Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

• • To assist in the delivery of an advanced specialist nursing service for people with specialist needs
  • To provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following diagnosis and through treatment
  • To ensure continuity of a high standard of evidence based nursing care, assessing health, health related and nursing needs of patients, their families and other carers by identifying and initiating appropriate steps for effective care. This can include:
    • • Managing a patient caseload
      • Ordering diagnostic tests
      • Making and receiving referrals
      • Admitting and discharging patients for specified conditions and within agreed protocols
      • Facilitating outpatient clinics
      • Delivering the nurse-led results clinic
      • Participating in the delivery of the radiotherapy telephone follow up clinic
  • To accept responsibility for own patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues and recommendations made ensuring clear documentation in the patients records
  • To be actively involved in in-patient care, liaising with ward staff to ensure high quality nursing care
  • To attend out-patients, ensuring nurse consultation with all newly diagnosed patients
  • To follow-up patients as appropriate and ensure all relevant information is available to enable patients to make an informed choice about their treatment
  • To attend and present patients histories at the weekly MDT meetings ensuring all patients are represented
  • To feedback the MDT outcomes to the referrers with the MDT co-ordinator
  • To deliver a seamless service through the development of enhanced Multidisciplinary team (MDT) processes and communication
  • To participate in the identification and development of clinical protocols and strategies to enhance both the continuity and standard of specialist care whilst ensuring equity of access to the service
  • To participate in the annual review process of operational policies in accordance with national standards
  • To attend the quarterly service improvement meetings, participating where appropriate
  • To ensure all care is given in accordance with agreed protocols.
  • To work with key staff members to maintain nurse led pre-assessment/assessment and out patient follow-up services. Providing detailed baseline patient assessment and education and support to patients and their families
  • To regularly review those clinical notes of patients requiring imminent admission, ensuring all assessments, diagnostic investigation and test results are up-to-date and in place to ensure a smooth admission process
  • To liaise with the discharge coordinator and ward staff to ensure appropriate and timely discharge/follow-up arrangement in place for patients
  • To maintain a suitable mechanism for MDT referrals to the Clinical Nurse Specialists
  • To work with the MDT to develop, implement and evaluate integrated care pathways and systems of MDT documentation
  • To liaise with local community, social services, paramedics and voluntary organisations in order to develop existing services for clients, carers and health professional
  • To actively involve service users in providing feedback of their experience of the current service and suggestions for improvements.
  • To participate in the development of appropriate patient group directives to facilitate/enhance the discharge process
  • To participate in relevant fora at Care Group, Trust or PCG/PCT Level to represent the service perspective

Education, training and development:

• • To ensure all patients are fully informed of the risks and benefits of proposed procedures / treatments, contributing to the process of securing informed consent
  • To produce and provide all patients with relevant and accessible written information regarding their treatment in accordance with Trust standards
  • To supervise and participate in the delivery of programmes of education and training according to the identified needs of clients, carers and other involved in their care
  • To work with other clinical staff to identify knowledge gaps in relation to specialist patients and ensure staff are appropriately educated
  • To contribute to the development of nursing practice within the team. Additionally, where appropriate, to act as a practice supervisor to Trust and honorary contract employees.
  • To actively participate in educational events provided by the Trust and primary care sector.
  • To attend meetings and conferences as appropriate ensuring that you are fully conversant with current issues both within the Trust and within the specialist services locally and nationally.

Research and Development:

• • To promote and facilitate evidence based practice and clinical audit within the Trust, raising the profile and enhancing the contribution of nursing to patient care and informing business and service development plans.
  • To participate in and assist with any appropriate/relevant Trust approved research projects conducted within the department.
  • To promote nursing research and evidenced based practice relevant to the speciality

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Level 1 or Level 15 Registered Nurse
• Degree (BSc) or equivalent in a health related subject

Desirable

• Advanced clinical assessment skills or willingness to develop these

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Relevant, demonstrable experience in Neuro-oncology
• To have proven experience of service development
• Experience of running research and audit programmes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's College Hospital

Denmark Hill

London

SE5 9RS

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.kch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)