Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Sexual and Reproductive Health
| Posting date: | 16 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 p.a inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 0UN |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6311304/196-NM11622 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner post within our multi-disciplinary team. The focus of the post will be to provide high-quality clinical care, lead on service improvement initiatives and provide line management of the Clinical Nurse Specialists. The successful candidate will work closely with the Matron and SRH management team to provide professional leadership within the clinical area. You will require extensive clinical and managerial experience in Sexual and Reproductive Health. You will have to possess advanced clinical practice skills and have experience training nurses in contraception and genito-urinary competencies.We are looking for a proactive and strategic senior nurse with a vision for service transformation, to lead and develop the nursing group. We would like a candidate that can be a voice for clinical excellence and nursing expertise.
Advert closing: 29th May 2024
Interview date: 6th June 2024
Provide care to patients involving; assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment to an advanced level. This must include engagement, consultation and negotiation with patients at the centre.
Provide a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making.
To contribute to the Trust’s, Directorates and Teams Clinical Governance and Quality assurance programmes, setting and monitoring practice standards, jointly developing guidelines, protocols and innovative solutions with the service and in liaison with interdisciplinary colleagues.
To lead and manage staff within the service, providing effective guidance, supervision, mentorship and performance management at an advanced level.
To work in close partnership with the appropriate Clinical Leads and Service Managers to ensure relevant national initiatives and targets in relation to speciality are met.
To evaluate own practice and participate in multi-professional team and service evaluation, demonstrating the impact of advanced practice on service function, effectiveness and quality, i.e. outcomes, experience and safety.
Be responsible for the nursing leadership of the Sexual & Reproductive Health Service, ensuring they are delivering within their scope of responsibility and that nursing performance and quality of service delivery does not fall below expected levels and standards
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.
The results of the 2020 NHS Staff Survey show that 90% of our staff feel "satisfied with the standard of care provided by the organisation" and would recommend the Trust to their friends/relatives. This is well above the national average of 74% for combined acute and community hospital trusts in England.
Specialist Ambulatory Services (SAS) provide a range of services across ambulatory, community and outpatient settings. These include, adult allergy, dermatology (general, specialist and cancer), genetics, rheumatology and lupus, sexual reproductive health and HIV.
Working within SAS you’ll be surrounded by an exceptional team of supportive colleagues. Their skill, passion and pride in what they do will inspire you and their encouragement will give you confidence. Their dedication and sense of teamwork will help push you to new heights. Caring for patients is our top priority and our staff often go the extra mile. Their commitment underpins our success – they reflect the diversity of the communities that we serve.
Clinical Practice
Practise in accordance with the respective code of professional conduct and within designated scope of practice, responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.
Demonstrate a critical understanding and adhere to the defined boundaries of advanced practice in this role.
To undertake advanced clinical practice as defined by the Health Education England (HEE) Framework and in doing so act as a source of expertise to others, in order to provide specialist multi-needs assessments using complex and advanced clinical reasoning demonstrating critical thinking, reflection and analysis to develop individual and group goal and task-oriented treatment plans.
Be a source of expert opinion for other staff across professional boundaries.
Have interpersonal skills that encourage patients and carers active participation in their care. Have advanced verbal and non-verbal communication skills. . Be able to receive and disseminate complex clinical information sensitively in all professional contexts, adapting to cultural and socioeconomic complexity.
The practitioner will use and demonstrate advanced sensory skills in the examination and assessment of patients with complex health conditions with narrow margins for error and demonstrates highly developed physical skills through clinical procedures and treatment where accuracy is important.
Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate evidence informed judgements and diagnoses.
To initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines advanced treatments and investigations.
Be able to exercise professional judgement to manage risk when uncertainty and complexity may be present and support teams to do likewise.
To network and work collaboratively with multi-agency and multi-professional groups to develop; maintaining and evaluating links to manage risk and issues across the wider health economy.
To act as a clinical role model / advocate for developing and delivering care that is responsive to changing requirements.
To be responsible for ordering investigations as appropriate and provide treatment and care both individually, as part of a team, and through referral to other agencies.
Will have the authority to admit or discharge patients from their caseload and refer patients to other health care providers as appropriate if this is within the scope of practice.
