Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatric Neurology
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Paediatric Nurse to join our Neurosciences service as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, working predominantly with the Neurodevelopmental Team at the Evelina London Children's Hospital.The post holder with be supporting in the management of Children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions, predominately Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and also in the ongoing management of medications for children with neurodevelopmental disorders.The focus of the work will be working autonomously within a range of outpatient settings offering evidence-based advice and treatment, collaboratively with young people and their families. You will be expected to liaise with the wider system across health, education and social care to offer the best possible support to families of children with suspected ASD & ADHD.
The ability to travel independently will be necessary to fulfil job requirements. We are looking for an experienced and dynamic individual with excellent communication skills to join our friendly and experienced multidisciplinary 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 responsibilities
Detailed job description and main 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 medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
* Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the speciality. 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 within the 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 their practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve their knowledge and professional competence.
* Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced specialist clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures 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 thespecialist service, through the use of evidence-based practice and clinicalstandards
* 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
* Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register
* Evidence of leadership development
* Post registration qualification in relevant field
Skills
* Experience of teaching/ assessing/ supervising others
* Demonstrates effective written communication in application form
* Ability to clinically lead & influence staff
* Experience of nursing research /audit
* Experience of using of variety of IT applications to undertake clinic/meetings and patient care
* Experience of teaching/ facilitating training for external networks
Experience
* Relevant clinical experience in Neurology
* Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
* Experience as CNS or other senior role
* Experience of change management or service improvement
* Experience in staff management including undertaking appraisal
Values & behaviours
* Written examples of upholding trust values
* Written evidence of respecting others and role modelling good practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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