professionally mature
- Recognition of own limitations
- Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Flexible to change in demands of service
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
- Willingness to travel and participate in professional development initiatives
- Computer literate
Desirable
- Evidence of implementing changes within practice
- Audit and research initiatives
- User involvement Sharing best practice
- Leadership and motivational skills
- History taking and physical assessment skills
- Advanced clinical decision-making skills involving the patient's informed choices
- Able to clearly dictate summary letters to the patients and GP
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to work
- Ability to travel between sites
Person Specification
Knowledge, Requirements and Qualifications
Essential
- 1st level Registered Nurse
- First level degree, or equivalent knowledge, in related subject
- Significant relevant post registration experience in specialist area
- Evidence of teaching experience, either formally or in informal settings
- Evidence of recent continuous personal and professional development
- Willingness to work towards Non medical prescribing course
Desirable
- Evidence of Masters Level learning or willing to work towards relevant Masters level studies
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and knowledge of specialist area
- Significant experience in acute care
- Knowledge and understanding of primary care referral processes
- Knowledge and understanding of specialist diagnostic and clinical pathways
- Evidence of MDT working
Desirable
- Experience of audit and research
- Evidence of sound organisation, leadership and management
Skills and Effort required
Essential
- Ability to work independently and within nursing and multidisciplinary
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Teaching/assessment and presentation skills
- Good organisational skills with attention to detail
- Patient centred approach
- Diplomatic, calm and objective
- Personally and professionally mature
- Recognition of own limitations
- Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Flexible to change in demands of service
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
- Willingness to travel and participate in professional development initiatives
- Computer literate
Desirable
- Evidence of implementing changes within practice
- Audit and research initiatives
- User involvement Sharing best practice
- Leadership and motivational skills
- History taking and physical assessment skills
- Advanced clinical decision-making skills involving the patient's informed choices
- Able to clearly dictate summary letters to the patients and GP
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to work
- Ability to travel between sites
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
