Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Part time may be considered)
- Job ref
- 196-NM11886
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Evelina London Children's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 p.a inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatric Allergy
Band 7
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Paediatric Allergy Team at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital as a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist. We run a busy world renowned, nurse led service, delivering extensive treatment and therapies to a broad range of patients. We are seeking an experienced allergy nurse who is an enthusiastic team player to join the service
Our Children’s Allergy service leads the way in the care of children and families living with atopic disease and we are one of the largest children's allergy services in Europe.
We are looking for dynamic individuals with excellent communication skills who will help drive the service forward - in return , we offer expert supervision and a every opportunity to develop your skills.
Closing date:1st August 2024
Interview date: 15th August 2024
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work in the outpatient and day-unit setting to provide holistic care to children with a broad spectrum of allergic disease including food, drug and venom allergy and allergic rhinitis
They will be supported by the team to develop and progress their allergy knowledge and skills. Alongside specialist learning there will be opportunities to contribute to governance by monitoring the quality of nurse led care, providing line management to junior members of the nursing team, contributing to guideline development and quality improvement projects.
Evelina London provides care for children and young people from across south London and south east England and provides a comprehensive range of hospital services, caring for patients from before birth, through childhood and on to adult services.
As a clinical nurse specialist you will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team working together to deliver this specialist service. You will be responsible for developing and working within evidence-based specialist pathways of care, guidelines, protocols and patient group directives to support patients and their families to improve care delivery.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical and Patient Care
- Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst
working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering specialised
individualised and personalised direct patient care - Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
- Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication
including transfusion of blood and blood products - Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the
speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same. - Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards withinthe NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
- Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
- Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
- To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the
planning delivery and evaluation of individualised specialist care. - Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.
- Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced specialist clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing
procedures to area. - To be responsible, for maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and other staff within the clinical environment.
- Ensure that sensitive patient records are stored appropriately.
Ensures the cultural and spiritual needs of patients are recognised and accommodated within resources available. - Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions
relating to their treatment and management. - Participate in case conferences in relation to the management of patients, ensuring the coordination of ongoing care.
- Ensure staff take precautions to minimise the risk of cross infection in
relation to the safe disposal of body fluids (including blood). - A key member of the multidisciplinary team in supporting patients and their carers during the delivery of bad news such as caring for the terminally ill patients and the event of death.
- Assess educational and information needs for patients and families, and devise plans to ensure need are met.
- To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment and management.
- Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of the specialist service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards
- Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and review.
*for more detailed responsibilities please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached*
Person specification
Values & behaviours
Essential criteria
- Clearly demonstrates evidence of Trust Values & behaviours in practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within allergy, delivering effective patient focused care.
- Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice
- Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition.
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal & communication skills
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills within allergy
- Evidence of skills within audit and research
Qualifications & Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential criteria
- Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
- Mentorship course
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience.
- Leadership course
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Batt
- Job title
- Nurse Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please contact to discuss the role in more detail - Rebecca Batt [email protected] (Nurse Consultant)
or Andrea Swan - [email protected] (Matron)
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