Main area: Surgical Advanced Nurse Practitioner for ENT, Maxfax and Plastics (SNAP)
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 200-6968049-GO-ND
Employer: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Georges Site
Town: London
Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 pa Incl
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/02/2025 23:59
Surgical Advanced Nurse Practitioner - ENT, Maxfax and Plastics (SNAP)
Band 8a
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
Surgical Nurse Advanced Practitioner (SNAP)
To work with the speciality services of ENT, Plastics and Maxfax, within the directorate of surgery.
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country’s leading teaching hospitals and the regional specialist care provider for South West London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
Main duties of the job
The Surgical Nurse Advanced Practitioner (SNAP) team have evolved over the past years as a result of changes to junior medical training and a desire to optimise patient pathways and provide more patient focused care. The team have rapidly become an integral part of delivering a high quality and responsive service across the specialities of ENT, Maxfax and Plastics.
The post holder will provide leadership and advanced clinical practice in the assessment and treatment of new presentations through A&E as well as established in-patient care. The successful candidate will be an independent prescriber with excellent clinical and decision making skills and a recognised advanced patient assessment course.
A competency based development programme and training opportunities will be provided for successful candidates without the relevant speciality based experience. These must be achieved within an agreed time frame in order to meet the requirements of the role.
Working for our organisation
St George’s is based in South West London, offering immediate access to central London and the beautiful Surrey countryside.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Specialty requirements
ENT:
* Throat infections: Tonsillitis/quinsy and epiglottitis
* Foreign body in ear, nose or throat
* Ear infection
* Elective head/neck admission for surgery
PLASTICS:
* Hand trauma/infections
* Wound assessment and management
MAX FAX:
* Dental infections
* Infected wounds
Person specification
* Registered clinical professional
* MSc level in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent (Minimum PGDip)
* Independent or supplementary non-medical prescriber (where relevant)
* 7 years post-registration experience, of which at least 5 years includes speciality experience
* Demonstration of experience in all four pillars of advanced clinical practice (clinical practice, leadership and management, research, education)
* Participation in audit and research
* Completed portfolio of supervised practice in speciality
* Certified speciality courses
* Relevant NHS leadership qualification or working towards
* Experience as clinical Leader
* Experience in an autonomous practice role
* Previous experience in an advanced practice role
* Experience of service development
* NMC registered Independent prescriber or meets criteria to undertake within 6 months of appointment.
* Advanced clinical assessment skills/ANP qualification
* Experience of running research and audit programmes
* Completed a recognized leadership development programme
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features.
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.
Name: Camille Penales
Job title: Surgical Matron
Email address: camille.penales@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 02087252640
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