Clinical Nurse Practitioner

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Nurse to lead identification, assessment and delivery of advanced discharge and home-based care through the GSTT@Home multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will spend >50% of time direct patient contact in the community, providing acute care and expert support for ambulatory conditions to avoid hospital admission.

The role involves rotation through all Band 7 duties within @home, contributing to clinical practice development,

Job description

In partnership with members of the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service, ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. The focus of the role is to lead the identification and clinical assessment of patients who will benefit from advanced discharge or admission avoidance with care provided, in their own home, by the Guy's and St Thomas' @Home multi-disciplinary team.

The post holder be expected to spend more than 50% of their time seeing patients and will provide Specialist Nursing Support for the GSTT@HOME service providing acute care for patients within a Community setting by providing assessments and care for patients with ambulatory care sensitive conditions who would otherwise be admitted to acute hospital care. The post holder will demonstrate a high level of expertise with regard to advanced physical assessment in this field providing advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients.

The post holder will accept referrals from consultants, GPs and other referrers while promoting the GSTT@Home service. The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, as well as policies, protocols, guidelines and service developments., This role involves, managing patient assessments and care within the speciality whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care. You will be expected to promote and deliver high standards of care at all times, which utilises research-based evidence, and is audited and improved accordingly.

This position includes a rotation through all Band 7 roles within @home service, in addition to direct patient contact, you will be expected to complete the UPA triage role, NRSW lead nurse, Remote monitoring clinician and duty clinician role.

You will be expected to act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines. To be pivotal in encouraging and managing appropriate referrals, attending ward rounds, MDT and other meetings. Ensuring that patients receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their social circumstances, customs, religious beliefs and doctrines. Supporting and enabling patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management.

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.