Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our well-established Paediatric Respiratory Long-Term Ventilation (LTV) Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) team, as a Deputy Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Evelina London Children’s hospital.
We are looking for a highly motivated, passionate and enthusiastic individual with excellent transferable paediatric nursing, communication skills and a desire to advocate for children and young people with complex needs and their families.
The paediatric LTV service, covers the local population and acts as the tertiary hub for a network of secondary care services across South London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
We treat children in various clinical settings such as, outpatients and those admitted to our in-patients’ wards. These CYP have a range of conditions and needs which can affect their ability to breath. The role involves supporting the initiation, education, discharge and support of technology dependent CYP with highly complex medical needs.
Our ideal candidate would have excellent communication skills, an ability to work alongside professionals from different professional backgrounds including social care and community-based establishments. We are a friendly team, and excited to welcome someone who would like to join us in the outstanding provision of LTV care.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be involved with outpatient clinics, virtual clinics, transition from paediatric to adult care clinics, MDT clinics, as well as assisting with complex discharges and liaising with other teams in the network and community services.
The successful candidate will work in collaboration with an existing CNS team to act as a resource of expert advice for other healthcare professionals and must be competent to deliver health promotion and education to parents, their families and others.
To work collaboratively with other paediatric clinical and operational teams to ensure effective communication between the multi-disciplinary team at the Evelina and provide co-ordinated care in collaboration with others specialist services, such as the paediatric ENT, cardiology, COMPAS, gastroenterology or neurology teams, where appropriate.
Communicate effectively across the regional network, to provide a co-ordinated equitable specialist service delivery, liaising with both primary care and district general hospitals and working with schools and charities.
To use specialist knowledge to effectively communicate with families, providing education, reassurance and on-going support to children and families about their diagnosis, treatment options and outcomes.
Educate and empower children and families to learn the skills to self-manage their condition and care.
Provide telephone and email support to families, which can at times be very sensitive.
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.
At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
We are committed to supporting professional development, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge we offer amazing resources to help support our staff’s emotional wellbeing and resilience.
If you have what it takes to be an amazing Evelina Nurse, and have the appetite to join a forward thinking, positive environment, where aspiration and innovation are encouraged, we want you to join us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
-Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
-Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care
-To be responsible, for maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and other staff within the clinical environment.
-Ensure staff take precautions to minimise the risk of cross infection in relation to the safe disposal of body fluids (including blood).
-Assess educational and information needs for patients and families, and devise plans to ensure need are met.
-Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of the specialist service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards
-Identify and intervene where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for patients and staff. To bring instances to the attention of the senior nursing team.
-Facilitate a high quality, cost effective specialist service through monitoring and audit and other quality initiatives agreed by the Trust
-Identify and raise awareness of the educational needs of patients and carers and implement appropriate education programmes
-To assist the Clinical Nurse Specialist team in developing a culture that is challenging, stimulating, rewarding and supportive.
-Assist the Clinical Nurse Specialist team to ensure that all students and newly appointed staff have identified mentors/preceptors.
-Contribute and assist the Clinical Nurse Specialist team to foster a learning environment within the clinical area.
-Promote and undertake nursing research updating own knowledge to promote excellence in clinical practice.
-Provide a leadership role model and demonstrate specialist knowledge and high standards of clinical practice and provide support or advice when necessary.
-In co-ordinating the day-to-day management of the clinical care, delegates duties and care appropriately whilst maintaining overall responsibility.
-Ensures that staffing and skill mix is maintained, at all times, to a level that does not compromise patient safety.
-To be involved in the development, assessment and implementation of guidelines, protocols and pathways.
-To deputise for the senior Clinical Nurse Specialist team in their absence
Please see attached job description for full details
Person specification
Values and behaviour
Essential criteria
1. Demonstrates trust values
2. Evidence of respect for others, role modelling, good clinical practice
Experience
Essential criteria
3. Post registration experience within paediatrics
4. Experience of teaching/ assessing/ supervising others in a clinical setting.
5. Experienced and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
Skills
Essential criteria
6. Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives.
7. Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
8. Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management
Qualifications & Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential criteria
9. Mentorship/SSAP qualification
10. BSc nursing or equivalent
11. NMC Registered Children's Nurse
Desirable criteria
12. Leadership qualification or training
13. Additional training within speciality
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.