Respiratory Lead Nurse, Band 7

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Respiratory Lead Nurse to join our Nursing and Care Directorate. This role will require the successful candidate to play a pivotal role in building the respiratory expertise within the clinical team, focusing on upskilling other clinical leads and staff at all levels to ensure the delivery of high-quality care to children and young people with complex respiratory needs.

As well as being the clinical nurse expert overseeing respiratory assessment and care plans for the CYP, the post-holder will also empower the wider clinical workforce, ensuring they are fully equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to provide effective respiratory support.

This role will lead the development of education, training, and resources to establish sustainable, expert respiratory care practices across the team.

This role reports directly to the Head of Care and works closely with the wider clinical leadership team to ensure the Children's Trust remains a leader in respiratory care for children with long-term ventilation and tracheostomy needs.

Role Requirements

• Lead on the upskilling and education of clinical leads and nursing and care teams across the service to build expertise in respiratory care.
• Oversight of respiratory assessment and care planning for CYP with complex respiratory needs across residential care and rehabilitation.
• Decision making responsibility in relation to complex respiratory care (e.g. changing ventilator settings, trialling one-way valves) working in a team around the child.
• Collaborate with the team around the child within rehabilitation, residential/school settings with particular focus on working in partnership with the respiratory physiotherapist.
• Collaborate with the Clinical Education Lead to develop and implement structured training programs for nursing staff, ensuring the workforce can confidently manage complex respiratory needs.
• Develop a system of continuous clinical support and knowledge sharing, ensuring that all staff are equipped to deliver evidence-based, high-quality respiratory care.
• Support staff who cover the Clinical Site Manager rota (CSMs) and other team leaders in the development of their respiratory care competencies, ensuring they can deliver care at the highest standard without relying on a single expert.

For more information, a copy of the candidate briefing pack and application form please click here .

Terms and Conditions

PLEASE NOTE: The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and further explored during the interview process.

Strictly no agencies, please.

As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interviews. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for an interview on this occasion.

About Us

The Children's Trust is the UK's leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.

Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher's pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Rehabilitation of Offenders

Many roles at The Children's Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected. The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children's Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK's diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark - our broad EDI group. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.

Online Searches

In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate's name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.