Paediatric CNS for Home Ventilation, NIV/LTV
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join the Long-Term Ventilation (LTV) and Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) team at Barts Health NHS Trust. The role involves providing expert support for children and young people with home mechanical ventilation needs, including those with tracheostomies and nasal pharyngeal airways. The CNS will lead in establishing effective transitional and home care packages, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and offering education and training to families and staff. The position requires leadership in managing a respiratory patient cohort and working autonomously while supporting the wider team.
Key responsibilities
- Take a significant leadership role in supporting the highest level of quality expert practice and support for children and young people with home mechanical ventilation (HMV) needs and their families.
- Look after children with Tracheostomies and Nasal Pharyngeal Airways as part of the LTV caseload.
- Liaise, participate, and interact with complex multidisciplinary and multiagency teams to establish effective transitional and home care packages.
- Work collaboratively and autonomously, offering authoritative, supplementary, and complementary practical support to children and families within the caseload.
- Provide a significant level of education, training, and leadership to increase the capacity and capability of the service and individual families.
- Lead and manage your own respiratory patient cohort and work effectively alongside the MDT and other LTV CNS's.
Essential criteria
- Registered Paediatric Nurse.
- Intravenous accreditation.
- Mentorship course or equivalent teaching qualification
- Specialist Clinical Course in Respiratory
- Level 3 safeguarding training
Desirable criteria
- Working towards relevant degree or masters
- Experience of caseload management
- Experience of Home oxygen patients.
- Experience with Home mechanical Ventilated and non-invasive ventilated patients.
- Experienced with managing patients with Sleep Disordered breathing and those requiring home mechanical chronic ventilator management.
- Experience of tracheostomy and nasal prong patients
- Post registration experience including recent experience within the appropriate specialty.
- Knowledge and understanding of the safeguarding process
- Experience of working with students and facilitating their learning needs.
- Experience of change management.
- Research and audit
- Evidence of participation in organized teaching and study days representing the trust and networking.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to work within the nursing team to ensure good clinical/non-clinical outcomes.
- The ability to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally.
- Demonstrates the ability to work independently as well as work with a wider MDT/multi-agency team in a complex and changing environment
- Ability to communicate effectively at all level across Directorate and other organisations.
- Able to prioritize and meet deadlines.
- Able to use own initiative.
- Teaching and training and Leadership skills
- Practice advanced clinical skills BLS, APLS/EPLS/ PILS
- Able to teach and assess parents in BLS/Trachy BLS
- Registered Paediatric Nurse.
- Intravenous accreditation.
- Mentorship course or equivalent teaching qualification
- Specialist Clinical Course in Respiratory
- Level 3 safeguarding training
- Working towards relevant degree or masters
- Experience of caseload management
- Experience of Home oxygen patients.
- Experience with Home mechanical Ventilated and non-invasive ventilated patients.
- Experienced with managing patients with Sleep Disordered breathing and those requiring home mechanical chronic ventilator management.
- Experience of tracheostomy and nasal prong patients
- Post registration experience including recent experience within the appropriate specialty.
- Knowledge and understanding of the safeguarding process
- Experience of working with students and facilitating their learning needs.
- Experience of change management.
- Research and audit
- Evidence of participation in organized teaching and study days representing the trust and networking.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to work within the nursing team to ensure good clinical/non-clinical outcomes.
- The ability to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally.
- Demonstrates the ability to work independently as well as work with a wider MDT/multi-agency team in a complex and changing environment
- Ability to communicate effectively at all level across Directorate and other organisations.
- Able to prioritize and meet deadlines.
- Able to use own initiative.
- Teaching and training and Leadership skills
- Practice advanced clinical skills BLS, APLS/EPLS/ PILS
- Able to teach and assess parents in BLS/Trachy BLS
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Barts Health NHS Trust
Paediatric CNS for Home Ventilation, NIV/LTV
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
An opportunity has arisen in our LT/NIV team for a CNS Band 7 to join our expanding team working across the Children's Hospital including general/respiratory wards, NICU and PICU.
The post holder will take a significant leadership role in supporting the highest level of quality expert practice and support for children and young people with home mechanical ventilation (HMV) needs and their families. HMV includes those on Long-Term Ventilation and Non-Invasive Ventilation. This post holder will also be looking after children with Tracheostomies and Nasal Pharyngeal Airways as part of the LTV caseload. This will involve full liaison, participation, and interaction with the complex multidisciplinary and multiagency teams responsible for the delivery of both care and resources to establish effective transitional and home care packages.
They will work both collaboratively and autonomously, offering authoritative, supplementary, and complementary practical support to the children and families within the caseload. The post will encompass a significant level of education, training, and leadership responsibilities to significantly increase both the capacity and capability of the service and individual families to respond to changing needs and provide ongoing
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