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Main area
Peripheral Nerve Injury
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref
392-RNOH-CNS-A
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore
Salary
Salary is dependant on experience
Closing
08/08/2024 23:59

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Developmental Paediatric CNS for Peripheral Nerve Injury

NHS AfC: Band 6

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, dynamic Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit.  This will be a development Band 6 role with progression into Band 7 on completion of competencies (Typically 12-18 months).

 

The role offers vast opportunities and development both internal and external to the Trust.

 

We are seeking a highly motivated, committed, and passionate individual to join this team which works with paediatrics from as young as 3 months into adulthood.

 

You must have excellent communication skills, be able to work effectively in a multi – disciplinary team and prioritise your workload as well as being able to lead and maintain high standards of care.  You should be confident to work under your own initiative as well as under guidance from medical clinicians. Candidates should also possess ENB 219 or 371 and ENB 998 or equivalent and have at least two years’ experience as a band 6 nurse.

 

0.50 WTE

Main duties of the job

  • To work with the surgeons to develop a genuinely multi-disciplinary service this optimises patient care.
  •  To attend outpatient clinics and support the provision of an effective patient assessment and education service through the pre-operative assessment clinics.
  • Perform any clinical procedure, which is necessary for pre-operative assessment.
  • Request diagnostic and clinical investigations as appropriate.
  • Attend pre-operative conferences and post-operative ward rounds as necessary.
  • Run stand-alone follow-up outpatient clinics for patients who have routine operations.
  • Support ward-based nursing staff with information and advice about all aspects of surgical care.
  • Collaborate in the development of protocols concerning patient care and nursing practice.
  • Facilitate the development and implementation of protocols for post-operative care, and use clinical judgement when deviation from protocols is indicated.
  • Liaise with Allied Health Professionals to attempt to optimise multi-disciplinary care delivery.

Working for our organisation

RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To work with the surgeons to develop a genuinely multi-disciplinary service this optimises patient care.
  •  To attend outpatient clinics and support the provision of an effective patient assessment and education service through the pre-operative assessment clinics.
  • Perform any clinical procedure, which is necessary for pre-operative assessment.
  • Request diagnostic and clinical investigations as appropriate.
  • Attend pre-operative conferences and post-operative ward rounds as necessary.
  • Run stand-alone follow-up outpatient clinics for patients who have routine operations.
  • Support ward-based nursing staff with information and advice about all aspects of surgical care.
  • Collaborate in the development of protocols concerning patient care and nursing practice.
  • Facilitate the development and implementation of protocols for post-operative care, and use clinical judgement when deviation from protocols is indicated.
  • Liaise with Allied Health Professionals to attempt to optimise multi-disciplinary care delivery.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Professional Healthcare Registration, NMC - RSCN  First Degree or willingness to start a Degree within 12 months of appointment  Specialist course within your speciality or numerous years of experience at this level of nursing
Desirable criteria
  • Dual Trained  Management qualification.  Leadership qualification.  Master’s Degree or working towards this

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Established leadership skills  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills  Excellent practical skills and organisational abilities  Proactive in approach to developing services  Management Experience  Relevant experience at band 6 in associated speciality.  Experience of developing and delivering teaching programs in your speciality  Has worked as a member of Multi-professional team within an orthopaedic setting  Evidence of involvement in benchmarking and audit of services.
Desirable criteria
  • Speciality experience..  Introducing new services and methods of practice  Advanced Orthopaedic professional practice

Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate effective leadership skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Excellent practical skills and organisational ability. Resource management Ability to understand and present budgetary data. Ability to Innovate and motivate others. Demonstrates previous nursing development initiatives within other roles. Current knowledge of nursing specifically paediatric issues
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrate effective leadership skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Excellent practical skills and organisational ability. Resource management Ability to understand and present budgetary data. Ability to Innovate and motivate others. Demonstrates previous nursing development initiatives within other roles. Current knowledge of nursing specifically paediatric issues

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Relevant anatomy and physiology Relevant clinical and surgical knowledge Change management track record Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and diversity issues NHS organisation. Current national nursing issues. Able to evidence and track record of continual professional development within your speciality. Working knowledge of clinical governance Excellent knowledge of safeguarding procedures.
Desirable criteria
  • Anticipated pathway of career and personal development. Research methods. Knowledge of education and training issues Clinical Audit, Data collection and recording Research processes

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
Dennis Hazell
Job title
CNS for Peripheral Nerve Injury
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0203 947 0463
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