Respiratory Nurse

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Ambrose Avenue Group Practice in Colchester is a friendly and welcoming GP practice and are currently seeking a respiratory nurse to join our team. Working across our two sites, Ambrose Avenue and Tollgate, this is a full‑time role, requiring 37.5 hours per week over five days. The successful applicant must have experience with asthma and COPD.

• Undertake health assessments, administer medication and treatments, and perform diagnostic tests.
• Provide and evaluate a range of health interventions to ensure that patients' health and social care needs are met.
• Promote general health and well‑being and create individual, person‑centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long‑term condition.
• Run asthma and COPD clinics and reviews.
• Manage and treat long‑term conditions, in line with national and local policies and practice needs.
• Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, according to evidence‑based practice and national practice protocols; work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately, including initiating effective emergency care in complex, urgent or emergency situations.

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a friendly, long‑established, award‑winning, progressive GP practice. We are based over two surgery sites within 10 minutes of each other, serving the population of Stanway and Pretty gate in Colchester, Essex. We are a training practice and offer services to a population of over 14,500 patients. The clinical team consists of eight GPs, a GP trainee, four advanced nurse practitioners, three nurses, two healthcare assistants, and various allied health professionals, including a GP assistant, health and wellbeing coach, clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technicians, care coordinator, social prescriber and care advisor.

We hold monthly meetings and training sessions and have a diverse team of clinicians, including first‑contact physio, pharmacists, ANP/NP, care coordinator, social prescriber, health coach, GP assistant and an award‑winning team of mental health workers.

• A permanent employment contract.
• Membership in the NHS pension scheme.
• Support for personal and professional development.
• Excellent training and development opportunities.
• Enjoy an impressive total of 6 weeks annual leave, along with eight bank holidays (pro‑rata), increasing with continuous years of service in the NHS.
• Bike rack available.

Date posted: 07 January 2026

Salary:
Depending on experience

Contract:

Permanent

Working pattern:
Full‑time

Reference number: 29145-2

Job locations: 76 Ambrose Avenue, Colchester, Essex, CO3 4LN

• Knowledge and experience supporting long‑term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Competence to undertake asthma and COPD, holding relevant certificates.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.