Lead Nurse- Pain Service

Job summary

Lead Nurse Pain Service

Band 8a Full time (Part-time opportunities may be considered) Maternity cover until September 2024.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified, experienced and motivated Lead Nurse within our Pain Service.

Working as part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will help to develop and deliver all aspects of our acute and chronic pain service providing clinical leadership to nursing staff and expert professional advice to other healthcare professionals, patients and carers.

Reporting to the Divisional Head of Nursing, the successful applicant will be an expert in pain management and be able to provide nursing leadership of pain services through clinical expertise, education and service development. You will also ensure safe governance in the use of pain management techniques; develop and monitor standards within the service and promote best practice in the provision of training and education.

You will need to show evidence of masters-level study relating to pain and ideally need to be a Nurse Independent Prescriber or show that you are working towards this.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will become an integral part of the pain team who strive to ensure a coordinated and multi-professional approach to diagnosis, treatment, planning and care provision for all patients and their families. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work alone as well as with the multidisciplinary team to deliver the highest standard of care.

In your application, please use the supporting statement to show how you are meeting the requirements of the job description and person specification. We would consider a job share position if the opportunity arose from a successful interview.

We offer a flexible approach to working hours to meet the needs of the individual and the service. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

We would welcome and encourage you contacting us to discuss the role in more detail and are happy to arrange an informal visit.

For further information or informal enquiries please contact:

Tanya Carr - Clinical Nurse specialist T.Carr@nhs.net, on x 4453 or

Penelope Makrykosta Matron penelope.makrykosta@nhs.net, on x 6940

About us

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is a friendly, supportive, busy but welcoming acute and community Trust that is ambitious about developing our services and your career.

Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development. There are over 4,500 members of our Royal Surrey family.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in the community and homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. We are investing in our colleagues through our health and wellbeing programme and a commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.

There has never been a better time to join us.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Egerton Road

Guildford

Surrey

GU2 7XX

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Egerton Road

Guildford

Surrey

GU2 7XX

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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