Clinical Nurse Specialist

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Paediatric Nurse to join our Neurosciences service for 1 year as a Clinical Nurse Specialist . Working predominantly across the Neuroinflammation Service and Neuromuscular services at the Evelina London Children's Hospital .

The Evelina London Children's neuroinflammation services provide a comprehensive diagnostic and management service for children affected by disorders such as encephalitis and Multiple Sclerosis.

Closing date: 08/05/2024

Interview date: 23/05/2024

These services are embedded in and supported by the wider neuroscience service. The majority of children are seen as outpatients or on the day-case unit but for those who require it, there are comprehensive inpatient, including intensive care facilities.

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic individual with excellent communication skills to join our friendly team.

Main duties of the job

Evelina London provides care for children and young people from across south London and south east England and provides a comprehensive range of hospital services, caring for patients from before birth, through childhood and on to adult services.

As a clinical nurse specialist you will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team working together to deliver this specialist service. You will be responsible for developing and working within evidence-based specialist pathways of care, guidelines, protocols and patient group directives to support patients and their families to improve care delivery.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical and Patient Care

  • Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilstworking as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering specialisedindividualised and personalised direct patient care
  • Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
  • Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medicationincluding transfusion of blood and blood products
  • Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in thespeciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same.
  • Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards withinthe NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
  • Ensure that patients receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
  • Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
  • To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring theplanning delivery and evaluation of individualised specialist care.
  • Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.
  • Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced specialist clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursingprocedures to area.
  • To be responsible, for maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and other staff within the clinical environment.
  • Ensure that sensitive patient records are stored appropriately.Ensures the cultural and spiritual needs of patients are recognised and accommodated within resources available.
  • Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisionsrelating to their treatment and management.
  • Participate in case conferences in relation to the management of patients, ensuring the coordination of ongoing care.
  • Ensure staff take precautions to minimise the risk of cross infection inrelation to the safe disposal of body fluids (including blood).
  • A key member of the multidisciplinary team in supporting patients and their carers during the delivery of bad news such as caring for the terminally ill patients and the event of death.
  • Assess educational and information needs for patients and families, and devise plans to ensure need are met.
  • To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment and management.
  • Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of the specialist service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards
  • Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through to assessment,diagnosis, treatment and review.

*For more detailed responsibilities please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register
  • Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and or courses
  • Mentorship course

Desirable


  • Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality)
  • Evidence of leadership development

Skills

Essential


  • Experience of teaching/ assessing/ supervising others in a clinical setting.
  • Demonstrates effective written communication in application form
  • Ability to clinically lead & influence staff

Desirable


  • Experience of nursing research /audit
  • Experience of using of variety of IT applications to undertake clinic/meetings and patient care

Experience

Essential


  • Relevant clinical experience in Neurology
  • Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
  • Experience of audit, research & evidence based care

Desirable


  • Experience of change management or service improvement
  • Previous experience as CNS or other senior role
  • Experience in staff management including undertaking appraisal

Values & behaviours

Essential


  • Written examples of upholding trust values
  • Written evidence of respecting others and role modelling good practice

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Evelina London Children's Hospital

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

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