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Job Overview
Come and join our team at an exciting time of growth.
We are looking for an experienced nurse with exceptional change leader skills to join our Paediatric Allergy team to work with the consultants in developing our allergy service. You will be supported by our team of consultants, nurse leaders and allied health professionals to support local children and young people with allergies.
We are a team who are open to hearing your ideas and supporting you to take them forward. You will have experience with children with allergic conditions, providing education across a variety of settings, and making effective relationships with CYP and their families.
Main duties of the job
To work within the MDT to ensure safe and appropriate care is delivered and maintained when caring for children with an allergy.
To provide effective, clinical & operational support to the MDT and in support of general management objectives.
To provide teaching to wider members of the clinical team.
To support with allergy clinics, including skin prick testing and forming care plans, as well as oral food and drug challenges.
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
- Deliver and evaluate care and provide specialist advice to nursing staff.
- To undertake audit to evaluate care.
- To co-ordinate and maintain patient focused care.
- Take a lead role in developing nursing practice and education in area of expertise
- Manage and monitor complaints as per Trust and Directorate policy working alongside Matron.
- Liaise with and maintain good working relationships with the University and with all levels within the MDT to ensure high standards of nursing care are maintained. Keep abreast of relevant legislation and communicate change as appropriate.
- Ensure confidentiality of patient records is maintained by developing secure systems of work.
- Assist in the development of policies in relation to your clinical area.
- Ensure high standards of cleanliness are practiced by all team members to ensure infection control standards are promoted and maintained.
- To support and provide leadership to all team members when dealing with complex, difficult and traumatic situations.
- To co ordinate and act upon patient feedback
Person specification
Experience with allergies
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated experience in caring for children with allergies
Desirable criteria
- Formal training in caring for children with allergies
Experience in teaching
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated experience teaching patients
- Demonstrated experience teaching colleagues
Leadership
Essential criteria
- Has demonstrated leadership skills
Desirable criteria
- Has undertaken a foundation leadership programme such as EJ
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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