Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatric Allergy

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experience Paediatric Nurse to join our allergy team at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. We are expanding our nurse led service to deliver further treatment and therapies to our patients.

Our Children’s Allergy service leads the way in the care of children and families living with atopic disease and we are one of the largest children’s allergy services in Europe.

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic individual with excellent communication skills to join our friendly team.

Closing: 17/07/2023

Interview: 27/07/2023

The successful candidate will work in the outpatient and day-unit setting to provide holistic care to children with a broad spectrum of allergic disease including food, drug and venom allergy and allergic rhinitis

They will be supported by the team to develop and progress their allergy knowledge and skills. Alongside specialist learning there will be opportunities to contribute to governance by monitoring the quality of nurse led care, providing line management to junior members of the nursing team, contributing to guideline development and quality improvement projects.

Evelina London provides care for children and young people from across south London and south east England and provides a comprehensive range of hospital services, caring for patients from before birth, through childhood and on to adult services.

As a clinical nurse specialist you will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team working together to deliver this specialist service. You will be responsible for developing and working within evidence-based specialist pathways of care, guidelines, protocols and patient group directives to support patients and their families to improve care delivery.

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.

Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical and Patient Care

• Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst

working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering specialised
individualised and personalised direct patient care

• Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
• Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication

including transfusion of blood and blood products

• Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the

speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same.

• Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards withinthe NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
• Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
• Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
• To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the

planning delivery and evaluation of individualised specialist care.

• Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustainand improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.
• Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced specialist clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing

procedures to area.

• To be responsible, for maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and other staff within the clinical environment.
• Ensure that sensitive patient records are stored appropriately.

Ensures the cultural and spiritual needs of patients are recognised and accommodated within resources available.

• Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions

relating to their treatment and management.

• Participate in case conferences in relation to the management of patients, ensuring the coordination of ongoing care.
• Ensure staff take precautions to minimise the risk of cross infection in

relation to the safe disposal of body fluids (including blood).

• A key member of the multidisciplinary team in supporting patients and their carers during the delivery of bad news such as caring for the terminally ill patients and the event of death.
• Assess educational and information needs for patients and families, and devise plans to ensure need are met.
• To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment and management.
• Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of thespecialist service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinicalstandards
• Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through toassessment, diagnosis, treatment and review.
• for more detailed responsibilities please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached*