Clinical Nurse Specialist – Paediatric Respiratory

Clinical Nurse Specialist – Paediatric Respiratory

Band 7

Main area Paediatrics Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours 30 hours per week (Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered) Job ref 180-E-267197-RE

Employer Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E Town Cambridge Salary £49,387 – £56,515 p.a pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/07/2026 23:59

Job overview

Are you an experienced children’s nurse with a passion for improving outcomes for children and young people with asthma? We are seeking an enthusiastic, innovative, and highly motivated Paediatric Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist to lead and develop high-quality asthma care across both local and regional services.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic multidisciplinary respiratory team, providing expert clinical leadership and specialist nursing care for children and young people with asthma. You will play a pivotal role in delivering evidence-based care, reducing health inequalities, improving patient outcomes, and supporting the development of integrated asthma services across primary, secondary, and tertiary care.

As the Paediatric Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will: Provide expert assessment, management, and follow-up for children and young people with asthma across inpatient and outpatient settings; Deliver education to children, young people, families, schools, and healthcare professionals; work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, primary care, community services, schools, and regional respiratory networks to ensure seamless, patient-centred care; Support service development through audit, research, innovation, and evidence-based practice.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder is a recognised expert in the specialty, responsible for assessing, developing and implementing specialist nursing care programmes and undertaking specialist nursing procedures
• Responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff. This includes the provision of specialist education and training for other staff and students
• Responsible for implementing a clearly defined integrated approach to patient care encompassing new treatments and evidence based care
• Required to undertake research and lead clinical audits in own specialist area
• You will also be a registered Children’s Nurse with significant post-registration experience in respiratory nursing care, advanced knowledge of asthma management and current national guidelines, experience in multidisciplinary working, and commitment to your own professional development and delivering compassionate, family centred care

Working for our organisation

Come Nurse with us…

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

This vacancy is for Registered Nurses with full NMC registration. If you are an internationally trained nurse that has not passed their OSCE (objective structured clinical examination), you will not be considered for this role and will be automatically rejected, so please do not apply.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 29th Jul 2026Interviews are due to be held on 10th Aug 2026

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on‑site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose‑created colleague‑only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work‑life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part‑time working, job‑share, term‑time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RSCN/ RN Child
• First Degree (or equivalent level) in nursing or health‑related subject
• High Dependency/ PICU Course
• Teaching and Assessing qualification
• Evidence of on‑going CPD
• Post‑graduate Diploma/ Degree/Masters
• Counselling qualification
• Non‑medical prescriber
• Advanced communication skills

Experience

• Working with acute and chronically ill children and young people
• PICU/ NICU experience
• Evidence of having worked collaboratively in a multi‑disciplinary team
• Demonstrate a commitment to teaching colleagues / students and involvement in mentorship
• Community experience
• Experience in caring for children with ophthalmologic conditions, and their families
• Evidence of publications in nursing journals
• NHS Experience

Qualifications

• Demonstrate an understanding of the implications of the Children Act, National Service Framework, Every Child Matters, Working together to Safeguard Children, NHS Plan
• Liberating the Talents
• Experience in developing care pathways and patient information

Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Skills of diplomacy and negotiation
• Well‑developed organisational and planning ability, able to prioritise and delegate
• Maintain a flexible attitude to change
• Demonstrate an ability to work as part of a team and build good relationships
• Ability to manage performance of staff, change management and conflict
• Experience of managing a caseload
• Experience of managing conflict

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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