We hope to be welcoming you to the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals team soon; we've shown you exactly why we're 'a great place to work', now it's time to see for yourself! Have a look at our current vacancies down below and make the first step to starting a fantastic new career.
Site: Royal Preston Lancashire Teaching Hospital
Town: Fulwood, Preston
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/12/2024 23:59
Job overview
Are you dynamic and forward thinking? Are you currently working as a senior nurse and looking for further development in your career and love working in Urology?
Then we would like you to come and work with a positive and collaborative team in Urology!
If you have a background in urology and general surgery and are wanting to build upon this, if you feel that you have the drive and determination to help transform and develop the service, then the ideal job opportunity has arisen.
The Urology Specialist Nurse team are looking to recruit a caring, compassionate and forward-thinking nurse for the band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Benign Urology.
This means you will be working within an experienced, welcoming, patient-focused, inclusive team who will support you into this role.
Leadership skills will be required to provide direction, uphold, and elevate care standards ensuring our benign service runs to the highest standards. Training will be offered to the successful candidate, as eventually they will be expected to work autonomously, however a background interest and knowledge in Urology is essential.
This is an exciting role where you can shape excellent care within the urology service by working closely and alongside consultant clinics, with referrals for patients from Urology, Oncology and ED.
Main duties of the job
The main roles of the job will be working with patients who have benign urology conditions. The successful candidate will be supported to develop competence and skill in undertaking trial without catheters, difficult catheterisations, flow rates, urodynamic studies, instillations as well as many more.
As a senior nurse you will work as a role model nurturing professional development for yourself and your colleagues at LTHTR. You will also be working closely with community teams such as the continence service and the district nurses to meticulously plan and provide excellent evidence-based patient care which align to our trust values and those of the nursing and midwifery professional framework.
Within your role, you will support in providing expert advice related to specific conditions or treatment pathways whilst focusing on improving patient care and service development. You'll assess patients holistically, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based care.
You will provide specialist advice to patient families and carers and the wider multidisciplinary team and carry out specialist nursing procedures in relation to benign urological patient.
Working for our organisation
You will be supported within a wider Urology Specialist nurse team, and line managed by a Urology Cancer Specialist nurse. This role works across Preston and Chorley hospital sites.
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the details within the job description and person specification for the details of the role of a Urology Benign specialist nurse:
* Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of nursing care for benign Urology patients.
* Planning and undertaking Urological procedures as outlined in the job description and supported by Clinicians and Senior CNS teams as required.
* To work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the cohesive management of benign Urology patients.
* To contribute to the development of the workforce through delivering education and training.
* To be involved and contribute to service development within the team.
* To participate in research activity and clinical audits in own specialist area.
* Supervises and delivers a range of clinical and core nursing skills and interventions to meet physiological and psychosocial needs.
Person specification
Knowledge & Experience
* Able to perform clinical duties commensurate to that of the role.
* Ability to implement changes within nursing practice.
* Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice.
* Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures.
* Knowledge of ethical issues.
* Evidence of clinical competence in area of speciality.
* Evidence of working at a senior nursing level within area of speciality.
* Knowledge of change processes.
* Knowledge of the PDPR Process.
* Experience in managing complex patients.
* Ability to undertake senior Urological nursing interventions.
* Project management.
Qualifications & Education
* Appropriate NMC Registration.
* Post Registration Qualifications relevant to the role.
* MSc Degree.
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application.
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