Site: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Town: East Grinstead
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/12/2024 23:59
Welcome to Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and thank you for your interest.
In addition to receiving tertiary referrals from across the South East of England, we have a network of ‘spoke’ sites at district general hospitals enabling our consultants to offer their expertise with routine treatments and consultations as close to patients’ homes as possible. With the recent addition of video-led ‘virtual’ consultations, we also enable patients who have some distance to travel to avoid the additional stress and worry of a long journey.
Working at QVH combines the excitement, challenge, and career opportunities of larger organisations with the satisfaction of delivering excellent patient care that truly re-builds our patients’ lives.
We also offer attractive benefits such as:
* Tailored personal development to support career aspirations, including accredited clinical and management development programmes.
* Flexible working arrangements for a work-life balance that suits you and your needs.
* A dedicated reward programme, offering a range of national and local discounts, cashback, and tax relief schemes.
Sustainability
At Queen Victoria Hospital, we aim to be the first Net Zero Hospital in England, and we want every member of staff to be a green champion. The way in which the Trust works has a significant impact on the organisation’s carbon footprint and that of our patients. The Trust expects all staff to reuse and recycle more, use energy and water efficiently, walk or cycle to work if possible, and focus on sustainability in the workplace.
As the Trust’s Plastic Outreach Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will provide expert tailored treatment, advice, consultation, support, and guidance to patients, carers, and referring trusts. You will work as a highly skilled, expert, advanced, and autonomous practitioner liaising within multi-professional teams, both within QVH and across all NHS trusts in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to visit patients in various environments and offer specialist advice to other healthcare professionals, carry out wound care checks, and provide treatments for QVH patients.
A large part of this role is collaboration with other healthcare professionals and imparting knowledge and experience to provide the best care for the patient and their wound. Providing education and learning to others is essential.
Other duties include developing the service for the future, ensuring sustainable growth while maintaining standards of specialist care. You will innovate and change current practice through the delivery of appropriate education and training to meet service needs.
Where necessary, work closely with the Burns Outreach Specialist Nurse to manage patients appropriately and gain support and advice to ensure continuity of care, adopting a tailored approach for all patients accessing both outreach services.
Working for our organisation
Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC, QVH is a specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care, and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.
We specialise in conditions of the eyes (corneoplastics), hands, head and neck cancer, skin cancer, reconstructive breast surgery, maxillofacial surgery, and prosthetics, providing regional and national services in these areas of clinical expertise. Our world-leading clinical teams also treat more common conditions of the eyes, hands, skin, and teeth for the people of East Grinstead and the surrounding areas. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and a growing portfolio of community-based services. Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care.
Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will be part of a small team intent on driving the implementation of national best practice guidance for lower limb care. We hold a unique position in the south-east coast where lower limb traumas are referred within a day of injury, and with a prompt assessment and implementation of a robust care plan, we can reduce the risk of the development of leg ulcers.
You will be responsible for assessing, diagnosing, implementing, planning, and reviewing care needs for the lower limb patient. It is desirable that you are experienced in performing complex Doppler assessments, interpreting ABPI, and implementing treatment according to findings.
Patients are assessed initially from a photo on referral, after which a plan is formulated, putting the patient at the centre of the assessment process. You will need to use clinical expertise and work autonomously, although a weekly MDT discusses more complex patients when needed.
You will be expected to attend patients in all environments they may be in, offering specialist advice to nursing homes, district nurses, practice nurses, and acute nurses in their care of their patients. Therefore, you must be a confident car driver with UK licence experience; a car is provided during working hours.
A candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills, using communication of all forms, and be skilled in the use of information technology.
Undertake wound therapies, such as negative pressure wound therapy, larval therapy, ABPI assessment, and application of compression therapies as required.
In cases of larger lower limb wounds where good conservative management will still lead to a lengthy healing time, pre-assess the patient for skin grafting and provide the initial postoperative care, handing over to community or acute teams when appropriate.
The job role also involves visiting patients at home for QVH if there are significant reasons the patient cannot attend for a dressing change, so a working knowledge of a variety of plastics procedures is beneficial but not essential as a period of supernumerary time can be spent with the dressings clinic or wards.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Working towards or a master's degree to demonstrate specialist knowledge.
* Facilitating learning in practice (mentorship).
* Plastic surgery qualification.
* Wound care qualification.
Experience
* Specialist wound care knowledge, not limited to compression therapies, ABPI assessment, negative pressure therapy & larvae therapy.
* Current experience in an acute clinical setting as a band 6 or above.
* Working within an MDT.
* Experience of developing clinical protocols and procedures.
* Experience of working with a quality improvement framework and completing projects.
Knowledge and skills
* Knowledge of the latest wound care management.
* Ability to work autonomously.
* Ability to carry out sharp debridement on patients' wounds.
* Excellent teaching and presentation skills to a varied audience.
Additional skills
* A full UK driving licence.
The closing date given is a guide only. There may be occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
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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