The Acute Pain Team provide their services for inpatients and all acute care site within the Health Board. We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, dedicated and experienced Registered Nurse with a keen interest in acute pain to join our established team. This role will incorporate cross site cover to Singleton and Neath Port Talbot Hospital with main base at Morriston Hospital.

The successful candidate will be required to advise the wider MDT with regards to all aspects of pain management, including advice about Patient Controlled Analgesia and Epidural Analgesia as well as other aspects of pain management. Experienced in caring for patients with Epidural, PCA's and other advanced pain management techniques is desirable.

The role requires the successful candidate to work directly with postoperative patients observing and monitoring their pain relief and will also involve providing teaching to ward based nurses and other health care professionals of all levels about safe care of patients with these advanced techniques.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work as part of a small dedicated team of CNS and along side their anaesthetic colleagues covering both adult in paediatric inpatients. The post holder will be required to provide specialist advice in all aspects of aspects of acute pain management across all acute hospital sites within the Health Board.

Crucial aspects of the post are to ensure safety and efficiency of complex pain management techniques, act as a credible resource for information on all aspects of acute pain as well as provision of teaching. Previous relevant experience of caring for patients with acute pain needs is essential, along with experience of managing patients with PCA's and Epidurals.

The role requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a willingness to work at an enhanced level and the ability to practice autonomously. The successful candidate will have a good level of experience and practice within ideally the surgical directorate, as our patients are predominantly post-operative patients.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a detailed outline of the job requirements. This is available for you bilingually, in English and Welsh.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Current NMC registration
• Specialist post registration qualification or equivalent experience i.e., Acute Pain Management
• Knowledge of service improvement
• Knowledge of clinical speciality i.e, Acute Pain Management

Desirable

• Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
• Advanced Clinical Skills

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience as Band 5 in acute setting
• Experience in the relevant speciality i.e., Pain Management or Surgery
• Experience of working in a multi-professional environment
• Experience of mentoring students
• Experience of undertaking adults in the clinical area

Desirable

• Experience of participating in practice change

Aptitudes and Abilities

Essential

• Excellent communication skills i.e., oral, written and listening
• Digital literacy i.e., ability to use the health board clinical systems
• Awareness of Professional issues and developments in Pain Management

Values

Essential

• Demonstrates Health Board Values

Employer details

Employer name

Swansea Bay University Health Board

Address

Based at Morriston Hospital but role includes cross site cover to Singleton and Neath Port Talbot

Heol Maes Eglwys

Swansea

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