An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic individual passionate about delivering a high quality nurse led service for our patient's needs within Dermatology.
You will be expected to undertake the master's program including management modules along with Non-medical prescribing to enable you to develop nurse led clinics for follow-up patients.
This will be a demanding role with the expectations that you will continue developing nurse led service within Dermatology at a national and international level.
Although previous dermatology experience is desirable, many of the roles can be undertaken with knowledge of managing day to day running of a department and its members of staff. Knowledge of inflammatory skin conditions and skin minor surgery can be developed supported through in house competencies and MSc programme.
Main duties of the job
1. To be able to make clinical decisions for a defined patient group.
2. May be an independent prescriber or working towards for a defined patient group or undertaking medicines management including use of patient group direction (PDGs).
3. To be responsible, with the guidance of the senior nursing team, for the provision of Dermatology and Plastic surgery nurse led services and support with provision of wider service delivery.
4. Develop/Update patient information provision/clinical guidelines to maintain regular review and accuracy of content referring to National guidance as required.
5. Alongside the wider team coordinate/support Department development initiatives.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. NMC Registered
2. Evidence of continuing professional development through portfolio
Experience
Essential
1. Proven Band 5 Registered Nurse experience
2. Experience of managing others
3. Experience of supporting staff/team members within daily planning of the Department clinics including staff allocations.
Desirable
1. Experience of working within outpatient environment.
2. Proven recent experience of working in an Assessment Area.
Knowledge
Essential
1. Knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice.
Desirable
1. Ability to disseminate knowledge to others.
Skills
Essential
1. Effective communicator both orally and written
2. Skills in motivating others
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colchester Hospital
Turner Road
Colchester
CO4 5JL
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