The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals define a nurse specialist as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of the role is to provide guidance and support based on advanced level of knowledge to patients, carers and health professionals concerning a specific condition.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the quickly expanding TAVI team at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals. As a TAVI Specialist Nurse, you will be responsible for ensuring the patient’s needs are met by delivering high quality, evidence-based care throughout the whole TAVI pathway. This role will give you the opportunity to practice autonomously and as part of a specialist TAVI team, to empower patients and make a difference. It requires excellent leadership and visibility and offers a great balance of clinical practice and coordinating. You will be a single point of contact for patients and referring centres from referral to discharge and follow up, helping to streamline the TAVI pathway and manage the overall service. You will have the opportunity to work as part of a large MDT over a multitude of wards and clinical areas and be an integral part of the TAVI service and training and education. You will directly report to the Band 7 TAVI Nurse Specialist.
• Interview Date: Thursday 20 February 2025
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
The TAVI Nurse Specialist will act as a point of contact pre, intra and post TAVI procedure to ensure smooth running of the TAVI service.
They will be expected to:
· Work as part of a team, alongside our Band 7 TAVI Nurse Specialist to deliver expert specialist care for the management of aortic stenosis
· Maintain high standards of nursing care, adhering to trust policies and national frameworks
· Act as a patient advocate, and ensure optimal patient management, demonstrating a sound knowledge of aortic stenosis
· Assist with MDT presentations and action outcomes promptly
· Care for patients in an in-patient and out-patient setting, showing good co-ordination and time management skills
· Display good leadership skills, including driving change and adaptability
· Recognise deterioration and be able to act accordingly
· Help co-ordinate safe admissions and discharges of patients coming in for TAVI procedure
· Provide clinical and educational support to ward teams and patients and their families
· Organise investigations prior to and post TAVI
· Data collection and input
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle HospitalsandNewcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse specialist as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of role is to provide guidance and support based on advanced level knowledge to patients, carers and health professionals concerning a specific disease/condition.
• Within the sphere of specialist practice:
o Is working towards advanced knowledge and skills within specialist sphere of practice.
o Contributes to the facilitation of the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients.
o Support the development of nursing practice within the specialist field and contribute to the body of nursing knowledge.
o Contributes to training and education within specialist area.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jan 2025
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