A Vacancy at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.
To provide care and support to patients attending our Gynaecology Outpatients Department.
This role requires you to support the Urogynaecology Specialist Nurses in their Nurse Led clinics including, Urodynamics, Trial without catheter, and Self Catheterisation teaching. This role also includes supporting the consultants with sterile-procedure clinics; including: oncology, post-menopausal bleeding, suspected cancer diagnostic clinics, hysteroscopy, colposcopy and supporting in Early Pregnancy Unit if required.
To become competent as the Assistant practitioner for the Urodynamics Test. Following ANTT and local and national Guidelines to insert catheters, promoting best practice and infection control under the supervision of the Specialist Nurse.
To become competent to provide a Trial Without Catheter service for female patients under the supervision of the Specialist Nurse. To demonstrate skills In ANTT, Bladder scanning, female catheterisation, Urinalysis, and MSU/CSU collection.
To liaise effectively with Community Nurses and Catheter Suppliers
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To assist the Specialist Nurse to coordinate the monthly formal MDT, with responsibility to liaise with the Urogynaecology Consultants/Primary care team for patients details and organise the agenda, notes collection, Teams Invitation and ensure that patient plans are documented and escalated appropriately.
· To contribute to answering and responding to patient calls on the dedicated Urogynaecology phoneline and triage clinical emergency appointments
· Record interventions, treatments and any changes in the woman's health status including adverse reactions, taking appropriate action to escalate for assistance as required.
· Be able to identify any potential risks within the environment and take appropriate action.
· Ensure own knowledge of Trust policies and procedures is current and work within the required frameworks
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There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.
For further information about this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Monday 11 Nov 2024