Senior Respiratory Clinical nurse specialist

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Main area Respiratory Grade NHS AfC:
Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday) Job
-AJ-R-8730

Site Univsersity Hospital Lewisham Town Lewisham Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum plus HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 30/09/2026 23:59

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Respiratory Care is an advanced practice nurse who provides expert clinical leadership, specialist assessment, and evidence-based interventions to patients with acute and chronic respiratory conditions. This role focuses on improving patient outcomes through advanced clinical practice, education, consultation, and service development. The CNS collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality respiratory care across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings.

Responsibilities include leading respiratory care initiatives, managing complex patient cases, developing clinical protocols, supporting staff education, and promoting best practices in areas such as asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis and oxygen therapy.

CNS within respiratory service will support the individuals referred with suspected lung cancer. Additionally, you'll be involved in the virtual surveillance of lung nodules, adhering to The British Thoracic Society guidelines. Your tasks will include requesting CT scans, responding to findings, coordinating with the diagnostic MDT, and keeping patients informed about their results while referring them to appropriate services when necessary.

• To work with the multidisciplinary team across an integrated pathway of care to deliver quality standards in line with NICE guidance.
• To work with the nurse specialist team to ensure that all patients have equitable access to investigations, treatment and follow-up care.
• To work with the nurse/midwifery specialist team to develop best practice in line with NICE guidance.
• To work with the team to develop guidelines to enhance optimal management of patients.
• To collect appropriate data against NICE guidance. To use audit as a tool to improve practice and evaluate services.
• To work with the team to implement recommendations from National audits and benchmarking.
• To identify objectives for own professional development which reflect local and national service needs, accessing advice, guidance and support as appropriate.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

To demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills and share this with others to positively influence patient care.

• To develop own specialist clinical knowledge and skills and participate in the development…