Staff Nurse - Specialist Respiratory Weaning and Rehab

The Lane Fox Respiratory Unit is looking for YOU!

If you are looking for a challenge and have an interest in specialist respiratory medicine, then we are the place for you.

We can offer you a personalised induction programme with supervision and support from our dedicated practice development team and one to one support from the senior nursing team. You will have the opportunity to participate in our exciting “Introduction to Critical Care Nursing” course, which offers practical and academic support to help you to advance your knowledge and skills in caring for highly dependent complex patients with respiratory illness.

“It doesn’t matter how challenging the day is, if you got the team around you, you feel like you can do anything!”

“People ask me why I have been here for so long and I say to them I love my job, I love the patients and there is nowhere in the world I would go and be satisfied that would compare to how we work in Lane Fox”

The Lane Fox Respiratory Unit is the largest weaning and home mechanical ventilation centre in the UK. We provide management and long term follow up for patients with chronic respiratory disease such as COPD and neuro‑muscular diseases. The Lane Fox Respiratory Unit also offers specialist nurse led clinics and a home ventilation service for assessing and advising patients with chronic respiratory illness.

Closing date: 15th March 2026 at Midnight

Proposed Interview date: 26th March 2026

• Tracheostomy management and mechanical ventilation
• Weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation
• Acute and chronic non-invasive ventilation
• High Flow oxygen therapy

If you share our vision to help patients with respiratory failure to live independently this is the perfect job for you. We welcome you to contact us to find out more about the role and would be happy to show you around the unit and answer any questions you may have.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world‑class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name:
David Metherell

Job title:

Charge Nurse
Email address:

Camille Rabajante

Ward Sister