Specialist Clinical Practitioner

2 weeks ago

North Shields, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The successful applicant will work primarily within the 2 week wait skin cancer pathway in Plastic Surgery.

The practitioner role is to provide independent advanced clinical assessment and management of patients from referral to discharge, diagnosis and beyond. This role involves working independently of medical staff or with remote assistance.

This post will include triage of skin referrals from General Practitioners (GPs), communication directly with GPs, outpatients' clinics for new referrals, diagnosis clinics and aftercare or follow up, treatment room and minor surgical sessions.

This post holder will also support the team of clinical nurse specialists, assist with ward rounds and complex wound support.

The practitioner will provide senior clinical and non-clinical leadership to the team.
- Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.
- Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.
- Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Engage with external agencies to provide a high-quality service for patients and their carers.
- Contribute to the development of high-quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across Organisational boundaries.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.

Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.

Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Engage with external agencies to provide a high-quality service for patients and their carers.

Contribute to the development of high-quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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