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    Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds Teaching Hospitals

    Leeds Teaching Hospitals
    Leeds Teaching Hospitals Leeds, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Permanent
    Description

    Job summary

    An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, proactive Childrens Nurse with a background and experience in Epilepsy to lead our Childrens Epilepsy Nursing service. The service support both secondary and tertiary epilepsy and the VNS patients.

    We are looking to recruit an individual with excellent partnership, networking and communication skills who has clinical and some operational management experience, strong leadership skills that can motivate individuals and teams to build and sustain change.

    Excellent organisational and communication skills are key elements for this position together with a genuine compassion and commitment to care for children who have epilepsy and their families.

    Main duties of the job

    The post holder will be responsible for the day to day clinical and professional leadership/ management of the Children's secondary and tertiary Epilepsy Nurse specialists to ensure safe and effective care delivery. Overseeing the effective and efficient use of skills and resources to ensure the team and the service is organised to meet the needs of the patients and their families.

    The post holder will act as a role model for the team in terms of clinical and quality standards, providing clinical leadership and support to all team members.

    The post holder will provide nursing expertise, undertaking assessment and provide education and support to patients and their parents and to other health professionals. A non-medical prescribing qualification (or willingness to obtain) is integral for the role. The post holder will be involved in, clinical audit and service development.

    About us

    The post holder will work closely with both Childrens Neurology Consultants, Secondary Epilepsy Paediatricians, Neurosurgeons and Community paediatricians to provide responsive and supportive services for children who have had a diagnosis of epilepsy.

    Support will be provided by the matron, which includes preceptorship period, regular 1:1 meetings, team meetings, and appraisal for the upcoming year.

    Come & join our team in Leeds & become part of The Leeds Way sharing our vision & values. Leeds Childrens hospital is rated as GOOD & the Trust is recognised for our staff engagement, great care & rated GOOD by the Care Quality Commission.

    Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    2. JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY

    The post holder will be practising as an independent specialist clinical practitioner providing patient-centred and evidence-based clinical care, within an agreed scope of competence and practice. The jobholder is responsible for the management of a defined caseload. The jobholder carries continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards of care.

    The jobholder will provide specialist nursing care, treatment and advice to a specific patient group and will contribute to the development of the speciality service. The jobholder will ensure cost effective use of resources. The job holder will support the development of interdisciplinary and whole service working. As a role model they will promote the sharing of good practice and delivery of high quality, effective and efficient care. The job holder will provide training and education to staff groups, patients and families/carers.

    The post holder will work in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to implement and improve the patient pathway and will be expected to develop new skills to further enhance the quality of the service delivered. Where appropriate, the role will include the day to day leadership and management.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Registered Nurse (Children's)
  • First Level Degree of equivalent demonstrable experience
  • Recognised teaching/assessing qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience of teaching and assessment
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Post registration qualification in specialty or equivalent demonstrable experience

    • Desirable

  • Master Level Degree Education or equivalent experience
  • Extended/Supplementary Prescribing

    • Other criteria

    Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal skills
  • Ability to organise and prioritise own and other's workload
  • Skills and knowledge required to lead and develop team members.
  • Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy
  • Ability to travel in between Trust premises and patient homes for posts that involve community visits.

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Significant and recent relevant experience at Band 6 or equivalent within an appropriate specialty
  • Clinical audit and standard setting
  • Experience of managing a team of staff
  • Current issues in healthcare

    • Desirable

  • Service development and/or change management

    • Skills & behaviours

    Essential

  • Compassionate and caring
  • Capable of lateral thinking
  • Motivator of self and others
  • Positive approach to change
  • Communication skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Teaching
  • Recruitment and Selection
  • IT Skills
  • Plan specialist nursing provision, including education and training
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