Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatric ID | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Following the promotion of our Infectious Diseases Clinical Nurse Specialist, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join a team of motivated and dynamic children's service. The successful candidate will be working in an award-winning team. The post requires continued collaboration with the acute and community paediatric leads within North Middlesex Hospital and across North Central London.

We are seeking an experienced children's nurse, with experience in acute and community, children or neonatal services practicing at band 6 level or above. The team that you will work with you is talented, motivated, and expanding with several exciting new roles concurrently advertised. We are looking for a candidate who will be visible, patient and staff focused to work within this excellent team.

This is the perfect role for an nurse who wishes to pursue a CNS role in Infectious Diseases. For internal applications this post could be considered as a secondment with your direct line manager support.

The post holder will act as a role model, providing clinical expertise and a care co-ordinator role in the care of children affected by Infectious Diseases and their families attending North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust. In addition, the post holder will provide education and consultation widely to professional colleagues at NMUH, across London, and specifically the North Central Sector network, throughout the United Kingdom and abroad. The overall aim of this post is to promote a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research, development and innovation.

To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team within the hospital, providing nursing leadership in Infectious Diseases within the Hospital and across the clinical networks.

To work closely with the in-patient ward and liaising with other clinical areas in collaboration with the other members of the team and infection control nursing teams.

To support children and their families during diagnosis and with adherence to therapy; be responsible for the co-ordination and efficient management of patient care in hospital and follow-up in the Outpatient Clinic at NMUH, ensuring appropriate liaison occurs with local services and other agencies., NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children
from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link:https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.

After several years of ever closer working, North Mid and Royal Free London are planning to come together as one organisation to enable them to go further and faster in improving services for patients and the health of the local community than they can achieve separately. The merger of North Mid into the RFL group is currently expected to take place on 1 January 2025, subject to NHS England and Secretary of State approval.