Job overview

• To provide excellent nursing care, utilising skills and competencies to paediatric trauma and orthopaedics patients.
• Support provision of a seamless patient pathway, from pre-operative assessment to surgery (if required). 
• Oversee, run and review outpatient services, ensuring that the impatient ward is supported.
• Communicate with professionals in the outreach service and different disciplines in the hospital.
• The CNS will work effectively as an autonomous practitioner and as a core member of the multi-disciplinary team within the paediatric trauma and orthopaedic service to provide the highest possible standards of care for patients with a range of conditions.
• Using the views of patients and carers, the CNS will work under the direction of the Matron for Surgery and the paediatric trauma and orthopaedic consultants to improve the care of patients, provide specialist help advice and support to their families and carers and to act as advocate by providing information which leads to informing patient and parent choice.

Main duties of the job

• Coordinate the paediatric major trauma patient pathway from ED through to discharge and oversee the development and implementation of standards and protocols to underpin this.
• Effectively manage a caseload of patients/clients.
• Support Consultant and Nurse Led Clinics. 
• Liaise across the wider South West London and Surrey network, facilitating support for patients remaining local in the network’s hospitals and a nurse led repatriation service for trauma/T&O patients.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). 

 After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.