A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Responsibilities
* To provide excellent nursing care, utilising skills and competencies to paediatric trauma and orthopaedics patients.
* Support provision of a seamless patient pathway, from pre-operative assessment to surgery (if required).
* Oversee, run and review outpatient services, ensuring that the inpatient ward is supported.
* Communicate with professionals in the outreach service and different disciplines in the hospital.
* The CNS will work effectively as an autonomous practitioner and as a core member of the multi-disciplinary team within the paediatric trauma and orthopaedic service to provide the highest possible standards of care for patients with a range of conditions.
* Using the views of patients and carers, the CNS will work under the direction of the Matron for Surgery and the paediatric trauma and orthopaedic consultants to improve the care of patients, provide specialist help advice and support to their families and carers and to act as advocate by providing information which leads to informing patient and parent choice.
* Coordinate the paediatric major trauma patient pathway from ED through to discharge and oversee the development and implementation of standards and protocols to underpin this.
* Effectively manage a caseload of patients/clients.
* Support Consultant and Nurse Led Clinics.
* Liaise across the wider South West London and Surrey network, facilitating support for patients remaining local in the network’s hospitals and a nurse led repatriation service for trauma/T&O patients.
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