Main area Dermatology Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed term or secondment will be considered) Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week Job ref 302-25-6929075SS
Site Prosser White Centre, Leigh Infirmary Town Leigh Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum, Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 21/02/2025 23:59
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Job overview
To practice as a Specialist Nurse in Dermatology, providing care to patients in an autonomous manner in nurse led clinics, assessing, diagnosing and making safe clinical judgements. To act as a resource to support the GM biologic gainshare project.
Main duties of the job
* To be responsible for co-ordinating the provision of continuous clinical care within allocated resources, providing a quality service and high clinical standards for all patients in your area.
* To provide clinical leadership in Dermatology.
* Support the Clinical Manager and Service Manager in service performance management.
* To provide a specialised clinical and educational service to improve the management of patients with chronic skin conditions and improve their quality of life.
* To be clinically responsible for the assessment and diagnosis of skin conditions in patients referred to the Dermatology Service.
* To provide expert clinical care in the review, planning, implementation and evaluation of treatment and care for patients referred with skin conditions to the Dermatology Service.
* To provide appropriate treatment, specialist knowledge and education to patients and their carers to enable and promote self-care.
* To act as a specialist resource to other health professionals by providing both support with individual patients and up to date, evidence-based knowledge via one to one and group education sessions.
* To contribute to the continued evaluation and development of the Dermatology Service in line with WWL NHS Teaching Foundation Trust, National and professional policy and guidelines.
Working for our organisation
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Treating patients referred to Dermatology within local and nationally agreed protocols and guidelines.
* Being professionally accountable for all professional and personal actions, in accordance with the framework or scope of professional practice.
* Reviewing patient’s prescribed medication regimes to ensure that they receive appropriate pharmacotherapy in safe and effective doses.
* Educating patients with regards to:
o Their chronic skin condition.
o Prevention of and response to flares in their chronic skin condition.
o How to correctly use the treatment prescribed.
o Expected outcomes.
o Written care plans.
o Available supportive written and electronic information.
* Maintaining an up to date, evidence based personal knowledge and competence through regular continued professional development (CPD), annual personal development review (PDR) and clinical supervision.
* Being able to recognise own personal clinical and professional limitations, seeking clinical support and appropriate training where necessary and referring or signposting patients to an appropriate specialist or service.
* Utilising a holistic approach to each individual patient and their family’s physical and psychological care whilst promoting good health and general well-being.
* Ensuring that wherever nurse prescribing is undertaken the nurse prescribing policy, personal prescribing list (P List), regional and local medicine management guidelines are adhered to.
* At all times acting within the guidelines laid down by the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
Person specification
Knowledge
* Knowledge of eczema and psoriasis and the complications associated with these conditions – physically and psychologically.
* Knowledge of other chronic skin diseases and their management.
* Knowledge of community, support groups, voluntary agencies and social care agencies.
Skills
* Excellent and effective communication skills.
* Evidence of teaching skills and/or confidence to educate health professionals.
* Basic keyboard skills.
* Knowledge of databases.
* Evidence of contribution to the development of programmes of care, protocols and clinical audit.
* Experience in minor ops.
Qualifications
* Evidence of post basic training in appropriate areas.
Experience
* Demonstrable experience within Dermatology or experience of working with and treating people with skin problems.
* Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in Dermatology.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Evidence of working with and undertaking clinical assessment of chronic skin condition.
* Experience running own specialist service or clinic for patients with chronic skin conditions.
Additional
* Passion, Tenacity and ability to problem solve.
* Awareness of health and health promotion in relationship to chronic skin disease and its impact on individuals and the economy.
* Able to work flexibly according to service needs.
* Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation.
Our Trust prefers candidates to submit applications online. Please contact the Recruitment Team on 01942 244000 if you have difficulty applying online.
The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated closing date if there is a high volume of applications.
We endeavour to inform all applicants of the outcome of their application by email or SMS text message.
Guidance on Completing Your Application
Applications are scored against the person specification, therefore we recommend that you use the supporting information section of your application form to demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role, providing illustrative examples where possible.
On-Call
Please note that some roles may require you to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.
WWL has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. and will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester Local Authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority; giving you access to our service-related benefits.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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