Interstitial Lung Disease Clinical Nurse Specialist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 p.a Inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE19RT |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6261539/196-NM11562 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a highly motivated registered nurse with proven clinical skills in respiratory nursing to join a well-developed and supportive multidisciplinary ILD team within a nationally commissioned service. We work closely with our colleagues at Kings Hospital with a tertiary referral service known as Kings Health Partners (KHP-ILD service). You will be based at both the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ sites and a recent merge with The Royal Brompton Hospital brings the possibility of working closely with other ILD teams in the future.
This role requires the post holder to have demonstrable specialist clinical skills related to holistically caring for respiratory patients, with a special interest in interstitial lung disease.
Closing Date: 12th May 2024
Interview Date: 23rd May 2024
As a CNS you will review patients within both outpatient and inpatient settings. This may range from oxygen assessment, symptom management and palliative support in our nurse-led clinics. In addition, you will be required to contribute to the education of the chest clinic, ward and community staff to enhance knowledge and current management of respiratory diseases, including monitoring of long term and ambulatory oxygen, advice and administration of cytotoxic medications, biologics and immunosuppression.
The role also requires you to support patients with palliative needs, advising and supporting patients and their families and liaising closely with community palliative care services to ensure continuity of care.
You will transfer, apply and develop your nursing knowledge and skills to ensure that the quality of care and the needs of adults with ILD are met in accordance to current national and Trust guidelines. You must be organised, confident and have excellent communication skills to enable you to liaise effectively with the MDT and work with a diverse and varied group of patients and carers. You will be integral in working alongside the Lead CNS with service development.
There are also opportunities to be involved with research in the department. Experience in an outpatient setting or with ILD is not essential, but evidence of your clinical skills, respiratory experience and a willingness to learn must be demonstrable.
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises of 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.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
• Managing a caseload of patients, providing information and support, to enable patients to make informed decisions regarding treatment.
• Conducting face-to-face and telephone clinic appointments between Guy’s and St. Thomas’ sites, ensuring that patients are seen within recommended time scales and targets.
• Work closely with the Pathway Coordinators to ensure clinics are managed efficiently and referrals processed in a timely manner.
• To attend inpatient ward rounds as appropriate to ensure continuity of care and to give advice/ support to hospital staff.
• To take joint responsibility in the ILD helpline, triaging and responding to patients and their relatives in a timely manner, escalating concerns as appropriate.
• Co-ordination of care for patients requiring ILD infusions within the chest clinic infusion suite and inpatient setting, using clinical judgement and assessment skills regarding cytotoxic and biologic medications, immunosuppression.
• To take joint responsibility for training the wider nursing team using cytotoxic medications once competent.
• Performing ambulatory oxygen assessments and completing appropriate referrals to community services (oxygen, PR, palliative care, hospice, dietetics, social services etc).
• Attend and contribute to a range of MDT meetings,internal and external meetings relevant to the service, including the Serious Respiratory Failure (SRF) meetings in critical care, Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis (APF), ILD-IN and South East Network meetings representing GSTT.
• Co-ordinate patient support groups and gain experience leading these sessions.
• Participate in ongoing ILD research projects, auditing and data collection.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to ILD and ensure that all relevant policies are adhered to.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 May 2024