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Deputy Clinical Nurse Specialist in Surveillance – ROSSINI Platform
| Posting date: | 17 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,806 - £53,134 per annum inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 9RT |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7148509/196-NM12794 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
We are seeking a passionate, self-motivated, and driven Deputy Clinical Nurse Specialist who has experience in surgical wound care to join our dynamic remote wound monitoring programme. This programme will utilise the successful ‘Isla’ platform for surgical site infection surveillance as part of the Rossini Platform trial – a pioneering, multi-arm, multi-stage study aimed at reducing surgical site infections across six major surgical specialities.
This is a full-time, five-year fixed term role funded by the NIHR, based at one of our GSTT sites. If you are inspired by innovation, collaborative working, and a commitment to improving patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.
The post holder will be responsible for the running the ROSSINI Platform Surgical Site Infection Surveillance under the Central Digital Wound Hub. This will include supporting the research team, ensuring timely and appropriate remote care advice and referrals for surgical patients and carers, and expanding the service for all surgical arms of the ROSSINI Platform. The post holder will be responsible for data collection activities related to the service and will undertake reporting and line management activities.
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.
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.
The Surveillance and Innovation Unit (SUI) is a new unit in the Directorate of Infection. The Central Wound Hub will scale and sustain our award-winning digital surveillance programme. The Hub team will work with the surgical site infection (SSI) team, a dynamic, friendly team covering specialisms across the trust.
Clinical
· To oversee the daily running of the CDWH for the Rossini Platform study to ensure patients are reviewed and responded to in a timely manner on the digital remote wound platform (Isla).
· To support and line management of junior colleagues for optimal review patient submission on Isla for a seven-day and out-of-hours service.
· To provide timely review of patient submissions to the Central Digital Wound Hub, ensuring appropriate reassurance, advice and/or referral as required.
· To ensure early identification of patients who require MDT escalation for infection or delayed wound healing, and action this or support junior staff in doing so.
· To ensure information on clinically relevant information on community treatment is recorded for visibility and optimal care delivery.
· To collect and/or oversee data on clinical outcomes.
· To identify areas for improvement in relation to the Central Digital Wound Hub and work with the Trust Lead for SSI to deliver an improvement plan, using appropriate methodology.
· To participate in research studies as required.
· To work with the CTU and Isla providing specialist input in SSIS data collection, handling ensuring correct completion of surveillance forms or electronic surveillance data platforms
· To undertake audit in relation to SSIS and to ensure audit documentation is completed correctly.
· To work autonomously managing a case load of defined group of patients ensuring close surveillance is undertaken to identify Surgical Site Infections (SSI) and determine incidence and prevalence ofinfections
This advert closes on Friday 2 May 2025
We are seeking a passionate, self-motivated, and driven Deputy Clinical Nurse Specialist who has experience in surgical wound care to join our dynamic remote wound monitoring programme. This programme will utilise the successful ‘Isla’ platform for surgical site infection surveillance as part of the Rossini Platform trial – a pioneering, multi-arm, multi-stage study aimed at reducing surgical site infections across six major surgical specialities.
This is a full-time, five-year fixed term role funded by the NIHR, based at one of our GSTT sites. If you are inspired by innovation, collaborative working, and a commitment to improving patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.
The post holder will be responsible for the running the ROSSINI Platform Surgical Site Infection Surveillance under the Central Digital Wound Hub. This will include supporting the research team, ensuring timely and appropriate remote care advice and referrals for surgical patients and carers, and expanding the service for all surgical arms of the ROSSINI Platform. The post holder will be responsible for data collection activities related to the service and will undertake reporting and line management activities.
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.
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.
The Surveillance and Innovation Unit (SUI) is a new unit in the Directorate of Infection. The Central Wound Hub will scale and sustain our award-winning digital surveillance programme. The Hub team will work with the surgical site infection (SSI) team, a dynamic, friendly team covering specialisms across the trust.
Clinical
· To oversee the daily running of the CDWH for the Rossini Platform study to ensure patients are reviewed and responded to in a timely manner on the digital remote wound platform (Isla).
· To support and line management of junior colleagues for optimal review patient submission on Isla for a seven-day and out-of-hours service.
· To provide timely review of patient submissions to the Central Digital Wound Hub, ensuring appropriate reassurance, advice and/or referral as required.
· To ensure early identification of patients who require MDT escalation for infection or delayed wound healing, and action this or support junior staff in doing so.
· To ensure information on clinically relevant information on community treatment is recorded for visibility and optimal care delivery.
· To collect and/or oversee data on clinical outcomes.
· To identify areas for improvement in relation to the Central Digital Wound Hub and work with the Trust Lead for SSI to deliver an improvement plan, using appropriate methodology.
· To participate in research studies as required.
· To work with the CTU and Isla providing specialist input in SSIS data collection, handling ensuring correct completion of surveillance forms or electronic surveillance data platforms
· To undertake audit in relation to SSIS and to ensure audit documentation is completed correctly.
· To work autonomously managing a case load of defined group of patients ensuring close surveillance is undertaken to identify Surgical Site Infections (SSI) and determine incidence and prevalence ofinfections
This advert closes on Friday 2 May 2025