Non-medical Consultant - Preston, United Kingdom - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Preston, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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"A once in every Preston Guild opportunity". Due to the current post holder moving to a new challenge after 20 years in this post, we are seeking someone who would relish the opportunity of this rare post. This post if one of only three in the country, and therefore an opportunity not to be missed.

Working alongside the Non - medical consultant /Head of Speech and Language Therapy, and the Head of Dietetics, you will form part of leadership triumvirate to the Integrated Nutrition and Communication Service.

You will provide clinical leadership within the Trust, and across the LSC to improve the quality of the service provided to patients who require nutrition support.

Your contribution to the development of the service at both operational and strategic level will focus and streamline the provision of service for often-complex groups of patients in order to provide a seamless high quality service.

You will have a highly visible clinical profile, providing both advisory and clinical input into patient care, spending a minimum of 50% of time in clinical practice.

You will have clinical responsible for a patient group within nutrition nursing services and work collaboratively and in partnership with the Trust Management Board, Divisional Directors, Clinical Leads and LSC to ensure appropriate development, configuration and funding of INCS nursing services, actively seeking funding.

As the Non Medical Consultant, you will be an expert practitioner leading nutrition support and will be responsible for the management of patients working closely with the other members of the multi-professional teams across both sectors in order to provide a seamless service for patients.

This will require you to work autonomously and exercise a high level of clinical expertise and will also need to possess expertise in clinical risk management, examination and diagnostic techniques, intervention and treatment strategies, change management and the provision of staff support and training across organisational and professional boundaries.

The role will involve providing education and high-level advice to multi-disciplinary professionals and will help to develop a programme of education and research within this area.

You will be expected to take a lead in developing and implementing protocols and services for the management of patients and implement evaluations to test the efficacy of such protocols and service developments.

The role also involves professional responsibility for the leadership of all three nursing services within INCS - namely nutrition nursing, CVAT and TACT.

You will work with the three Heads of Service to support and develop the services to provide measurable high quality for patients and families.

Working at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is a truly great place to work.

We have regional specialties, are a trauma centre, have a research centre, and have a well established training and education team.

You will be supported by colleagues across this two site hospital to continue to develop services for patients and families.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

There are opportunities for you to further your education, to be involved in leading research studies, and be part of a team that looks after each other.

The organisation is progressive in its workforce, and is committed to advanced and consultant level practice.

It has a cohort of over 100 Advanced Clinical Practitioners and almost twenty non medical consultants from a variety backgrounds.

We are close to major cities across the North west, as well as the wonderful Lake District.

We have also just announced a new build of our hospital with links across the system which is due to start, and is something exciting to be part of.

Within your role, you will provide leadership, guidance and exercise judgement in making challenging patient centred decisions within current best practice guidance, relevant legal frameworks and with clear understanding of the relevant professional and applied ethical frameworks.

You will autonomously act and develop recognition for their expertise in the field of nutrition nursing having developed specialist clinical knowledge.

Ensure patient / client centred care and family and carer collaboration and where appropriate promote maintenance of health, wellbeing and independence.

Manage a defined caseload that will focus on patient presentations: Receive referrals, assess, order, interpret and act upon investigative tests, consider differential diagnosis, evaluate, treat, plan, refer and discharge patients within the Trust.