Specialist Nurse (ICVD)

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases team is recruiting a specialist nurse on a 12-month fixed-term contract, with potential band 7 at year end. You will coordinate clinics, manage a paediatric caseload with home and community support alongside cardiologists and geneticists.

Experienced band 6 nurses are encouraged to apply. You will develop clinical expertise, teach ward staff, contribute to audits, and maintain high standards of confidential family-centred care

Qualifications

• Relevant honours degree, or currently working towards one.
• Assessing and mentoring qualification.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development in the clinical speciality.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and oversee clinics
• Manage a caseload of children and young people with inherited cardiovascular conditions, including support at home, in the community and during admissions
• Collate detailed family health histories through consultation with families and liaison with external services
• Provide excellent, evidence-based nursing care for children and their families
• Assess each child and plan, deliver and evaluate their care with the family, documenting it accurately
• Support effective communication across the multidisciplinary team, other hospital departments, relatives and visitors
• Ensure care meets agreed Trust standards and inform seniors when the standard cannot be reached
• Teach and train ward nursing staff through formal and informal teaching
• Take part in audit of the clinical learning environment
• Maintain confidentiality around each child's admission and treatment
• Develop towards becoming a clinical expert in the specialty
• Support whole families through screening, diagnosis and ongoing care

Skills

Cardiac nursing

Care coordination

Clinical communication

Teaching & training

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Honours degree

Assessing & mentoring qualification

Ongoing professional development

Job description

The Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases team at Great Ormond Street Hospital is recruiting a specialist nurse on a one-year fixed-term contract, with a possible step up to band 7 at the year's end. The team cares for children and young people with inherited cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias and aortopathies, and screens those at high risk through family history. Most work is clinic-based, with home, community and inpatient support alongside cardiologists and geneticists. Experienced band 6 cardiac nurses are especially encouraged to apply.

What the job involves

• Co-ordinate and oversee clinics
• Manage a caseload of children and young people with inherited cardiovascular conditions, including support at home, in the community and during admissions
• Collate detailed family health histories through consultation with families and liaison with external services
• Provide excellent, evidence-based nursing care for children and their families
• Assess each child and plan, deliver and evaluate their care with the family, documenting it accurately
• Support effective communication across the multidisciplinary team, other hospital departments, relatives and visitors
• Ensure care meets agreed Trust standards and inform seniors when the standard cannot be reached
• Teach and train ward nursing staff through formal and informal teaching
• Take part in audit of the clinical learning environment
• Maintain confidentiality around each child's admission and treatment
• Develop towards becoming a clinical expert in the specialty
• Support whole families through screening, diagnosis and ongoing care

Qualifications

• Relevant honours degree, or currently working towards one
• Assessing and mentoring qualification
• Evidence of ongoing professional development in the clinical speciality

Registration & licences

• NMC registration as a Registered Nurse (Child), or Adult with significant relevant speciality experience

Experience

• Demonstrable knowledge of inherited cardiovascular disease
• Experience of co-ordinating and managing patient care
• Understanding of professional and current issues in nursing
• Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent clinical skills, including specialist cardiac skills for the department
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Effective teaching and training skills
• Ability to problem solve and initiate change
• Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries
• Ability to delegate and prioritise

Other

• Commitment to GOSH culture and values: collaboration, respect and curiosity

Nice to have

• Leadership or management training
• Previous experience in a cardiology or CNS role
• Teaching, supervision and managerial experience
• Previous experience of research and audit
• Previous experience of change management and problem solving
• Experience of handling clinical incidents and complaints
• Effective managerial, leadership and organisational skills
• Ability to motivate and develop a team of staff