Job summary
Employer heading
Children's Community Asthma and Allergy Nurse
Band 6
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
EPUT
COMMUNITY ASTHMA NURSE SPECIALISTS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
BAND 6
Part time 22.5 Hours
We are delighted to announce exciting new opportunities to join the Community Asthma Service for Children and Young People within Mid and South Essex Community Collaborative (MSECC)
The Mid and South Essex Community Collaborative (MSECC) brings together the three main providers for community services: Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT), North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) and Provide Community Interest Company CIC in a Community Health Services Provider Collaborative.
In order to drive this transformation we now require asthma nurses to provide expert advice and education to support diagnosis and management of children and young people with Asthma within the community setting. These posts will be predominantly based within the EPUT locality during induction and preceptorship, whilst simultaneously developing relationships with both Primary and Secondary health care professionals in either Mid Essex (Provide) or Basildon, Brentwood, and Thurrock (NELFT) in preparation for transformation of the Asthma Service across the MSECC.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for highly motivated, innovative, and flexible children’s trained nurses to join our community asthma service. The successful candidates will be an RSCN or RN Child with substantial specialist knowledge and experience of supporting children and young people with asthma. The applicants must be well organised and able to work autonomously on their own initiative and be excellent communicators embracing family partnership care.
The role includes extensive collaborative working with Health Visitors, School Nurses, GPs, Primary Care Networks, Paediatric Consultants and Asthma Nurse Specialists to ensure the delivery of relevant, co-ordinated and high-quality care solutions for children and families with asthma within the community setting.
In return we will reward you with an attractive salary and benefits package which includes excellent pension provision and a full induction and orientation period with ongoing clinical supervision included. Our training package offers a wide range of relevant training and development opportunities to enable you to advance your skills and career within a progressive framework.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
• Season Ticket Loans • NHS discounts for staff • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work • Day One Flexible Employer Join our Staff bank What is Staff Bank? Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank. |
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist education and training to improve the management of care for children and young people with Asthma by engaging with a number of agencies to promote integration within primary and secondary care and educational establishments.
Person specification
essential
Essential criteria
- extensive paediatric experience
- car driver
Desirable criteria
- V300
- asthma knowledge and experience
- advanced communication skills
essential
Essential criteria
- additional paediatric continued professional development
essential
Essential criteria
- interpersonal skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- nicola hendy
- Job title
- modern matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01702 372076
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