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NET Liver Nurse Specialist

Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Location
Nottingham
Salary
£43,742 to £50,056 per annum
Closing date
15 Oct 2024
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Profession
Nurse
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Established Hepatology Specialist Nurse team at NUH.

This new post within the team will have a focus on being a key resource for patients with Neuroendocrine tumors providing support, specialist care and education during hospital admissions and following discharge.

The post holder will work closely with the medical team caring for our patients with Neuroendocrine tumors which includes investigation ordering and close contact with patients. This exciting role will bring great opportunity to provide an enhanced and holistic experience to this patient group. The post holder will participate in the advanced care planning Multi-Disciplinary team meeting, to enable patient centred advanced care planning for end of life.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with a variety of hospital and community teams, attending Multi-disciplinary Team meetings.

The post holder will also work collaboratively with the existing Hepatology nurse specialist team, and have a particular focus on managing the group of patients, alongside the existing nurse specialist.

Undertake nurse-led clinics and injection clinics for patients on treatment.

Liaise with other centres with regards to NET patients.

The post holder must be experienced in hepatobiliary nursing, and have excellent clinical knowledge in this field of nursing. They must possess excellent communication skills, and want to be part of a developing and patient focused team

About us

With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

An insight visit is highly recommended.

Person Specification

Communication

Essential

  • Ability to assess plan, prioritise and deliver own workload
  • Demonstrate effective communication in distressing circumstances
  • Able to present and and recieve complex information within the multi proffessional team.
  • Assertiveness skills and the ability to deal with conflict


Desirable

  • Demonstrate negotiation and influencing skills.


Planning and organisation

Essential

  • Demonstrate ability to prioritise own work load
  • Demonstrate an ability to recognise and respond to urgent and emergency situations.
  • Can formulate short and long term objectives
  • Demonstrate ability to supervise and support others


Desirable

  • Demonstrate effective resource management.


Analytical & Judgement

Essential

  • Demonstrate self- awareness and understanding of differing personalities.
  • Deal effectively with clinical issues within the defined procedures/guidelines
  • Ability in the use of appraisal, personal, development and training needs analysis.
  • Demonstrate insight in the use of data to influence patient care and services


Desirable

  • Demonstrate knowledge of current NHS issues including national liver and cancer service.


Experience

Essential

  • Hepatology experience in any setting within the last 5 years
  • Evidence of dealing with distressed patients and their families.
  • Evidence of organisation and good time management.
  • Evidence of autonomy and the ability to manage a caseload of patients.
  • Experience/involvement of working within a multi-displinary meeting setting.
  • Evidence of teaching experience both in the clinical setting and in the classroom.
  • Evidence of delivering a nurse led service


Desirable

  • Knowledge local liver and national cancer pathway.
  • Evidence of implementation of a new nurse led service


Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • Current level one NMC registration
  • First level degree or willingness to undertake degree study level


Desirable

  • Teaching qualification or who has an interest/experience in teaching.
  • post registration experience to include management/leadership experience
  • Experience in support of learners and new members of the team.


Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

Queens Medical Centre

Nottingham

NG7 2UH

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

164-6641795

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