To evidence the underpinning subject-specific competencies to demonstrate capabilities that are appropriate to the individual, role setting and scope.
Undertake complaint investigations relating to patient care, leading the development of action plans to address area(s) of concern, identify learning and propose change to practice.
To have the knowledge and capability to appropriately apply national guidelines and legislation relating to health and social care to local service provision
To demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make positive changes using HEE’s framework to promote person centred approach in health and care.
Leadership and Management
To contribute to the Trust’s, Directorates and Teams Clinical Governance and Quality assurance programmes, setting and monitoring practice standards, jointly developing guidelines, protocols and innovative solutions with the service and in liaison with interdisciplinary colleagues.
To lead and manage staff within the service, providing effective guidance, supervision, mentorship and performance management at an advanced level.
Work with the clinical lead and Human Resources Department in the recruitment, selection, appointment and retention of staff.
To work in close partnership with the appropriate Clinical Leads and Service Managers to ensure relevant national initiatives and targets in relation to speciality are met.
To inform the service of changes in clinical practice which may influence service delivery, business planning and strategic reviews to support the delivery of meeting agreed objectives.
To critically apply clinical expertise in appropriate facilitatory ways to provide consultancy across professional and service boundaries.
To influence clinical reasoning and decision making to enhance quality, reduce unwarranted variation and promote the sharing and adoption of best practice.
To pro-actively initiate and develop effective relationships, fostering clarity of roles within teams across the Trust and wider health economy to encourage effective and efficient services.
To evaluate own practice and participate in multi-professional team and service evaluation, demonstrating the impact of advanced practice on service function, effectiveness and quality, i.e. outcomes, experience and safety.
To actively engage in peer review to inform own and other’s practice. The practitioner will have the capability to be able to, formulate and implement strategies to act on learning and make improvements.
To lead new practice and service redesign solutions within a quality improvement (QI) framework in response to feedback, evaluation, need and current evidence, working across boundaries.
To actively seek feedback, involvement and engagement with patients, carers, their families, service users and colleagues in the co-production of service improvements.
To demonstrate team leadership, resilience and determination, managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable.
To continue to develop practice in response to changing population health needs and engaging in thinking of the future e.g. impact of genomics and new treatments.
To constructively challenge others, escalating concerns that may affect patients, carers, and colleague’s safety and well-being.
To actively participate, plan or lead working groups proposing policy changes which may have when appropriate, a broad application across other departments and disciplines as an integral part of the job.
To line manage members of the team where appropriate ensuring regular mentorship, supervision and effective performance reviews are conducted. To have and demonstrate a knowledge of budget management.
To utilise advanced communication skills acting as a prime educator of other staff on own area of clinical expertise and on the role and scope of the service.
Education
To critically assess and address own learning needs, developing a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice.
To engage in own supervision, mentorship and performance review to continually demonstrate learning and development in the advanced role.
To engage in self-directed learning at an advanced level, critically reflecting to maximise clinical skills and knowledge as well as own potential to lead and develop care and services.
To advocate for and contribute to a culture of organisational learning to inspire future and existing staff.
To support the team to build capacity and capability through work based learning and inter-professional learning.
To act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor seeking to instil and develop confidence and capability in others.
To teach / deliver core or specialist training to the multi-professional workforce.
Research and Quality Improvement (QI)
To clinically engage in research/ QI activity, adhering to good research/ QI practice guidance, so that evidenced based strategies are developed and implemented to enhance quality, safety, productivity and efficiency.
To evaluate and audit own and other’s clinical practice.
To critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research and QI evaluations using the results to underpin own practice and to inform that of others.
To adopt a critical approach to identify gaps in the evidence base, alerting appropriate individuals and organisations to these and how they might be addressed.
To identify potential need for further research/ QI to strengthen evidence base.
To develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes.
To disseminate best practice research findings and quality improvement projects through appropriate media, e.g. presentations, peer review, publications.
To facilitate links between clinical practice and research through proactive engagement and networking.
Professional Accountability:
To comply with all Trust policies and procedures.
To demonstrate and role model Trust Values and Behaviours at all times.
To act in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) code of professional conduct and other Trust, professional and statutory guidance, policies and rules.
To make professionally autonomous decisions, for which they are accountable.
