Job summary
We
have an exciting opportunity for a secondment role to fill maternity leave
cover within our Childrens IBD Specialist nursing service. Working closely
with families, consultants, local and regional services, and community
partners to provide high quality patient care. Come and join our specialist nurse team if
you are self-motivated with a high level of inter-personal and multi-tasking
skills.
The
post holder will be responsible for managing and delivering care and support
to a caseload of children aged 0-18 years who have IBD. The role includes
teaching and supporting families to care for their children who require complex
medications. As well as participating
in MDT clinics alongside the consultant gastroenterologist and specialist
dietitian, the post holder will support the teams development and
improvement of practice and guidelines.
Excellent
organisational and communication skills are key elements for this position
together with a genuine compassion and commitment to care for children and
families who have a chronic illness.
A
willingness to undertake on the job training and experience of teaching/audit
and research is desirable. The nutrition, gastroenterology and surgical team
will provide support and training.
Main duties of the job
The
post holder will support children and families with Inflammatory Bowel
Disease. Working alongside other IBD clinical nurse specialists and the
wider MDT to provide telephone and face to face support and advice. This
involves managing your own case load, providing nurse led telephone clinics,
face to face clinics, supporting children and their families through a new
diagnosis, on-going treatment, flare up of symptoms plus more.
In
order to provide a high level of ongoing care the post holder will attend
regular meetings across a variety of MDTs to ensure their patients receive
the appropriate care at the right time. It will be the post holders
responsibility to manage their case load and to feedback any outcomes from
meetings to the child and family.
There
will be opportunity for prescribing should the post holder hold an
independent non-medical prescribing registration.
About us
The
post holder will work closely with the IBD CNS team and will work alongside
the gastroenterologists, specialist dietitians, MDT coordinator and
surgeons.
The
IBD CNS team sit within the Childrens Nutrition and IBD CNS service and will
work alongside the nutrition nurses.
Support
will be provided by the CNS Team Leader, which includes preceptorship period,
regular 1:1 meetings, team meetings, and appraisal for the upcoming year
There
are weekly MDT teaching sessions which aid the growth and development of the
team which in turn aids the development of the services the team provide.
A
background in the systems we use at LTHT would be advantageous however
support and induction will be provided.
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
JOB
PURPOSE/SUMMARY
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Children)
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification or equivalent of teaching and assessment
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Degree Level Education or evidence of working towards
- Nurse Prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Provide high quality care as an expert practitioner
- Participates in the setting, monitoring and improvement of standards and quality of patient care
- Assess, plan and implement and evaluate care and treatments using specialist clinical knowledge and clinical skills
- Organises own clinical workload
Desirable
- Make clinical assessments and treatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols
- Supervise clinical staff to promote the delivery of excellent clinical standards
Skills & Behaviours
Essential
- Promote and maintain positive working relationships between all staff, internal and external to the Trust involved in the care of patients
Desirable
- Support patients and their families, communicating sensitive condition related information, ensuring they receive required information to enable them to participate in their care delivery
- Deliver complex information to patients and staff
Other criteria
Essential
- Act in accordance with the relevant professional code i.e. NMC
- Fulfil the requirements as directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration
- Raise concerns with regards to risk, dancer, malpractice or wrong doing by following the LTHT Whistleblowing policy and supporting processes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
Leeds General Infirmary
Great George Street
Leeds
LS1 3EX