Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist

This is a Fixed Term/Secondment vacancy until 28/03/2027.

If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

The vacancy sits within the Carmarthen GP cluster locality supporting people with chronic respiratory disease within their homes and community clinics. They will require specialist respiratory assessment skills and work autonomously but alongside partners from Primary, Community and Secondary Care to improve outcomes for those living with long term respiratory conditions.

Main responsibilities would include managing a clinical caseload of people living with chronic lung conditions. They’d be required to prioritise their workload, delegate work to other and supervise other staff.

Main duties of the job

The potholder will require specialist respiratory knowledge to support in the management of conditions such as COPD, ILD, bronchiectasis, home oxygen and home ventilation. We’d be expecting the postholder to have a high level of communication skills. Experience and skills in supporting those coming to the later stages of their life would be advantageous as would previous community working.

Being able to commute across a wide geographical area is essential.

They will be supported by their community respiratory colleagues and the wider respiratory team including general respiratory, bronchiectasis and respiratory failure virtual MDTs. They will have the opportunity to support Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programmes, an active respiratory research programme as well as service development and improvement. They would need to supervise, support and work alongside a Health Care Support Worker.

Interviews will be held on 27/05/2026.

About us

Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties.

We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in‑hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services.

We work in partnership with the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.

Our services are provided in:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth; Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen; Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli; and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest
• Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire
• Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings
• 47 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices); dental practices (including four orthodontic); 99 community pharmacies; 43 general ophthalmic practices; and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers
• Numerous mental health and learning disabilities services

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.

The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

The ability to communicate in Welsh isdesirablefor this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirementsspecified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Registered Nurse
• NMC registration
• Master's level qualification or equivalent experience
• Qualifications in asthma and COPD
• Teaching qualification
• Qualification in Non‑Medical Prescribing or willing to undertake.
• Leadership and management accredited course
• Evidence of content of key current national or international guidelines.
• Other respiratory diploma or degree level qualifications ARTP, or similar accredited, Practical and Interpretation Spirometry certificate

Experience

• Evidence of working in an area with COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis, Motor neurone disease patients.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Experience of monitoring and evaluating services.
• Experience of teaching other disciplines.
• Experience of presenting to a range of audiences.
• Evidence of the use of asthma action plans.
• Experience of ordering and interpreting investigations/tests
• Managing patients needing acute CPAP
• Managing patients using acute and home based non invasive ventilation
• Experience of leading a clinical team.
• Involvement in change management.
• Evidence of assisting in the planning and developing of services.
• Published work.
• Experience of undertaking audits, writing reports and presenting audit outcomes to other health professionals

Language abilities

• Welsh Speaker (Level 1)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Baring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£50,129 to £57,365 a yearper annum pro rata

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