Job Description
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Name: Sarah Georgiades
Position: Nurse Specialist - Team Manager
Email: sarah.georgiades@nhs.net
Please Note: All salaries listed reflect the pay for full time roles. Any part time roles will be pro rata.
Job Summary
The children’s LTV team provide care and support to children and their families requiring non-invasive (NIV) and invasive (LTV) ventilation, from set up, through discharge and into the community, supporting ongoing care closer to home.
A large part of the Band 7 role is to independently initiate, stabilise and titrate ventilation within the children’s wards, Nurse led clinics, or when providing outreach support at home or in local Hospitals and Hospices across the region. This involves; interpretation of sleep studies and remote monitoring, making recommendations for treatment alterations then reviewing the effectiveness of any changes; step up care recommendations when acutely unwell and treatment alterations both at home and in DGHs; weaning plans for LTV patients; and close working relationships with the wider MDT e.g. ENT, Neuromuscular and PICU services.
Why you should join our Team
Leeds Children's Hospital is one of the largest Children's Hospitals in the country.
Leeds Children's Hospital has state of the art treatments, facilities and a comprehensive development programme for Nurses
What you will bring to the role
The CNS outreach team provide follow up support, training and outreach to community based children on LTV and their support systems; continuing care teams / schools / hospices; including planning for transition to adult services. Communication with families can involve such things as helping organise planned admissions for procedures, troubleshooting any issues that arise with equipment or care requirements, or how to go on holiday, home or abroad.
Strategically the CNS team feed into the Yorkshire and Humber LTV ODN to ensure the provision of quality evidence based practice and support satellite services regionally to ensure care closer to home is provided whenever possible.
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our Trust values
The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.
We are….
Responsible
Open and Honest
One Team
Kind
Our Trust priorities
Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
Our priorities:
People
Improvement and Innovation
Partnerships
Outcomes
Sponsorship Eligibility
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
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