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Job summary

Main area
Paediatric Dermatology
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent: 37.5 hrs
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-NM11548
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£42,471 - £50,364 p.a inc. HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/05/2024 23:59
Interview date
16/05/2024

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Deputy Clinical Nurse Specialist

Band 6

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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Dermatology nurse to join our friendly and driven Paediatric Dermatology Clinical Nurse Specialist Team which is part of the internationally renowned St. John’s Institute of Dermatology. 

We are looking for a dynamic and committed nurse, who has a strong background in Dermatology is flexible, ambitious, and proactive and has the ability to communicate effectively across multi-professional boundaries. 

 Currently we see patients with eczema and other inflammatory skin diseases
• skin infections
• vascular malformations (collections of abnormal blood vessels) and birthmarks
• hair and nail disorders
• children's vulval skin disorders
• vitiligo (white patches on the skin)
• Rare skin conditions, including autoimmune blistering diseases, ichthyosis (thickened, dry and scaly skin) and ectodermal dysplasia (abnormal development of the skin, hair, nails, teeth or sweat glands).  

The Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist team run various clinics throughout the week seeing patients with Severe Eczema, General dermatology patients and patients on systemic and medication.

Closing Date 9th May 2024 

Interview Date 16th May 2024

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate is expected to clinically lead on nursing care along the patient pathway and work closely with the multidisciplinary team.

Once competent, the Deputy Clinical Nurse Specialist  will work autonomously managing their own nurse led clinics, which comprise of completing treatment plans, monitoring patients on systemic and biological therapies. 

You will be required to act as a role model providing clinical supervision, teaching and mentoring to junior colleagues and peers. 

There is an anticipation that you actively seek involvement in quality and improvement initiatives and undertake clinical audits with a view to being involved in research. 

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.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will  act as a lead specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service, providing specialist advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients working along side clinical Nurse specialist and consultants.  The post holder will actively undertake, nurse led clinics, clinical audits and teaching and education within the specialist area.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. Also ensures the safety and well being of services users, and
always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centred care principles.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in co-ordinating a clinic
  • Experienced and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
  • Experience of teaching/assessing/supervising others in the clinical setting
  • Previous Experience in dermatology
  • Supervision of Junior staff
Desirable criteria
  • Microsoft word/Excel skills
  • Previous post registration experience in the relevant speciality
  • Experience in service improvement and evaluation

Values & Behaviours

Essential criteria
  • Values & Behaviours

Qualification/Education

Essential criteria
  • BSc/1st degree health related or equivalent qualification/ training and experience
  • Mentorship/Teaching qualification
  • Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in Dermatology
  • Post registration qualification in or demonsrate relevant experience and competence to area
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership qualification

Professional/ Statutory Registration

Essential criteria
  • RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Charlotte Adjei
Job title
Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0207188 7188
Additional information

Charlotte Adjei email:- [email protected]

 

0207188 7188 Extn 54126

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