Responsible for own professional development and clinical/managerial update.
To undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner post within our multi-disciplinary team. The focus of the post will be to provide high-quality clinical care, lead on service improvement initiatives and provide line management of the Clinical Nurse Specialists. The successful candidate will work closely with the Matron and SRH management team to provide professional leadership within the clinical area. You will require extensive clinical and managerial experience in Sexual and Reproductive Health. You will have to possess advanced clinical practice skills and have experience training nurses in contraception and genito-urinary competencies.We are looking for a proactive and strategic senior nurse with a vision for service transformation, to lead and develop the nursing group. We would like a candidate that can be a voice for clinical excellence and nursing expertise.
Advert closing: 29th May 2024
Interview date: 6th June 2024
Provide care to patients involving; assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment to an advanced level. This must include engagement, consultation and negotiation with patients at the centre.
Provide a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making.
To contribute to the Trust’s, Directorates and Teams Clinical Governance and Quality assurance programmes, setting and monitoring practice standards, jointly developing guidelines, protocols and innovative solutions with the service and in liaison with interdisciplinary colleagues.
To lead and manage staff within the service, providing effective guidance, supervision, mentorship and performance management at an advanced level.
To work in close partnership with the appropriate Clinical Leads and Service Managers to ensure relevant national initiatives and targets in relation to speciality are met.
To evaluate own practice and participate in multi-professional team and service evaluation, demonstrating the impact of advanced practice on service function, effectiveness and quality, i.e. outcomes, experience and safety.
Be responsible for the nursing leadership of the Sexual & Reproductive Health Service, ensuring they are delivering within their scope of responsibility and that nursing performance and quality of service delivery does not fall below expected levels and standards
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.
The results of the 2020 NHS Staff Survey show that 90% of our staff feel "satisfied with the standard of care provided by the organisation" and would recommend the Trust to their friends/relatives. This is well above the national average of 74% for combined acute and community hospital trusts in England.
Specialist Ambulatory Services (SAS) provide a range of services across ambulatory, community and outpatient settings. These include, adult allergy, dermatology (general, specialist and cancer), genetics, rheumatology and lupus, sexual reproductive health and HIV.
Working within SAS you’ll be surrounded by an exceptional team of supportive colleagues. Their skill, passion and pride in what they do will inspire you and their encouragement will give you confidence. Their dedication and sense of teamwork will help push you to new heights. Caring for patients is our top priority and our staff often go the extra mile. Their commitment underpins our success – they reflect the diversity of the communities that we serve.
Clinical Practice
Practise in accordance with the respective code of professional conduct and within designated scope of practice, responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.
Demonstrate a critical understanding and adhere to the defined boundaries of advanced practice in this role.
To undertake advanced clinical practice as defined by the Health Education England (HEE) Framework and in doing so act as a source of expertise to others, in order to provide specialist multi-needs assessments using complex and advanced clinical reasoning demonstrating critical thinking, reflection and analysis to develop individual and group goal and task-oriented treatment plans.
Be a source of expert opinion for other staff across professional boundaries.
Have interpersonal skills that encourage patients and carers active participation in their care. Have advanced verbal and non-verbal communication skills. . Be able to receive and disseminate complex clinical information sensitively in all professional contexts, adapting to cultural and socioeconomic complexity.
The practitioner will use and demonstrate advanced sensory skills in the examination and assessment of patients with complex health conditions with narrow margins for error and demonstrates highly developed physical skills through clinical procedures and treatment where accuracy is important.
Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate evidence informed judgements and diagnoses.
To initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines advanced treatments and investigations.
Be able to exercise professional judgement to manage risk when uncertainty and complexity may be present and support teams to do likewise.
To network and work collaboratively with multi-agency and multi-professional groups to develop; maintaining and evaluating links to manage risk and issues across the wider health economy.
To act as a clinical role model / advocate for developing and delivering care that is responsive to changing requirements.
To be responsible for ordering investigations as appropriate and provide treatment and care both individually, as part of a team, and through referral to other agencies.
Will have the authority to admit or discharge patients from their caseload and refer patients to other health care providers as appropriate if this is within the scope of practice.
To evidence the underpinning subject-specific competencies to demonstrate capabilities that are appropriate to the individual, role setting and scope.
