Job summary
- Main area
- Dermatology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (until 31/03/2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1265
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Dermatology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 8a
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Are you an experienced Dermatology Nurse looking to further develop your career in this Specialty? If you have a non- medical prescribing course and experience of managing a patient work load this fixed term post at Imperial Healthcare Trust could be the perfect way to take your career to the next level.
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist you would be responsible for running your own clinics, prescribing and monitoring Biologic Medications and developing the Dermatology Services we provide at Imperial. You will work alongside the Dermatology Consultants in planning and implementing patient care, but also work as an independent practitioner in the delivery of care.
There are many opportunities at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust to develop your career and we encourage staff to undertake educational courses which complement their job role and help staff to fulfil their potential.
Main duties of the job
· We are seeking the appointment of an autonomous advanced clinical practitioner to run their own clinics and support the running of our systemic therapies drug monitoring clinic. This post will help create a new structured patient pathway to ensure safe and effective provision of systemic therapies for dermatology patients and will ensure the service can meet national best practice guidelines and quality standards.
· The Imperial College dermatology department has a vision of modernisation and becoming a leading unit in London, in order to achieve this, we need to provide a comprehensive and consistent service. Through the development of this novel service we will ensure systemic therapies patients’ needs are successfully met, improve their outcomes, improve utilisation of consultant capacity through development of nurse led clinics and therefore creating a more sustainable model of care.
· The advanced clinical practitioner is an experienced registered healthcare professional with specialist skills to assess and treat patients and manage the clinical environment, in collaboration with the management and consultant team. The advanced clinical practitioner will act as an autonomous practitioner in forming clinical decisions and complex management plans in the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of patients.
Please see Job description for complete list.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Nursing or other relevant healthcare professions
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice/equivalent
- Non-medical prescribing
- Certificated speciality courses Recognised teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing and running clinics
- Broad clinical experience relevant to the post
- Specialist skills and experience in the speciality
- Clinical leadership at a senior level in an acute setting including people, financial and change management
- Experience of managing investigations and resolving complaints
Desirable criteria
- Developed a network of clinical and academic contacts across the system
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of the speciality with a wide range of approaches to the management of complex patients
- Ability to lead a team of healthcare professionals.
- Ability to promote the contribution and impact of advanced level nursing across the organisation and wider healthcare system
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tim Rich
- Job title
- Lead Nurse Specialist Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3313 0787
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