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Clinical Nurse Specialist for Autism
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-NM11577
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sunshine House
Town
London
Salary
£51,488 - £57,802 p.a. inclusive of HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/05/2024 23:59
Interview date
10/06/2024

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Clinical Nurse Specialist in Autism

NHS AfC: Band 7

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are looking to appoint a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Autism to join Evelina London Community Children’s Services to work with the integrated Community Paediatrics services in Lambeth and Southwark.   

The post holder will be based at the Mary Sheridan centre in Lambeth and Sunshine House, Southwark. The post holder will deliver services across both Mary Sheridan Centre, Lambeth and Sunshine House, Southwark.  Part time or job share applicants are welcome to apply.   

Closing date: 24/05/2024

Interview date: 10/06/2024

Main duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to ADOS and ADI-R  assessments with children in the autism and related disorders  clinic. 

Work with multiprofessional colleagues to develop a range of workshops for parents and children in relation to ASD. 

Undertake clinical work with individuals and groups providing advice , resources and strategies as appropriate using specialist skills and autism specific approaches were required.  

Working for our organisation

Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy’s and St Thomas’. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 To work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care 

   Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines. 

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current NMC registration
  • Registered RN1 or RN child or Mental Health Nurse ,HV SCPHN
  • Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented specialist training , experience and short courses to masters level equivalent
  • Child Protection Level 3
Desirable criteria
  • ADOS and or ADI-R trained

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care.
  • Experience in the assessment and diagnosis of autism
  • Experience of working with children with ASD and/or complex needs/learning disability.
  • Experience of undertaking standardised formal assessments.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilties

Essential criteria
  • Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty.
  • Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
  • Experience of teaching . delivering training and or supervision
  • Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of nursing
  • Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal & communication skills including the ability to use IT to good effect.
  • Experience of working with children and families whose first language is not English
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of contributing to research projects

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lesa Sullivan
Job title
Business Co-ordinator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0203 989 0507
Additional information

Anyone wanting further information please contact Dr Jess Turnbull  via

[email protected] 

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