Undertake complaint investigations relating to patient care, leading the development of action plans to address area(s) of concern, identify learning and propose change to practice.
To have the knowledge and capability to appropriately apply national guidelines and legislation relating to health and social care to local service provision
To demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make positive changes using HEE’s framework to promote person centred approach in health and care.
Leadership and Management
To contribute to the Trust’s, Directorates and Teams Clinical Governance and Quality assurance programmes, setting and monitoring practice standards, jointly developing guidelines, protocols and innovative solutions with the service and in liaison with interdisciplinary colleagues.
To lead and manage staff within the service, providing effective guidance, supervision, mentorship and performance management at an advanced level.
Work with the clinical lead and Human Resources Department in the recruitment, selection, appointment and retention of staff.
To work in close partnership with the appropriate Clinical Leads and Service Managers to ensure relevant national initiatives and targets in relation to speciality are met.
To inform the service of changes in clinical practice which may influence service delivery, business planning and strategic reviews to support the delivery of meeting agreed objectives.
To critically apply clinical expertise in appropriate facilitatory ways to provide consultancy across professional and service boundaries.
To influence clinical reasoning and decision making to enhance quality, reduce unwarranted variation and promote the sharing and adoption of best practice.
To pro-actively initiate and develop effective relationships, fostering clarity of roles within teams across the Trust and wider health economy to encourage effective and efficient services.
To evaluate own practice and participate in multi-professional team and service evaluation, demonstrating the impact of advanced practice on service function, effectiveness and quality, i.e. outcomes, experience and safety.
To actively engage in peer review to inform own and other’s practice. The practitioner will have the capability to be able to, formulate and implement strategies to act on learning and make improvements.
To lead new practice and service redesign solutions within a quality improvement (QI) framework in response to feedback, evaluation, need and current evidence, working across boundaries.
To actively seek feedback, involvement and engagement with patients, carers, their families, service users and colleagues in the co-production of service improvements.
To demonstrate team leadership, resilience and determination, managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable.
To continue to develop practice in response to changing population health needs and engaging in thinking of the future e.g. impact of genomics and new treatments.
To constructively challenge others, escalating concerns that may affect patients, carers, and colleague’s safety and well-being.
To actively participate, plan or lead working groups proposing policy changes which may have when appropriate, a broad application across other departments and disciplines as an integral part of the job.
To line manage members of the team where appropriate ensuring regular mentorship, supervision and effective performance reviews are conducted. To have and demonstrate a knowledge of budget management.
To utilise advanced communication skills acting as a prime educator of other staff on own area of clinical expertise and on the role and scope of the service.
Education
To critically assess and address own learning needs, developing a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice.
To engage in own supervision, mentorship and performance review to continually demonstrate learning and development in the advanced role.
To engage in self-directed learning at an advanced level, critically reflecting to maximise clinical skills and knowledge as well as own potential to lead and develop care and services.
To advocate for and contribute to a culture of organisational learning to inspire future and existing staff.
To support the team to build capacity and capability through work based learning and inter-professional learning.
To act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor seeking to instil and develop confidence and capability in others.
To teach / deliver core or specialist training to the multi-professional workforce.
Research and Quality Improvement (QI)
To clinically engage in research/ QI activity, adhering to good research/ QI practice guidance, so that evidenced based strategies are developed and implemented to enhance quality, safety, productivity and efficiency.
To evaluate and audit own and other’s clinical practice.
To critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research and QI evaluations using the results to underpin own practice and to inform that of others.
To adopt a critical approach to identify gaps in the evidence base, alerting appropriate individuals and organisations to these and how they might be addressed.
To identify potential need for further research/ QI to strengthen evidence base.
To develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes.
To disseminate best practice research findings and quality improvement projects through appropriate media, e.g. presentations, peer review, publications.
To facilitate links between clinical practice and research through proactive engagement and networking.
Professional Accountability:
To comply with all Trust policies and procedures.
To demonstrate and role model Trust Values and Behaviours at all times.
To act in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) code of professional conduct and other Trust, professional and statutory guidance, policies and rules.
To make professionally autonomous decisions, for which they are accountable.
Responsible for own professional development and clinical/managerial update.
To undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024