This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated paediatric nurse with an interest in Asthma, Eczema and Allergies to work with Children and families in the community. We are looking to recruit an Atopy Specialist Nurse to manage nurse-led clinics across the community within Camden GP practices.
The Atopy nursing service is intended to provide more specialist skill in the community, supporting primary care and decreasing need for referral into secondary care for management. This will include nurse led clinics in GP surgeries and review of some patients before discharge from the ward. As well as delivering improvements in consistency and quality of care in the community it will decrease both outpatient activity, ED activity and primary care activity through better control and access to more specialist input in the community. The post holder will work collaboratively with all members of the Multidisciplinary team including GP’s, practice nurses, community children’s nurses and school nurses to deliver effective, high quality, safe patient centred care in the community and on the main Hospital site.
The Atopy Specialist Nurse will:
• Support children and families with a new diagnosis of asthma, providing advice and guidance to children and young people how to use the prescribed inhalers and emollients to self-care.
• Improve the confidence and self-care skills of children and young people and their parents/carers, for who control of asthma or eczema has previously been an issue.
• Identify those children/young people who are high intensity users of health services (via GPs/hospitals) including asthma and ensure they are actively case managed by appropriately skilled staff in partnership with primary care, specialists and children’s services.
• Allow cases that would have been referred to secondary care to be managed in the community.
• Improve rates of meeting the 48hour target for asthma review after ED attendance for exacerbation (NHSE asthma standards)
• Provide outreach in the communities to those children in whom there is a suspicion that social factors may be contributing to poor control and /or compliance.
• Improve the utilisation of pharmacies amongst children and young people for Medicines Use Reviews (MUR) and New Medicine Service (NMS) which can support children and young people with asthma and eczema.
• Consider all atopic conditions in one appointment to improve awareness and diagnosis and thus management of atopic co-morbidity.
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
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This advert closes on Monday 3 Feb 2025