Hepatology Cns - Slough, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Slough, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To provide Hepatology nursing advice to patients, relatives, colleagues of all grades and disciplines.

To provide enhanced continuity and a high standard of care for all patients requiring liver services within the Trust.
The post holder will ensure the Hepatology nursing team contributes significantly to the achievement of corporate objectives and values, monitors effective governance arrangements are implemented and maintained
Support compliance with NICE/CQC guidelines where relevant to nursing practice, coordinate, and lead audit of clinical practice
Review the liver patients admitted to Wexham Park Hospital
Undertake liver outpatient clinics
Participate (after relevant training) in provision of day case abdominal paracentesis services
Establish outpatient liver disease helpline
Take a lead in improving/establishing liver disease local pathways/guidelines
Provide fibroscan clinics (after relevant training)
Keep/establish a database of local liver patients
Undertake/help in liver disease local/regional/national audits/research projects
Present relevant data in local/regional meetings
Work with the consultants and clinical team to improve the clinical care for the liver disease patient.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

The post holder alongside the Consultant team will develop a liver service at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital and assisting with the repatriation of the work to the locality.
In conjunction with the Lead clinician facilitate a continuum of care which includes relevant professionals within the Trust for the management of patients with liver disease.
The post holder will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing professional standards of care of the highest order across the whole spectrum of Hepatology services. This will involve establishing partnerships and a common purpose with various agencies and disciplines both within and outside the Trust, locally, nationally, and internationally.
Lead the Hepatology nursing service, auditing the service to ensure improved outcomes for patients are achieved.
The post holder will work with the Consultants and practice development to deliver nurse education, which meets the needs of patients with Liver Disease across the Trust.
Managing patients in Liver surveillance pathways including those waiting for Ultrasounds.