Specialist Nurse - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Do you have a special interest in women's health and early pregnancy and willing to make a difference to women care ? We are seeking a passionate, committed, and highly motivated nurse with previous experience in gynaecology to provide direct care and support to women experiencing gynaecological and early pregnancy problems, individually as well as part of an amazing team.
The Unit can be a busy and pressured area, combining a clinic with an emergency type environment, but working here is hugely rewarding.
This will be a full time post which will allow you to mix clinical nursing with telephone triage, and help you broaden your understanding in running a busy service, supporting junior staff and students, offering you the opportunity to develop your managerial skills within a friendly and caring environment, under the Trust's Values and Beliefs framework .
The post holder acts as a link nurse in the area of early pregnancy and emergency gynaecology care, and will act as a resource for this across the service.
The role will have responsibility for co-ordinating and developing the Early Pregnancy and Acute Gynaecology Unit with a focus on role development to specialist practitioner level.
Working closely with the lead consultant and the unit manager, the post holder will ensure the delivery of evidence-based care throughout the unit.
With an innovative approach to nursing the post holder will lead in developing and implementing service development projects. The role shares the responsibility to facilitate an effective communication link across directorates and within the women's directorate.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 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.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Demonstrate clinical excellence in gynaecological nursing with particular expertise in early pregnancy and emergency gynaecology.Develop skills in history taking, counselling, patient assessment, pre- assessment, taking cervical swabs and nurse patient-management.
Support the woman and her carers through her pathway of care, minor procedure management, pre-clerking and through the gynaecological episode of emergency inpatient and/or day surgery care.
Diploma or Degree in Nursing
Has achieved the minimum of a Diploma in nursing / health studies
Has achieved gynaecology nursing course qualifications or be working towards
Counselling course
Emergency Gynaecology Nursing course
Experience in gynaecology or related women's health area.
Clinical expertise in early pregnancy, acute gynaecology or an emergency setting
Can demonstrate proficiency in phlebotomy and cannulation.
Can demonstrate experience of bereavement care
Experience in taking a full gynaecology patient history
Experience of change management and quality improvement
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust