Senior Staff Nurse - Dowling Phototherapy | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 p.a inc. HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 October 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 9RT |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6563720/196-NM12051 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Nursing within the Medical and Specialist Dermatology Services at Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust to cover Phototherapy Unit (Dowling Day) and Dermatology Day Care (DDC).
Closing date: 23rd September 2024
Interview date: 9th October 2024
We are looking for an ambitious, highly motivated individual who has substantive experience of working in Ambulatory Dermatology services. The Senior Staff Nurse will be expected to provide adequate visible leadership and management of patients attending for specialised treatment.
On Dowling Phototherapy, the senior staff Nurse will be expected to provide Narrowband UVB, PUVA, UVA, Iontophoresis and Excimer treatments to patients referred from general and tertiary specialist dermatology clinics for adults and paediatric patients with dermatological conditions.
On the Day centre the senior staff Nurse will provide expert Knowledge/experience in topical therapy and wound care treatment to our patient population. In addition, the post holder will also participate in the smooth running and provision of holistic care to patients on DDC and Dowling Day Unit.
The SSN will be expected to rotate between the different services in the Department. The post holder will be responsible for providing strong leadership skills and driving daily operational direction, managing the band 5 staff nurses and Healthcare Assistants application of Care, undertake writing up of topical treatments plans, explaining/demonstrating use of topical treatments, assisting with admission to DDC and referrals to the various services. There will also be opportunity to facilitate our outpatients clinic.
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 Dermatology department provides highly specialised treatments to a wide range of patients and comprise of a team of a diverse team of multi skilled nursing and medical staff who are trained to support the different services in the department. The team also undertake teaching of students, support audit activity, and other roles within their scope of practice.
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.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
• You will have substantive experience of providing treatment for patients with diverse dermatological skin conditions using a wide range of treatment such as narrow band UVA/UVB/PUVA/IONTOPHERESIS therapies
• . You will be familiar with topical treatments and biologic/systemic treatment pathways.
• You will have excellent communication, leadership, organizational and inter-personal skills and be able to work well within the multi-disciplinary team.
• You should be a Registered Nurse with post registration experience in Dermatology.
• You must be able to take part in structured teaching for patients, colleagues and students
• To be responsible for maintaining and updating own clinical practice and knowledge, including professional portfolio.
• Interactions with patients are non-judgmental and culturally sensitive
• To actively maintains documentation in accordance with the NMCs Record Keeping Guidelines
• Takes an active role in monitoring and ensuring standards of care at own base, developing awareness for clinical governance issues.
• Participate in collection of data for audit and research as required
This advert closes on Monday 23 Sep 2024