Job Description
- To provide specialist comprehensive geriatric services to older people undergoing surgery including direct clinical care, multidisciplinary team leadership, clinical governance, service development and evaluation.
- To work closely with the multidisciplinary team and other speciality across the Trust to reduce postoperative complications in and to promote shorter hospital length of stays for older surgical patients
- To contribute to Clinical effectiveness (audit) and Research and lead on development activities relating to the speciality
- To provide professional and specialist clinical leadership to the POPS Team ensuring that all staff is appropriately managed and are clinically and professionally developed and therefore efficient, effective, engaged and highly motivated.
- To monitor resource utilisation and expenditure and contribute to business planning and future service development
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist in a small team you are expected to be able to manage your own time to see patients on the wards and to lead Multi disciplinary meetings and Board rounds in clinical areas. In addition you will also be expected to offer advice and support to the medical teams for patients.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
As an organisation, we’ve made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of “Good” in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of “Good” that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust’s improvement journey, as we’ve stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We’ve also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.
- Will act as an expert in perioperative frailty for LGT
- Lead both locally and nationally on the perioperative agenda linking with other organisations such as the, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) and the British geriatric society (BGS)
- Provide expert advice on perioperative care, including shared decision making and mental capacity
- Be point of contact for local and external teams, individuals and services seeking perioperative advice
- Provide management for the POPS nurse and AHP (including physician associate) and organisational oversight to ensure service continuity