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Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Nurse Specialist (XR07)

The closing date is 21 August 2025

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Job summary

Expected Shortlisting Date

19/08/2025

Planned Interview Date

09/09/2025

Are you an experienced, compassionate, and motivated nurse with a special interest in respiratory care and long-term conditions? We are seeking a Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Specialist Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team to provide expert care and support for patients living with cystic fibrosis.

This is a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of CF care, helping to deliver high-quality, patient-centred services across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings.

The successful candidate will need to have:

Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration.

Experience in respiratory care, long-term conditions, or specialist nursing (CF experience preferred but not essential).

Excellent communication, organisational, and teamwork skills.

Proven leadership skills and ability to work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team.

A passion for delivering holistic, person-centred care and making a difference in the lives of people with complex, lifelong conditions.

Main duties of the job

As an Adult CF Specialist Nurse, you will play a key role in the care pathway of patients aged 18 and over, providing support across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings. Your responsibilities will include:

Acting as a clinical expert and key contact for adults with CF and their families.

Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for patients with complex needs.

Supporting patients in managing their condition long-term, including medication adherence, nutrition, mental health, and infection prevention.

Coordinating care as part of a well-established CF multidisciplinary team (MDT), including physiotherapists, dietitians, psychologists, pharmacists, and consultants.

Delivering patient education and promoting self-management and health literacy.

Facilitating smooth transition from paediatric to adult services where applicable.

Contributing to ongoing service development, audits, and quality improvement initiatives.

About us

Come and join our team in Leeds and become part of The Leeds Way sharing our vision and values. Our Trust is recognised for our staff engagement, great care and rated GOOD by the Care Quality Commission.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute health providers in the UK and based in one of the fastest growing and vibrant cities in the north.

At Cardio-Respiratory CSU, we aim to be a fair and supportive CSU with positive, caring teams who are champions of the Leeds Way values. Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Date posted

31 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9298-CRS-293

Job locations

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Job description

Job responsibilities

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Leadership

Provide leadership to the clinical team working with Matron, develop new roles/ways of working

Provide a visible clinical lead and role model to the nursing and wider team by delivering high quality compassionate care.

Support staff to provide efficient, effective, safe and quality care to patients as an expert practitioner.

Deliver a positive patient experience.

Support in the delivery of an effective, evidence based, safe, quality service within budgetary envelope.

Responsible for the day to day supervision of junior clinical staff and students within the specialist team.

Motivate staff in the delivery of quality patient care.

Has responsibility for the line management of the specialist nursing team including recruitment, performance management and workforce planning.

Deliver an effective quality service with budgetary constraints, monitors the delegated budget for the specialist nursing teamWork with the Matron to work towards the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals objectives and service improvement.

Supervise clinical delivery of care competencies.

Anticipate problems and take preventative or mitigating actions, or have contingency plans available.

Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events.

Ensures that workload and performance monitoring data for the team is collected, collated and utilised to ensure the effective and efficient working of the team. Reviews this information with Matron on a regular basis.

Work with the Matron in the development of specific elements of nursing practice, reflecting the CSU and Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals business plans.

Engage users and carers views on service delivery and development.

Propose, develop and implement policy, protocols and practice guidelines specific to the clinical specialty.

Exercises a personal duty of care in relation to equipment, resource and stock control utilising equipment and supplies appropriately.

Clinical

Provide high quality care as an expert practitioner and act as a role model and resource for advice, support and guidance.

Provides specialised advice contributing to the diagnosis and care of patients.

Responsibility for ensuring setting, monitoring and seeking to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care.

Undertake clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care and treatments using specialist clinical knowledge and clinical skills.

Make clinical assessments and treatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols.

Organises own clinical workload.

Undertake duties on wards or departments as and when required by service demands or patient need.

Supervise clinical staff to promote the delivery of excellent clinical standards.

Receives supervision of clinical care and outcomes from nurse specialist team leader.

Act in accordance with the relevant professional code i.e. NMC.

Fulfil the requirements as directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration.

Ensure and promote the maintenance of a safe, clean and secure working environment.

Act in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times. Is familiar with and adheres to, the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) safeguarding policies.

Raise concerns with regards to risk, danger, malpractice or wrong doing by following the LTHT Whistleblowing policy and supporting processes.

Ensure that documentation standards are maintained in accordance with NMC and LTHT guidelines, whether written or computerised.

Promote and maintain positive working relationships between all staff, internal and external to the Trust, involved in the care of patients.

Communication

Maintains accurate clinical and other records using the LTHTs documentation.

Support patients and their families, communicating sensitive condition related information, ensuring they receive required information to enable them to participate in their care delivery.

Deliver complex information to patients and staff.

Liaise with external health providers and other agencies (as appropriate) to ensure seamless provision of care delivery.

Quality Improvement & Research

Improve the quality and safety of our services by being proactive in promoting and supporting the Leeds Improvement Method.

Participate in quality improvement programmes as required.

Keep up to date with and communicate service developments, advances and research.

Through the use of audit, local research, metrics and feedback continually seek to identify practice that needs improvement. Implement and evaluate any resultant improvement plan.

Actively promote patient involvement and feedback within service improvements to promote a positive patient experience

Maintain and sustain the momentum of improvements until they are firmly embedded into the values and culture of the clinical area.

Undertake audit programmes specific to client group, treatments and developments.

Help to set, monitor and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including those standards defined in local and national guidance.

Participate in clinical trials as appropriate.

Work closely with Research and Innovation to promote research, disseminate outcomes and findings to support evidence based practice.

Education and Training

Participate in own and others appraisals and in the development of own personal development plan and performance review.

Provides specialist training and education at post-graduate level within the University settings as agreed with Matron.

Undertake role specific training and competencies.

Provide education and training to patients and their carers.

Keep up to date with developments, advances within the specialty.

Collaborate with other members of the team in clinical areas and departments to ensure that the provision of education and training is clear and robust.

Mentorship and supervision of junior staff.

Participate in specialist national, regional and local conferences as agreed with Matron.Support staff to deliver evidence based practice and research activities to further enhance patient care.

Undertake mandatory and priority training within the required time scales

This does not provide an exhaustive list of roles and responsibilities, and these may be subject to change with professional and service developments