University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Are you an experienced nurse with a passion for delivering excellent high quality care? If so, the PreAMS has an exciting opportunity to enhance and develop your nursing career.
PreAMS is an innovative service which plays a vital role in optimising patients prior to surgery. We are looking for dynamic and forward-thinking individuals with a surgical background to provide education and clinical leadership within our team. The ideal candidate will have proven health assessment skills and ideally be an independent non-medical prescriber or working towards this qualification.
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of high complexity clinics and acting as a clinical resource for members of the wider PreAMS team. A list of main tasks and duties are outlined below but are not exhaustive due to the evolving nature of this unique role and service.
We currently provide a 7-day service across both sites and there is opportunity for flexible working.
Main duties of the job
* To work as an autonomous senior clinical Nurse Practitioner within a Nurse-Led Service across both Royal Stoke and County sites.
* Managing their own patient caseload daily and overseeing the caseloads of junior colleagues as requested. The Practitioner has personal responsibility for undertaking a nursing assessment of patients prior to admission for elective surgery, and for arranging care provision for the patient on admission to hospital and commencement of discharge planning.
* To provide the patients and their carer(s) information regarding their surgery and anaesthesia. Ensuring every patient is fully informed about their proposed procedure and the interventions that will need to be undertaken.
* To assess adult patients' fitness for anaesthesia prior to elective surgery, by undertaking the clerking, medical and anaesthetic history of a patient and undertaking a honed physical examination to ensure appropriate investigations are carried out and prescribing medications as guided by agreed protocols. This includes the referring of patients for relevant investigations, following up those results and acting upon them to determine suitability for surgery in liaison with multidisciplinary colleagues.
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM creates and encourages a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return, we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients, and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, we know that investing in, supporting, and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Job responsibilities
* To work as an autonomous senior clinical Nurse Practitioner within a Nurse-Led Service.
* Managing their own patient caseload daily and overseeing the caseloads of junior colleagues as requested. The Practitioner has personal responsibility for undertaking a nursing assessment of patients prior to admission for elective surgery, and for arranging care provision for the patient on admission to hospital and commencement of discharge planning.
* To provide the patients and their carer(s) information regarding their surgery and anaesthesia. Ensuring every patient is fully informed about their proposed procedure and the interventions that will need to be undertaken.
* To assess adult patients' fitness for anaesthesia prior to elective surgery, by undertaking the clerking, medical and anaesthetic history of a patient and undertaking a honed physical examination to ensure appropriate investigations are carried out and prescribing medications as guided by agreed protocols. This includes the referring of patients for relevant investigations, following up those results and acting upon them to determine suitability for surgery in liaison with multidisciplinary colleagues.
* Acting as a clinical resource to the nursing workforce within the service. Setting standards and seeking out opportunities for service improvement.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NMC registration
* Teaching qualification
* Health assessment qualification
* Non-medical prescriber
* ALS
* Clinical diagnostics course
Experience
* 5 years post-registration and 3 years preoperative experience
* Previous NP experience
Skills
* Evidence of formal/informal teaching to groups
* Clinical reasoning and problem-solving
* Formal leadership/management training
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.
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