Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist Paediatric Respiratory

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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Job overview

We are a specialist paediatric respiratory service and helped pioneer the development of the specialty in the UK. We diagnose and treat infants and children with all types of respiratory problems, and specialise in complex illnesses. We see children referred by local GPs as well as by hospitals in south London and south east England. Our outpatients clinics include general respiratory, asthma, difficult asthma, tuberculosis, non-CF bronchiectasis, ventilation (NIV and invasive), and a weekly rapid access clinics.

Lead and deliver an expert nursing service within the paediatric respiratory service, and manage a caseload of patients. Assessing patients, planning and implementing care, providing specialist advice; maintaining associated records.

Be the lead specialist in a defined area of nursing care; provide specialist education and training to other staff and students

Use knowledge and skills as a basis from which further to develop practice, understanding the implications of the social, economic and political context of health care, including the assessment and management of risk. This will be achieved by engaging in flexible, cross-boundary partnership working facilitating the care of this group of people in the community.

Develop evidence based clinical nursing practice by undertaking research and lead on clinical audits in own specialist area.

Main duties of the job

To work as an autonomous senior clinical nurse specialist to co-ordinate and deliver expert nursing care effectively to a defined caseload of children and young people and their families across both the acute and community setting.

To lead in the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines.

To maintain clear lines of communication with primary healthcare teams in order to increase knowledge and facilitate the care of this group of children, young people and families in the community.

To act as a key resource and source of specialist support to colleagues across primary/secondary/tertiary care settings.

Particular emphasis is put at Kings on the need to ensure that all staff recognize their responsibility to deliver services in a high quality, courteous, patient focused manner maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.

Working for our organisation

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide specialist nursing service for babies, children, and young people with specialist respiratory care needs. Provide expert nursing advice and support to patients, families and other healthcare professionals following diagnosis and through treatment.

To accept responsibility for own patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues and recommendations made.

Assess health, health related and nursing needs of the children and young people, families and other carers by identifying and initiating appropriate steps for effective care for individuals and groups. This can include: managing a patient caseload; ordering/advising on diagnostic tests; making and receiving referrals; admitting and discharging patients for specified conditions and within agreed protocols; running clinics; prescribing medicines and treatment

Attend/run outpatient clinics to follow up patients and ensure all relevant information is available to enable patients to make informed choices about their treatment

Assess and manage critical and clinical events to ensure safe and effective care.

Support and empower patients, their families and other carers to influence and participate in decisions concerning their care by providing information on a range of specialist nursing care and services.

Facilitate learning in relation to identified health needs for patients and carers.

Implement programmes of education and training in according to the identified health needs of patients, carers and other involved in their care

Provide counselling and psychological support for individuals and their carers.

Act independently within a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency context Promote children well-being and safeguarding them from harm, and work within agreed policies for reporting concerns including concerns about colleagues.

Challenge existing boundaries of practice where patient care can be enhanced by broader nursing roles

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC Part 1 (Children)
• Relevant Master's degree or evidence of working at masters level and willingness to complete a master level programme
• Non-Medical Prescribing Course

Experience

Essential criteria

• Track record of practice and innovative service development, including taking a lead in the implementation of policy
• Ability to impart complex information to patients, parents and carers, with different levels of understanding

Desirable criteria

• Experience of running research and audit programmes

Skills

Essential criteria

• Expert relevant paediatric clinical skills
• Self-directive with excellent time management and organisational skills to support lone working and direct others' time
• Advanced clinical assessment skills

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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

• Senior Paediatric Respiratory CNS Job Description (PDF, 384.4KB)
• Denmark Hill Site Map (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Visa and Sponsorship Information (PDF, 352.6KB)