Nurse Hysteroscopist / Gynaecology Nurse Specialist

To perform outpatient hysteroscopy and follow up care to the patients. To run clinics and perform clinical examination and assessment. To work collaboratively with the management and cancer pathway team in providing patient care and appointments within waiting time targets. To understand the gynaecological cancer pathway and run post menopausal bleeding clinics for new patients., To provide advice, guidance and support to own and other professions to enable best practice in care and treatment within area of expertise. To ensure staff are trained and signed off competent to assist in hysteroscopy.
To work collaboratively with colleagues, patients and families to seek their views and to develop and improve practice and the service.
To continually evaluate and develop own role and competencies to meet the evolving needs of patients and the service.
To develop networks and collaborative working across professional and organizational boundaries to develop, integrate and coordinate care.
To participate and contribute to National objectives and initiatives including cancer guidelines and faster cancer diagnosis.
Improving Quality and Development Practice
To develop valid and reliable methods to continually evaluate and audit own practice and service outcomes, identifying, interpreting and acting on audit outcomes. To ensure allocated time in job plan for audit and quality.
To maintain records of activity including clinical coding, maintain appropriate documentation and participate in audit of documentation, clinical activity and outcomes.
To use and develop information systems and clinical assessment to support decision making and improve care.
To use a reflective and questioning approach to practice, identifying potential opportunities for clinical or service changes and participation in quality improvement.
To maintain awareness and application of relevant research and evidence based practice relating to area of clinical expertise and profession practice.
To identify and responds to gaps in evidence and/or practice knowledge, and to contribute/lead in research / audit/ practice development.
To facilitate and enable change at individual and team levels to improve practice and health.
To continually assess, monitor and act on risks in own and others' practice through risk assessment. To attend Gynaecology Governance meetings and be aware of risks across gynaecology. To contribute to investigations as necessary.
To ensure the appropriate and effective use of resources to ensure both cost effectiveness and quality.
To participate in business and service development including activity and income generation.
Developing Self and Others
To participate in review of own practice with colleagues from own and other professions thorough case review and clinical supervision.
To develop and provide patient education and information which is appropriate and responsive to individual needs and level of development.
To participate or lead on the development of evidence based protocols, standards, policies and clinical guidelines.
To evaluate knowledge and practice, identifying learning opportunities and continuing development through appraisal and personal development planning.
To maintain a personal portfolio illustrating evidence of competence and continuing development. Comply with NMC revalidation requirements.
To support and lead colleagues in their learning and application of theory to practice through assessment, teaching and clinical supervision.
To contribute to wider education and development programmes in external organizations.
Lead on the dissemination of knowledge through publication and presentation. Ensure that appropriately trained and competent nurses and non-registered support staff deliver effective care.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
+ Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
+ Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
+ Participate in required training and supervision.
+ Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
+ Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
+ Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
+ In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation