Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Valve Inequity
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
We are delighted to offer an opportunity for an advanced nurse practitioner in valve disease to join an exciting and dynamic team addressing health inequality in South-East London on the aortic stenosis pathway. You will be an integral part of this project in the community but also part of a wider structural nurse team based at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. You will be working on the project in the community, specifically an NHS England funded valve screening project in Lambeth and Southwark.
Main Duties of the Job
You will be an independent nurse practitioner able to assess and educate patients with potential valve disease. You will play a leading role in the organisation, establishment and delivery of a community-based valvulopathy screening programme aimed at the early identification of valvular heart disease. This post will also lead extensive engagement with the community and GP services to understand barriers to identifying patients with valve disease.
About Us
The postholder will be required to conduct community clinics and outreach initiatives but will have a base at St Thomas' Hospital. The clinics will run with the support of a cardiac physiologist who will perform the echocardiography for the project. The nurse will also be supported by a valve consultant and a nurse consultant for structural heart disease.
Job Responsibilities
1. Receive patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and make an assessment of their health care needs, based on highly-developed nursing knowledge and skills.
2. Be an autonomous practitioner in forming clinical decisions and complex management plans in the diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and escalation of patients along the pathway where necessary.
3. Make differential diagnoses using decision-making and problem-solving skills and have the authority to admit or discharge patients from their caseload, and refer patients to other health care providers as appropriate.
4. Participate in projects and research that will enhance personal performance and the operation of the service. Contribute towards meeting the objectives of the Nursing & Midwifery Strategy.
5. Hold virtual and on-site educational events and forums for referring centres and GPs regarding aortic stenosis, TAVI, and the services available in South London.
6. Lead and deliver a number of mobile valve clinics across the London boroughs of Lambeth and Lewisham alongside an Echophysiologist.
7. Provide effective communication and forge effective links within primary, secondary, and tertiary care.
We will consider offering a band 7 valve specialist nurse role if there are no appropriate 8A applicants. This post is being interviewed at the same time as the echophysiologist role for this project. Offers of employment will only be made if both posts have successful applicants.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Bachelor's Degree in nursing, health or management-related studies.
* Be an independent prescriber according to the Trust's Non-medical prescribing policy.
* Advanced physical assessment qualification.
* Certificated specialty courses.
Skills
* Advanced assessment and history taking skills.
* Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of specialty with a wide range of approaches to the management of patients, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and ability to comprehensively assess patients for risk factors and early signs of illness.
* Excellent written and advanced verbal communication skills demonstrating the use of a variety of media/IT skills.
* Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
Experience
* Broad clinical experience relevant to the post, including specialist skills and experience in specialty.
* Experience of running own clinics.
* Experience of teaching patients and staff and others including health promotion and prevention orientation.
* Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering change and performance with and through clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans.
* A proven track record of operational service management at a senior level in an acute hospital environment, including staff management, financial management, and change management.
* Leading a community diagnostics clinic.
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.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
£61,927 to £68,676 a year per annum in HCA.
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