Employer: West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: West Suffolk Hospital
Town: Bury St Edmunds
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum, Salary starting point is dependent on experience
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/12/2024 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The Urology department at the West Suffolk Hospital is seeking a motivated and passionate Urology Nurse Practitioner to work as a member of our Urology nursing team, and as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder will demonstrate sound knowledge and experience in the specialist area of Urology, working with a high degree of independence and autonomy, providing care and treatment to patients utilizing advanced clinical judgment and decision making.
As the successful applicant, you will be required to take an active role in the delivery of Urology nursing care and support the best possible experience for our patients. The post holder will be expected to liaise with colleagues internal and external to the Trust.
To be successful in the role, you will need to have experience working with Urology patients undergoing diagnostic intervention within the NHS and enjoy the challenge of being part of a hardworking, highly productive team.
Main duties of the job
Assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating care as an autonomous practitioner with specialist skills. This includes:
1. Providing specialist psychological, social, and practical support that is responsive to the perceptions and needs of patients and their families.
2. Acting as the first point of contact for patients during investigation, diagnosis, and treatment for those patients referred to, and who are currently under, the care of the urology service.
3. Provision of care through screening programmes, nurse-led clinics, accepting referrals, undertaking diagnostic procedures, therapeutic procedures, physical assessments, and obtaining written consent to treatment.
4. Referring patients directly to specialists in other professions.
5. Providing expert specialist clinical advice for patients, carers, and healthcare professionals.
6. Caring for a caseload and managing complex cases, including independent patient clinics.
7. Improving and maintaining standards of care within the specialty.
8. Liaising with all appropriate members of the multi-disciplinary team and ensuring a seamless service between acute and primary care services.
9. Communicating sensitive condition-related information to patients and relatives, requiring high levels of empathy and reassurance.
10. Ensuring the provision of appropriate verbal and written patient information, thus empowering the patient to make informed decisions.
11. Maintaining knowledge, competence, and skill level through regular clinical supervision, appraisal, personal development plans, and appropriate training programmes.
12. Leading in patient education and counselling, including maintaining up-to-date literature and resources for both patients and staff.
13. Where applicable and qualified, acting as a Nurse Independent Prescriber, prescribing any drugs within clinical competencies.
Working for our organisation
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat, and support people in hospital, at home, and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit, and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We strive to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients, guided by our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety, and teamwork.
With nearly 5,000 staff from all over the world, we aim to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyone's voice counts.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description for full details.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Degree
* Teaching & mentoring qualification or equivalent
* Evidence of professional continuous development and portfolio of learning
* Non-medical prescriber
* Advanced clinical assessment skills
* Advanced communication skills or counselling qualification
* Post registration module in Specialist field of work
* Leadership or management module
Experience and knowledge
* Significant clinical experience in Urology
* Recognised as an expert in the field of practice with the ability to clinically assess
* Understanding of evidence-based practice
* Understanding of clinical governance
* Understanding of complex patient pathways and how to support patients through their complexities
* Practical experience at band 6/7
* Audit or research experience
* Experience of having worked in Urology Diagnostics / surgical environment
Skills and abilities
* Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload
* Ability to work autonomously as an independent practitioner
* Ability to lead developments in practice
* Proven ability to manage and progress own professional development
* Able to respond to change and apply themselves to development in practice
* Advanced communication skills
* Highly motivated
* Compassionate team member and practitioner
* Ability to problem solve and seek solutions
* Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and targets
* Ability to assess risks and adapt appropriately
* The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors, and colleagues according to the Trust values
* Reliable and supportive
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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