Lead Vascular Nurse
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Location
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £46,148 to £52,809 per annum
- Closing date
- 5 Nov 2024
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Are you ready for the next exciting step in your Nursing career? If so, this could be just the job for you.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to join our experienced, highly skilled Vascular Team as Lead Vascular Nurse
We pride ourselves on providing the best possible experience to our patients and their families, ensuring clinical excellence and compassionate, thoughtful care at all times.
Our team would welcome a forward thinking, dynamic Nurse who is committed to ensuring our patients receive only the very best in evidence based Nursing care. The successful candidate will display excellent leadership and communication skills and be able to confidently liaise with all partners to ensure the safe, timely care of our patients.
Our vascular nurse specialist team cover a variety of demands including outpatient clinics, inpatient support, wound review clinics and AAA nurse assessment clinics to name just a few.
Main duties of the job
The role will require you to:
Lead specialist nursing care, maintaining and developing a quality service, including managing the team's business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management and autonomously take overall responsibility for the care of a caseload of patients
Develop and provide specialist training across functional boundaries as required and to develop and implement an educational programme for new members of the CNP team
Maintain a management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the Vascular Care Team.
Lead in relevant internal and external working groups/projects services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise
Present information and explain highly complex issues to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, where understanding of the topic is sometimes limited.
Liaise with other team leaders to share best practice
Prescribe and review medications (as an independent prescriber) for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patient need, and in accordance with best/evidence based practice and local and national policies, and within the role's scope of practice and legal frameworks
Integrate both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment in patient care/management plans.
About us
With over 19,000 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.
Person Specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential
Training and Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Communication and Relationship Skills
Essential
Desirable
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
Desirable
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential
Physical Skills
Essential
Other requirements specific to the role (e.g., be able to work shifts/on call)
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Address
Queen's Medical Centre
Derby Road
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
164-6486025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to join our experienced, highly skilled Vascular Team as Lead Vascular Nurse
We pride ourselves on providing the best possible experience to our patients and their families, ensuring clinical excellence and compassionate, thoughtful care at all times.
Our team would welcome a forward thinking, dynamic Nurse who is committed to ensuring our patients receive only the very best in evidence based Nursing care. The successful candidate will display excellent leadership and communication skills and be able to confidently liaise with all partners to ensure the safe, timely care of our patients.
Our vascular nurse specialist team cover a variety of demands including outpatient clinics, inpatient support, wound review clinics and AAA nurse assessment clinics to name just a few.
Main duties of the job
The role will require you to:
Lead specialist nursing care, maintaining and developing a quality service, including managing the team's business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management and autonomously take overall responsibility for the care of a caseload of patients
Develop and provide specialist training across functional boundaries as required and to develop and implement an educational programme for new members of the CNP team
Maintain a management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the Vascular Care Team.
Lead in relevant internal and external working groups/projects services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise
Present information and explain highly complex issues to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, where understanding of the topic is sometimes limited.
Liaise with other team leaders to share best practice
Prescribe and review medications (as an independent prescriber) for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patient need, and in accordance with best/evidence based practice and local and national policies, and within the role's scope of practice and legal frameworks
Integrate both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment in patient care/management plans.
About us
With over 19,000 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.
Person Specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's behavioural standards
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- BSc in Nursing or similar health specialism or working/committed to completing degree.
- Non-Medical Prescriber qualification or working /committed to completing
Desirable
- MSc in Nursing
- Accredited Modules in Vascular care
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 5 years working in Vascular specialty at Band 6 or above
- Leadership experience
- Experience in day-to-day management role such as rostering staff, wellbeing management etc.
Desirable
- Quality improvement, implementing change
- LEO Course or equivalent
Communication and Relationship Skills
Essential
- Basic computer skills
- Experience of communication within a Multi-Disciplinary Team
- Experience of breaking bad news
Desirable
- Advanced Communication Course
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload, recognise and respond appropriately to urgent situations
- Demonstrate an ability to delegate appropriate tasks to other colleagues.
- Demonstrate knowledge of current issues relating to the NHS policies
- Experience of clinical decision making, for example nurse led discharge
Desirable
- Experience of data collection and analysis
- Experience of using the NVR system
- Experience in change management/delivering change across functional boundaries
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential
- Excellent time keeping and time management.
- Post holder will be expected to work 80% of the time in the clinical setting.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Fit and able to manage a patient workload across both campuses of NUH, Nottingham Treatment Centre and neighbouring Hospitals
Other requirements specific to the role (e.g., be able to work shifts/on call)
Essential
- Must be able to drive so as to provide outreach service to neighbouring Hospitals (SFH).
- Post holder must be able to work 5 days a week
Employer details
Employer name
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Address
Queen's Medical Centre
Derby Road
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
164-6486025
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