Job summary

• An excellent opportunity has arisen at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to join our Hand Unit as a Hands Nurse Practitioner (NP).
• You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team and other Trust staff to deliver "outstanding care, every time" to our patients.
• St George's Healthcare NHS Trust is the regional specialist care provider for South West London, Surrey and beyond.
• The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services. With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.
• Co-located with St George's, University of London and with both organizations now in a formal strategic alliance with King's Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of clinical care in the ongoing management of adult patients with hand injuries.
• To contribute to the development of the hand service at St Georges', including recruitment and project implementation.
• To manage own caseload of patients working closely with administration, nursing staff, the hand therapists, hand consultants and other members of their teams to ensure appropriate patient management.
• Provide expert clinical opinion of hand injuries to junior staff.
• To practice excellent clinical skills extended beyond the scope of nursing, provide hand assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge of appropriate patients.
• To contribute and implement to the development of hand trauma care pathways for patients in the Trust, referring units and community services.
• To deputise for the ANP in the management of the hand unit and ensure that professional and clinical nursing standards are maintained.
• To contribute to the education and training of healthcare professionals, in the management of hand conditions.
• To provide support and advice to clinical staff within and outside the organisation.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.