This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual that drives towards health promotion and improvement. The post holder will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure that all aspects of the Enhanced Recovery (ERAS) is optimised in the Intermediate Surgical Care Unit (ISCU) and surgical wards for all patients on the programme. This includes pre op clinics discussing ERAS with patients and prescribing the pre op medications, day of surgery checks and patient support post op ward rounds and supporting the medical staff with the outcomes, daily monitoring of the ERAS patients offering guidance, support and ensuring all outstanding requests are acted upon and reported. Discharge planning and ensuring discharge letters are correct and completed in a timely manor to prevent delays. This role continues post discharge giving the patients a link to the service for up to 10 days where they receive follow up phone calls. This is to ensure the patient is progressing and offered advice where necessary re analgesia, diet, wounds escalating when appropriate.

Main duties of the job

• Patient care (both direct and indirect)
• Act as the main support contact for ISCU
• The post holder will help develop pathways for the management of patients admitted for elective surgery using Enhanced Recovery programmes. These pathways should be reviewed regularly in line with evidence from audit to bring about any necessary changes to achieve gold standards of care
• Optimise patients prior to their surgery to enable them to be in the best condition along with managing expectations .One way of delivering this is in our Enhanced Recovery clinics that we run .Also working with other mediums that is for example via websites to manage patients expectation
• Routinely join on ward rounds to guide and help junior doctors as to the Enhanced Recovery pathway, to give expert guidance and be a patient advocate.

About us

Our teams work hard to be flexible and promote a health work/home life balance and so, agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates from our local communities.

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Relocation allowance in line with the Trust policy
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
• In-house Physiotherapy Services
• Career development and training opportunities
• Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
• Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
• Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Responsible for working with multi-disciplinary teams to support implementation and ensure the development of Enhanced Recovery pathways in the hospital
• To actively promote Enhanced Recovery Programmes and the benefits that can be achieved through implementing them.
• In collaboration with the clinical teams provide training programmes, for staff and patients in the Trust, related to Enhanced Recovery programmes.
• Be able to present at local meetings on relevant topics related to Enhanced Recovery
• To join on ward rounds with senior surgical teams, be a patient advocate, and help deliver the Enhanced Recovery elements by advising appropriately
• Seeing patients on the programme on the wards and Intermediate Surgical Care Unit (ISCU) to ensure Enhanced Recovery elements are being achieved where possible.
• Able to work autonomously and be part of a team.
• Holding one to one Enhanced Recovery Clinics as part of a one stop clinic pre op to ensure optimisation of the patient, working closely with the Stoma Specialist Nurses including stoma siting.
• Support the patient post discharge via telephone clinics, to ensure the patient is progressing, giving advice where necessary re analgesia, diet, wounds escalating when appropriate.
• Achieve the goal of delivering gold standards of care helping to reduce length of hospital stay and readmission rates
• To collect, input patient data and audit outcomes to evidence possible changes to patient surgical car

Key Responsibilities:

• Patient care (both direct and indirect)
• Act as the main support contact for ISCU
• The post holder will help develop pathways for the management of patients admitted for elective surgery using Enhanced Recovery programmes. These pathways should be reviewed regularly in line with evidence from audit to bring about any necessary changes to achieve gold standards of care
• Optimise patients prior to their surgery to enable them to be in the best condition along with managing expectations .One way of delivering this is in our Enhanced Recovery clinics that we run .Also working with other mediums that is for example via websites to manage patients expectation
• Routinely join on ward rounds to guide and help junior doctors as to the Enhanced Recovery pathway, to give expert guidance and be a patient advocate.
• Assist, devise and undertake audit programmes to measure success of programmes and report findings to wards departments and for possible publications
• Advice clinical staff in matters of Enhanced Recovery processes to allow implementation of specialised care programmes ensuring, risk factors are appropriately taken into account, and patient safety and experience is enhanced.
• In collaboration with clinical teams and relevant Clinical Nurse Specialists, help to develop patient information literature. Interact with patients and relatives and provide verbal and written information pre-operatively in connection with Enhanced Recovery programmes as required, including promoting health education

Educational Responsibilities

• The post holder will develop teaching programmes and provide ward and team based coaching for nursing staff, AHPs and other relevant professional groups to include doctors induction programmes.
• The post holder will remain professionally updated in all aspects of Enhanced recovery.
• Adapt professional knowledge to the relevant specialist field so that clinical staff, managers, are educated and supported in the implementation of any changes and new requirements for Enhanced Recovery Programmes relative to their needs

Service development

• Assist with implementing processes and organisational practices and policies with relation to Enhanced Recovery.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyse service needs with regard to Enhanced Recovery Programmes, and make judgements to provide expert hands on support to local staff involved in Enhanced Recovery Programmes.
• Support the development of a whole system approach primary to secondary care to ensure effective delivery of the programme

People management

• Proactively support the coordination of staff involved in Enhanced Recovery programmes, maintaining effective working relationships.

Communication

• Establish productive working relationships and optimal communication channels with Consultants and all grades of medical staff / Ward managers / Matron for surgery / allied professionals / patients and relatives.
• Ensure sensitive and contentious information is communicated to the correct departments and staff at the appropriate time.
• Maintain and encourage high standards of practice, challenging those who do not comply with Enhanced Recovery Programmes in an appropriate manner.
• Actively promote patients interests to ensure they have a real voice in relation to Enhanced Recovery pathway.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Professional qualification relating to Healthcare at degree level
• Proven track record of supervising and teaching health care practitioners
• Demonstrates ongoing professional development

Desirable

• Recognised post registration teaching qualification
• ACAS Masters level 7
• NMP Masters Level 7

Experience

Essential

• Experience in a clinical area at Band 5 or equivalent.

Desirable

• Experience of confidently and effectively contributing on ward rounds
• Audit and research experience within the relevant area

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of Enhanced Recovery Programmes.
• Good clinical knowledge and skills in a surgical environment
• Experience in assisting and implementing ,guidelines, protocols and pathways

Desirable

• Intermediate Surgical Care Unit (ISCU)

Employer details

Employer name

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Peterborough City Hospital

Bretton Gate

Peterborough

PE3 9GZ

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