One of our private clients based in the West Midlands are looking for a Specialist Nurse with interest in Dermatology.
The community-based Dermatology service at a private client based in West Midlands are looking for a locum Dermatology nurse with Phototherapy experience to join them on a full-time or part-time basis to start as soon as possible.
Our client is one of the UK’s largest providers of community based Dermatology services that manages a wide range of dermatological conditions that would otherwise be referred to secondary care.
Clinical Responsibilities:
- Provision of clinical care and clinical administration for the management of a dermatology caseload
- Develop and sustain relationships with patients, carers and all members of the interdisciplinary team across care settings and traditional boundaries in order to maintain effective communication and exchange of information.
- Clinical encounters will involve
- Using history taking skills to establish the problem, plan of action and review of the action taken
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- Appropriate liaison with other team members/supervising clinician to resolve issues
- Following drug protocols
- Repeat prescribing
- Making onward referrals to other providers
- Scheduling follow up appointments within the service
- Responsibility for action taken and advice given
- Ensuring the required documentation is completed
- Support service audit and service improvement
- Undertake independent clinics alongside a supervising senior clinician; ensuring excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, co-ordinating, delivery and evaluation of clinics.
- Phototherapy experience is essential
- Appropriately request, interpret and inform patients regarding investigation results such as blood, urine and microbiology tests and act appropriately when anomalies are discovered. This includes potentially life-threatening abnormalities where immediate action should be taken
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of email communication, processing of word documentation, power point presentation, excel data base.
- Organise, prioritise and evaluate workload based on accepted referral criteria
- Use discretion to make decisions regarding patient care within clinical/professional guidelines and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Actively participate in all aspects of the clinical governance process.
- Take a supportive role in promoting infection control, environmental safety and risk management in order to and minimise risk to patients, self and other staff at all times.
- Undertake regular audits using research methodology in order to implement changes in practice and thereby improve patient care.
- Participate in reviewing of policies and protocols in relation to the service, including where appropriate, those which may impact on other professional groups.
- DMARD’s experience is desirable
