Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatric Endocrinology

at  Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in South East London is a large teaching hospital and is at the forefront of academic and nursing excellence. We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible and enthusiastic individual to recruit into a band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist role for Paediatric Endocrinology.
This is a well established role, caring for children with endocrine disorders in the inpatient and outpatients setting, working collaboratively with other specialities.
Your clinical caseload will include young children requiring therapy for early puberty and children on daily growth hormone injections, as well as giving regular advice and education to children and their families with thyroid, adrenal and pituitary disorders.
You will be closely involved in developing clinical protocols, international and national audit, and maintaining a Trust lead in national research studies.
Regular teaching is held at GOSH / ICH and within the South Thames Paediatric Endocrine Group, and opportunities are available to attend regular national endocrine nursing conferences, providing excellent networking opportunities, and also fully supported international endocrine conferences. Further guidance and support will be provided by the Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, and learning from the RCN Career and Competency Framework for CYP Endocrine Nurse Specialists (2019).
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To work as an autonomous clinical nurse specialist to co-ordinate and deliver expert nursing care effectively to a defined caseload of children, young people with endocrine conditions and their families across both the acute and community setting.
To lead in the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines.
To maintain clear lines of communication with primary healthcare teams in order to increase knowledge and facilitate the care of this group of children, young people and families in the community.
To act as a key resource and source of specialist support to colleagues across primary/secondary/tertiary care settings.
Particular emphasis is put at Kings on the need to ensure that all staff recognize their responsibility to deliver services in a high quality, courteous, patient focused manner maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King’s to another level
Clinical Practice
To provide and deliver a specialist nursing service for children and young people with endocrine conditions in both the hospital and community setting
To provide expert nursing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following diagnosis and through treatment
To ensure continuity of a high standard of evidence based nursing care, assessing health, health related and nursing needs of patients and their families and other carers by identifying and initiating appropriate steps for effective care. These can include:
Managing a patient caseload
Ordering diagnostic tests
Making and receiving referrals
Admitting and discharging patients for specific conditions and within agreed Trust protocols
Prescribing medicines and treatments
To accept clinical responsibility for own patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues and recommendations made ensuring clear documentation in the patient’s records
To be actively involved in in-patient care requiring endocrine input, specifically following neurosurgery, liaising with neurosurgical staff where appropriate
To participate in the paediatric endocrine out-patient clinic and assess appropriate patients.
To lead in the care of specific patients, within the nurse led clinic environment, utilising Trust policy patient proformas as appropriate. To provide nurse consultation with all newly diagnosed patients
To follow up patients as appropriate and ensure all relevant information is available to enable patients to make informed choice about treatment and management about their condition
To be a knowledgeable and visible expert practitioner within the specialty, working with ward/clinic staff to ensure the provision of high quality evidence based nursing care for children and young people, and that this is accurately communicated and documented
To co-ordinate a seamless service through the development of enhanced multi-disciplinary team (MDT) processes and communicatio

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