Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Princess Royal Hospital
Town: Bromley
Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 per annum pro rata including HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/11/2024 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
To work as an expert clinical practitioner and effectively deliver an expert nursing service in the specialist area.
To further develop the Haemato-oncology service (including optimising patient pathways, improving the patient experience, and developing proactive patient support models).
To independently manage a caseload of patients/clients.
To ensure that patients and their families are fully informed and supported by providing clinical and social support.
To lead the development of evidence-based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines.
To establish clear lines of communication with primary healthcare teams to increase knowledge and facilitate the care of this group of people in the community.
Main duties of the job
* To provide and manage an expert specialist nursing service for people with specialist needs.
* To provide expert nursing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following diagnosis and through treatment.
* To ensure continuity of a high standard of evidence-based nursing care, assessing health, health-related and nursing needs of patients, their families and other carers by identifying and initiating appropriate steps for effective care.
* To accept responsibility for own patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues and recommendations made ensuring clear documentation in the patient’s record and hand-held records.
* To be actively involved in inpatient care, liaising with ward staff to ensure high quality nursing care.
* Where appropriate, to lead nurse-led outpatient services ensuring nurse consultation with all newly diagnosed patients.
* To follow-up patients as appropriate and ensure all relevant information is available to enable patients to make an informed choice about their treatment.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC Level 1 or Level 15 Registered Nurse.
* A clinical expert either through formal qualification (Degree/Master) and/or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the area.
* Relevant post-registration qualification (communication/psychological care/cancer care/SACT).
Skills and Experiences
* Ability to impart complex information to patients, relatives and carers, with different levels of understanding.
* Strong leadership skills.
* Proven experience of service development.
* Experience in running research and audit programmes.
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* All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
* Due to a high volume of applications, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. It is therefore recommended that you apply promptly.
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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