Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist, to join the immunology and allergy service for 12 months to cover maternity leave.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated band 6 Nurse - previous experience in the specialty preferred but not essential as we will provide appropriate specialist training. This post would be suitable as a secondment for someone wishing to gain experience in the specialty of immunology and allergy as well.

The Clinical Immunology and Allergy Service provides specialist immunology and allergy care for Frimley Health and further afield. The team is based at Frimley Park Hospital delivering outpatient and day case care.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver nurse-led services and provide nursing support within the specialty of immunodeficiency and allergy
• Contribute to the further development of immunodeficiency and allergy services in the Trust
• Must be accountable for their own professional actions, not directly supervised
• Act as highly specialist resource of knowledge providing relevant education and training to patients, other staff and learners linking in with the service
• Undertake clinical audit and research within the specialty
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

To deliver all nursing aspects of the immunodeficiency service together with the other members of the specialist nursing team. This includes:

• Provision of the home therapy programme for immunodeficiency patients
• Training patients to self administer intravenous and subcutaneous immunoglobulin, and other immunological medications
• To be a point of contact for immunodeficiency patients for assessment, provision of general advice and support
• Maintenance of a database of immunodeficiency patients (as part of the requirement for service accreditation
• To provide support for nurses on the infusion units administering therapy to immunodeficiency patient
• To supervise other nurses performing immunological therapy when necessar
• To deliver all nursing aspects of the allergy service together with the other members of the specialist nursing team.
• To deliver and support nursing aspects of the specialist allergy service (including but not limited to drug allergy testing, drug and food challenge, allergen immunotherapy, skin prick testing, training for home self-administration of biologic therapies
• To work with the rest of the team to achieve IQAS accreditation for the unit
• Continue to update own knowledge regarding immunodeficiency and allergy
• To provide the nurse-led home therapy service for immunodeficiency patients together with the Band 7 CN
• Be aware of the Trust’s complaints procedure and able to apply it as needed
  
  

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current NMC registration
• First degree in nursing or an equivalent portfolio of evidence
• Intravenous accreditation
• Significant post-registration experience
• Evidence of proactive involvement in the mentorship and development of nurses and nursing practice
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Significant experience within the specialty (or within a specialty that provides appropriate transferable skills) at a senior level
• Health assessment qualification
• Non-medical prescribing course
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills and able to communicate complex and sensitive information
• Able to work independently as well as in a multidisciplinary team
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Evidence of involvement in policy and practice change
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of leadership development
• Report writing
• Project management
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of running nurse-led clinics
• Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care, protocols and clinical audit
• Proven venepuncture and cannulation skills
• Training and education of nurses and other health care professionals
• Analytical and assessment skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in allergy and immunodeficiency at Band 6 or above
• Previous experience of working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Previous involvement in clinical trials
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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