Band 7 Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist – (TACT)

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (Band 7) to lead and develop our Tobacco Addiction Cure Team (TACT) service. It is a 12‑month fixed‑term post that requires an interest in behaviour change and post‑registration training in smoking cessation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the management and development of the TACT service across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Deliver nurse‑led clinics and support complex quit attempts.
• Work with staff clinics and partner with the lead consultant to coordinate smoking‑cessation services across the Trust.
• Ensure continuity of care for patients discharged from inpatient services, working with partners across pathways.
• Use technology, including IT, for virtual support and data management.
• Develop and drive innovation, research, audit and education programmes within the service.
• Provide multidisciplinary team leadership, ensuring patient‑centred, high‑quality care.
• Operate autonomously while collaborating with the wider team.

Essential Qualifications

• Registered Adult Nurse with valid NMC registration.
• Post‑registration CPD or post‑registration qualification in the relevant area of speciality.
• Evidence of commitment to advanced clinical and non‑clinical continuing professional development, including management/leadership competencies and a detailed personal development portfolio.
• Relevant, accredited, postgraduate education or courses in smoking cessation.
• Revalidation evidence as required by the NMC.
• Significant post‑registration experience delivering care in clinics within an acute NHS organisation, including treatment of acute and chronic patients.
• Experience working in respiratory clinics.
• Experience supporting patients with behaviour change and smoking cessation.
• Experience of staff management, including supervision and performance management.
• Evidence of achievements and career development in the current post, and ongoing professional development.
• Expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to the speciality.
• Experience in developing educational programmes, teaching and supervising others in a clinical setting.
• Working in a multi‑disciplinary and cross‑agency environment.
• Experience of patient service‑user advocacy.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care and give advice and information to patients, relatives and care staff.
• Awareness of current NHS policy context and principles of safeguarding, corporate and clinical governance.
• Good understanding of IT systems and their application to clinical practice.

Desirable Qualifications

• Training to MSc level.
• Progressing towards an advanced health assessment module (where applicable).
• Non‑Medical Prescriber or willingness to undertake (where applicable).
• Membership of relevant special interest groups (e.g. ARNs, BTS).
• Experience in service development.
• Awareness of current research related to the speciality.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in service development.
• Awareness of current research related to the speciality.

Additional Requirements

• Disclosure and Barring Service check as required under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.
• Current UK professional registration.

Contract and Working Pattern

• Fixed‑term contract, 12 months.
• Hours: 18.75 per week (part‑time, flexible).
• Location: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH.

Salary and Benefits

£49,387.00 to £56,515.00 yearly (Agenda for Change, Band 7).

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