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Paediatric Inherited Cardiac Conditions Nurse Specialist
Closed for applications on: 22-Nov-2024 00:04
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 22-Nov-2024 00:04
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Address
- Sydney Street
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SW3 6NP
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Paediatric
- Interview date
- 27/11/2024
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
Are you an experienced nurse with knowledge of cardiomyopathy and channelopathies? Are you passionate about delivering high quality, family-centred care and working closely with the MDT and local teams to acheive this?
We are seeking a Paediatric Inherited Cardiac Conditions Nurse: a highly specialised field, working with children, young people and their families.
The post-holder will work cross-site and collaborate with our network partners, to support children young people, their families and carers, ensuring they have access to relevant, up to date information and education about their condition.
Closing dates: 21/11/2024
Interview date: 27/11/2024
Advert
The Paediatric Inherited Cardiac Conditions Nurserole supports children, young people and their families with conditions such as dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, as well as channelopathies including Long QT, Brugada syndrome and CPVT.
The scope of the role is across our hospital sites of Royal Brompton and Harefield and Evelina London. This role also links closely to our Lifelong cardiac network, with communication to local centres and across the MDT.
There is great opportunity to be involved in service development, local and national education, also audit and research. Evidence of experience in these areas is preferable.
The successful candidate will be kind and compassionate, be an excellent communicator, a great team player, be a critical problem solver, be able to multitask, and to use basic computer software such as Windows, PowerPoint, and Excel. Some knowledge of genomics is also highly desirable.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICS
- CNS consultation for new patients (education, genetics , family history taking, receive family history medical info. e.g. post mortems, support for new diagnoses)
- Health transition consultations
- General support (school, finance, housing).
- Pre-clinic CNS consultation to introduce service and gather sensitive family history, support for bereavement
- Screening clinic lists and adding requests for investigations, ensuring relevant investigations have been performed (clinical and family trees).
INPATIENT
- Meeting newly diagnosed patients on PICU/HDU/ward and day case: offer support, education and introduce service
- Discharge planning as per discharge pathway (to include ensuring parents receive BLS training, CCNT referrals, symptom tracker, medication awareness, family screening, arrange follow-up appointment)
- Post discharge CNS consultation to check in and ask about wellbeing, medications etc
- General – liaise with school, arrange family screening, psychology input, support any housing/work/finance
- For transplant candidates, liaising with GOSH transplant team and palliative care
OUTPATIENT
- Ad-hoc CNS consultations
- General patient queries and advice via email and voicemail
- Triage majority/all referrals across the ICC service (CM/IA), request appropriate appointment and send CNS letter, ensure appropriate investigations are requested and co=ordinate with NIV/Schedulers/echo
- Arranging service-initiated referrals (as per protocol)
- Liaising with genetics teams – supporting genetic counselling, relaying genomic information to patients and explaining results
- School care plans
- School meeting for education or support
- Letters of support/advice/education (housing, travel, school, financial support, insurance, DLA)
- Safeguarding (regularly supervision/meetings, attending SG and social care meetings)
- Delivering parental BLS training
- MDTs – ICC care group (monthly), cardiomyopathy flags (weekly), inherited arrhythmia MDT (monthly), cardiomyopathy/ICD MDT
- Liaising with local health care teams
GENOMICS (INPATIENT AND OUTPATIENT)
- Gathering genomic information to support family screening
- Relaying complex information to patients/families
- Supporting patients with decision making and understanding of processes
- Taking detailed family history information and creating family trees
- Identifying family member who require screening, offering cascade screening letters and facilitating predictive genetic testing for family members where appropriate
- Awareness of ‘at risk’ geneotype and ensuring patients receive regular surveillance and monitoring in addition to the ‘norm’
SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
- Updating SOPS and patient pathways (with Drs)
- Nursing research (to develop patient care, update knowledge, create new pathways)
- Contributing towards journal articles
- Review written and electronic patient information
- Networking at events, conferences and across the Trust sites
- Personal development
EDUCATION
- Education for in-house training, on the wards/PICU, external study days, MSc programmes and patient days
- Presenting research at conference (poster and oral)
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.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent
- Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience.
- Leadership course
- Teaching/mentoring experience
Desirable criteria
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area 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
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering change management
Skills/Knowledge/Ability
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty.
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
- Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition.
- Ability to clinically lead & influence staff
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of nursing
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal & communication skills
- Time management and organisation skills
- Ability to conduct & evaluate own projects successfully
- Knowledge of current clinical & nursing research
Desirable criteria
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data and findings
- Undertaken nurse research
- Patient assessment course
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alice Ciovina
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for Paediatric Cardiology CNS Teams
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07506797448
- Additional information
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions or to arrange an informal visit.
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