Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist Stroke

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7, part time with 22,5 hours per week Lead CNS for Stroke to join the service here at Worcester Royal Hospital. We are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate and dedicated leader to join our stroke team to support the provision of specialist treatment and care for patients immediately following a stroke.

Please note this post requires 7 day working including occasional night working.

This post will have responsibilities for managing the team of 8 Stroke CNS's.

For an informal discussion please contact Matron Gincy John on bleep 807 or email gincyjohn@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Role Dimensions:

Dimension

Yes (please give details)

Staff Management

Senior Line manager for Band 6 Stroke CNS team.

Maintain a workable 24/7 roster.

Manage any performance or sickness in line with trust policy.

Provide leadership and direction to the CNS team.

Single site base

Worcester Royal Hospital

Trust wide lead role

Yes - Ongoing service development and education of

staff working within stroke medicine.

Drive improvements in SSNAP audit

Undertakes roles formally/normally undertaken by medical staff

Yes under support of medical consultant- Working autonomously orders tests and investigations.

Communicates diagnosis and results of investigations and treatment plan to patient and relatives.

Works in support/alongside

medical staff

Yes - works alongside medical staff as well as

autonomously.

Nurse prescriber

Not essential

Training

Lead on embedding new technology into work place ie video triage.

Teaches informally i.e. one

to one/ward based teaching

Yes - frequently has student nurses and therapists and

sometimes graduate pharmacists

One to one teaching with medical staff, nurses and

therapists on a daily basis

Has on call commitments

No

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide a service working within the Clinical Nurse Specialist nursing team within the speciality of stroke. Manages a caseload. Acting as a link with the Worcestershire Health Community, in particular the Community Stroke Team, to ensure timely and appropriate transfer of care in a managed way.

Internal

Hospital Consultants and their medical teams.

All nursing staff throughout the trust, particularly the Stroke Unit

Occupational Therapists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists

Other members of the multi-professional team such as pharmacist

Patients, carers and relatives

Support staff

Clinical Nurse Specialists

Social Care

External

Community Stroke Team

Nurses working in the community and for other organisations

General Practitioners and members of their multi-professional teams

Professionals and carers working in the community including residential settings

Patients, carers and relatives attending the outpatient setting and for ongoing support following discharge from hospital

Voluntary agencies

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse First level registration Diploma Evidence of Post-registration Stroke related study

Desirable

• First Degree in clinically relevant subject/be willing to work towards a Degree Teaching qualification/ be willing to work towards Health Assessment qualification Nurse prescriber

Experience

Essential

• Recent and relevant experience in Stroke care Working within a multidisciplinary team Experience and training of staff

Desirable

• Involvement in clinical audit/research Evidence of advanced clinical assessment/decision making and care delivery skills

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).