Job summary
- Main area
- Dermatology
- Grade
- 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Post will be covering clinics across the organisation
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (May be required to support clinics on Saturdays)
- Job ref
- 292-6239003-CSS
- Employer
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Harlow
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per Annum (Plus 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Dermatology advanced clinical practitioner
8a
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
Our values
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
Job overview
To provide expert practice and professional nursing leadership in relation to dermatological nursing. As an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will work in conjunction with the members of the multi-disciplinary team and lead clinician to ensure the continuous improvement in patient care delivery and clinical quality.
The post holder will function as an expert practitioner, demonstrating advanced clinical skills and knowledge in the field of dermatology, including the assessment of patients and initiation of treatment, ordering of investigations and obtaining written consent, thereby improving the quality and efficiency of the dermatology nursing service.
The post holder will maintain clinical credibility by spending a minimum of 70% of time in clinical practice across the range of dermatology outpatients clinics across multiple sites
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the assessment and delivery of care needs.
- To make clinical decisions for a defined patient group
- Be an independent prescriber with a wide scope of practice
- Complex decision making
- Independently receive and make onward referrals, e.g. in skin cancer, children & young people, inflammatory skin clinic.
- Take an independent and leadership role in carrying out surgical procedures which are diverse or more complex.
- Required to teach, support and develop patients/parents/carers
- Supervise and support junior nurses and Health Care Assistants.
- Carry out other duties commensurate with the grade
- To assume responsibility for their workload ensuring that they adhere to the Trusts policies and procedures
- To work as part of a Multi-disciplinary team
Working for our organisation
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification, available to download at any time.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level
- Knowledge and skills to deliver complex surgical procedures
- Demonstrate leadership and team management at senior level
- Non-medical prescriber
- Evidence of developing patient pathways
Desirable criteria
- Publication of articles
- Experience of working in community or primary care nursing
Skills
Essential criteria
- In depth knowledge of dermatological diagnostics provided by nurse led service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Toni Wright
- Job title
- Head of nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01279 973227
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