Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 05/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role involves delivering and developing specialist allergy services for children and young people across North West London, focusing on paediatric allergy care. The specialist will undertake holistic assessments, manage a caseload, and run nurse-led clinics in various settings. Key responsibilities include developing personalised management plans, supporting self-management education, and ensuring safe prescribing. The post holder will collaborate with families, GPs, and schools, contributing to service development through quality improvement and audit.
Essential criteria
- Registered Children's Nurse active on NMC register
- Student assessor or mentorship qualification
- Relevant BSc degree in nursing
- Professional development within paediatric Asthma
- Level 3 Safeguarding training
- Significant post registration experience working with children who have respiratory illnesses, allergies or asthma
- Sound knowledge of specialist paediatric asthma care, including pathophysiology, management protocols, and evidence-based practice
- Understanding of child protection procedures and safeguarding
- Ability to deliver asthma education and self-management support to children, young people, and families
- NHS England Tier 3 - Asthma in Children and Young People
- Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and lead clinical workload.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and listening skills
- Excellent problem solving and decision making skills
- Awareness of current NHS issues & appreciation of the issues surrounding governance & quality initiatives.
- Knowledge of NHS governance, quality initiatives, and ICS frameworks
Desirable criteria
- Foundations of Managing Asthma - Level 5 Diploma
- MSc in Advanced Practice or Respiratory Nursing
- Experience working in the community setting including schools, early years settings and patients homes
- Experience managing a specialist caseload, including complex, high-risk, or severe asthma
- Experience or willingness to participate in audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives
- Relevant post-registration accredited clinical course in advanced assessment
- Leadership or management qualification
- Ability to lead clinical workload and change initiatives, both personally and as a facilitator
- Experience or willingness to participate in audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives
- Significant post registration experience working with children who have respiratory illnesses, allergies or asthma
- Excellent relevant Paediatric clinical skills including assessment of lung function (PEFR, Spirometry, FeNO), inhaler technique, asthma plans
- Excellent managerial, leadership and organisational skills
- Able to motivate and develop a multi-professional team
- Experience of teaching, training, mentoring, and precepting colleagues
- Experience working in the community setting including schools, early years settings and patients homes
- Experience of handling clinical incidents, complaints, and safeguarding issues
- Experience managing a specialist caseload, including complex, high-risk, or severe asthma
- Experience in quality improvement or service development projects
- Trust Values
- Putting patients first
- Responsive to, and supportive of, patients and staff
- Open, welcoming and honest
- Unfailingly kind, treating everyone with respect, compassion and dignity
- Determined to develop our skills and continuously improve the quality of care
- Education Qualifications & Skills
- Registered Children's Nurse active on NMC register
- Student assessor or mentorship qualification
- Relevant BSc degree in nursing
- Professional development within paediatric Asthma
- Level 3 Safeguarding training
- Significant post registration experience working with children who have respiratory illnesses, allergies or asthma
- Sound knowledge of specialist paediatric asthma care, including pathophysiology, management protocols, and evidence-based practice
- Understanding of child protection procedures and safeguarding
- Ability to deliver asthma education and self-management support to children, young people, and families
- NHS England Tier 3 - Asthma in Children and Young People
- Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and lead clinical workload.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and listening skills
- Excellent problem solving and decision making skills
- Awareness of current NHS issues & appreciation of the issues surrounding governance & quality initiatives.
- Knowledge of NHS governance, quality initiatives, and ICS frameworks
- Foundations of Managing Asthma - Level 5 Diploma
- MSc in Advanced Practice or Respiratory Nursing
- Experience working in the community setting including schools, early years settings and patients homes
- Experience managing a specialist caseload, including complex, high-risk, or severe asthma
- Experience or willingness to participate in audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives
- Relevant post-registration accredited clinical course in advanced assessment
- Leadership or management qualification
- Ability to lead clinical workload and change initiatives, both personally and as a facilitator
- Experience or willingness to participate in audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives
- Significant post registration experience working with children who have respiratory illnesses, allergies or asthma
- Excellent relevant Paediatric clinical skills including assessment of lung function (PEFR, Spirometry, FeNO), inhaler technique, asthma plans
- Excellent managerial, leadership
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 05 October 2026
Job summary
West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH) are recruiting a Band 7 Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialists at West Middlesex University Hospital
This new posts will strengthen paediatric allergy care across WLCH by providing advanced clinical expertise, improving continuity, and supporting the delivery of safe, high-quality care for children and young people with allergy
Main duties of the job
The Paediatric Allergy Clinical Nurse Specialist is responsible for the delivery and development of specialist allergy services for children and young people across North West London. Working within the paediatric allergy multidisciplinary team, the role will support improved outcomes, reduced unwarranted variation, and high-quality, equitable allergy care.
The Band 7 CNS shall be expected to lead and manage his/her own patient cohort. In addition, work as part of the clinical nurse specialist team, cross covering patient cohorts where necessary and working alongside the MDT at all times.
The role involves working within a seamless specialist asthma / respiratory and allergy medical and nursing service that is aimed at continuously improving standards of patient care and facilitating multi-professional working. Th
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