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Job overview

The post combines clinical expertise and educational/ research skills with managerial and professional responsibilities.

To work autonomously using expert clinical skills extended beyond the scope of nursing to provide hand assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge of patients

To be responsible for implementing and developing care pathways for patients with hand injuries and chronic hand conditions in the Trust, referring units and community services

To provide strong leadership and to manage the hand unit staff, ensuring that professional and clinical nursing standards are maintained and developed

To be the lead nurse for the delivery of the Hand Unit

To provide expert clinical opinion to managers which assists the strategic direction of the hand service across the whole organisation and referring region utilising the principles of clinical governance

To educate and train undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare professionals, in the management of hand conditions. To provide expert support and advice to clinical staff within and outside the organisation

To identify clinical research, audit and data collection priorities within area of expertise to drive departmental clinical development strategy, in line with the governance agenda and in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

An excellent opportunity has arisen at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to join our Hand Unit as a Lead Nurse/ Hands Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP).

The post holder will lead the Hand Unit Service/Department combining clinical expertise and educational/ research skills with managerial and professional responsibilities. You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team and other Trust staff to deliver "outstanding care, every time" to our patients.

St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust is the regional specialist care provider for South West London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services. With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organizations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.  

Applicants must flexible and be able to work independently. Must have clinical expertise (MSc in Advanced Nursing Practice or equivalent) and management experience having led a service/team before. Essential and desirable criteria outlined in the Job description attached.

Please note interviews will take place on Friday  26th April 2024.

Working for our organisation

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.