Job summary
Advert Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist Medical Weight Management
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time band 7 Weight Management Clinic Nurse Specialist in our Weight Management service at St George's University Hospital.
We are looking for someone who is a motivated enthusiastic about Medical weight management with excellent communication and team working skills to join our friendly Motivated team.
The post holder will provide a seamless service in the education, endocrine investigation and treatment of patients in the medical weight management services. The post holder will lead on national tier 3 service database collection locally with support from MDT team and lead for MOS.
The post holder is responsible and accountable for patients in the medical weight management pathway and work closely with Endocrine Investigation Unit for the provision of excellent care of patients within the Thomas Addison Unit.
For further information, and informal visit please contact:
Orleas Mullings
Lead Nurse Diabetes and Endocrinology
Orleas.mullings@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Dr Mimi Chen
Mimi.Chen@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
The full-time band 7 nurse will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Triaging and assessing patients face to face and virtually who have obesity and complications
- Offering diet & lifestyle education and support along with the wider multi-disciplinary team via face to face and group sessions. This will be supported by the Medical Weight management dietetic team.
- Provide endocrine investigations as part of the obesity assessment. Training will be given by the Endocrine investigation unit and working as a team closely with diabetes and endocrine CNS within our unit.
- Implementation of the medical management pathway prior to referral to Tier 4 and manage patient follow up appointments.
- To support our role as a pilot site for the National Obesity Registry via data collection and input, and lead on this new initiative with the support of lead in MOS.
- Internal and external training around obesity management
- Working with the wider Bariatric Team to facilitate and smooth transition of the patient between the Tier 3 (medical) and Tier 4 (surgical) services.
- Point of contact for our patients whilst in the Tier 3 programme to support them stay on track in their weight loss journey.
About us
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and personal specification which contains more information about the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and personal specification which contains more information about the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- oRN- 5 years post registration
- oDegree in nursing or working towards this or similar
- oRelevant post-registration qualification
Desirable
- oIndependent Nurse Prescriber
- oEvidence of working at a higher level of nursing ie. Post-grad diploma/MSc
- oPost registration Endocrine nursing certificate or working towards this
- oAn advanced practitioner either through formal qualifications and or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the areas of diabetes or endocrinology or weight management
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Participation in formal and informal teaching programmes specific to diabetes, endocrinology or weight management
- Ability to impart complex information to patients, relatives and carers, with different levels of understanding
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- oEvidence of Relevant demonstrable experience in speciality areas (diabetes or endocrine or weight management)
- oExperience of multidisciplinary team working
Desirable
- oPoster presentations at national/ international level
- Published articles
Skills
Essential
- Good oral and written communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
- Advanced clinical assessment skills or willingness to develop these
- Ability to prioritise own workload & meet daily deadlines
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Good computer skills and able to work with database entry
- Basic Motivation and counselling skills
- Strong leadership skills
Desirable
- Experience of clinical governance
- Experience in the titration of medicines
- Evidence of experience in research/audit
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions
- Able to reflect and appraise own performance
- Able to deal with distressed client's and their relatives
- Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders
- Confident
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- oRN- 5 years post registration
- oDegree in nursing or working towards this or similar
- oRelevant post-registration qualification
Desirable
- oIndependent Nurse Prescriber
- oEvidence of working at a higher level of nursing ie. Post-grad diploma/MSc
- oPost registration Endocrine nursing certificate or working towards this
- oAn advanced practitioner either through formal qualifications and or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the areas of diabetes or endocrinology or weight management
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Participation in formal and informal teaching programmes specific to diabetes, endocrinology or weight management
- Ability to impart complex information to patients, relatives and carers, with different levels of understanding
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- oEvidence of Relevant demonstrable experience in speciality areas (diabetes or endocrine or weight management)
- oExperience of multidisciplinary team working
Desirable
- oPoster presentations at national/ international level
- Published articles
Skills
Essential
- Good oral and written communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
- Advanced clinical assessment skills or willingness to develop these
- Ability to prioritise own workload & meet daily deadlines
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Good computer skills and able to work with database entry
- Basic Motivation and counselling skills
- Strong leadership skills
Desirable
- Experience of clinical governance
- Experience in the titration of medicines
- Evidence of experience in research/audit
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions
- Able to reflect and appraise own performance
- Able to deal with distressed client's and their relatives
- Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders
- Confident
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
