Urology Benign Nurse Specialist

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 01 December 2024

Job summary

Are you dynamic and forward thinking? Are you currently working as a senior nurse and looking for further development in your career and love working in Urology?

Then we would like you to come and work with a positive and collaborative team in Urology!

If you have a background in urology and general surgery and are wanting to build upon this, if you feel that you have the drive and determination to help transform and develop the service, then the ideal job opportunity has arisen.

The Urology Specialist Nurse team are looking to recruit a caring, compassionate and forward-thinking nurse for the band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Benign Urology.

This means you will be working within an experienced, welcoming, patient focused, inclusive team who will support you into this role.

Leadership skills will be required to provide direction, uphold, and elevate care standards ensuring our benign service runs to the highest standards. Training will be offered to the successful candidate, as eventually they will be expected to work autonomously, however a background interest and knowledge in Urology is essential.

This is an exciting role where you can shape excellent care within the urology service by working closely and alongside consultant clinics, with referrals for patients from Urology, Oncology and ED.

Please contact the Urology Specialist nurses team for further information .

Main duties of the job

The main roles of the job will be working with patients who have benign urology conditions. The successful candidate will be supported to develop competence and skill in undertaking trial without catheters, difficult catheterisations, flow rates, urodynamic studies, instillations as well as many more.

As a senior nurse you will work as a role model nurturing professional development for yourself and your colleagues at LTHTR. You will also be working closely with community teams such as the continence service and the district nurses to meticulously plan and provide excellent evidence-based patient care which align to our trust values and those of the nursing and midwifery professional framework.

Within your role, you will support in providing expert advice related to specific conditions or treatment pathways whilst focusing on improving patient care and service development. You'll assess patients holistically, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care.

You will provide specialist advice to patient families and carers and the wider multidisciplinary team and carry out specialist nursing procedures in relation to benign urological patient.

About us

You will be supported within a wider Urology Specialist nurse team, and line managed by a Urology Cancer Specialist nurse. This role works across Preston and Chorley hospital sites.

We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Date posted

15 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum, pro Rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

438-PB2486

Job locations

Royal Preston Lancashire Teaching Hospital

Sharoe Green Lane North

Fulwood, Preston

PR2 9HT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the details within the job description and person specification for the details of the role of a Urology Benign specialist nurse,:

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of nursing care for benign Urology patients.
Planning and Undertaking Urological procedures as outlined in the job description and supported by Clinicians and Senior CNS teams as required
To work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the cohesive management of benign Urology patients.
To contribute to the development of the workforce through delivering education and training.
To be involved and contribute to service development within the team
To participate in research activity and clinical audits in own specialist area;
Supervises and delivers a range of clinical and core nursing skills and interventions to meet physiological and psychosocial needs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the details within the job description and person specification for the details of the role of a Urology Benign specialist nurse,:

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of nursing care for benign Urology patients.
Planning and Undertaking Urological procedures as outlined in the job description and supported by Clinicians and Senior CNS teams as required
To work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the cohesive management of benign Urology patients.
To contribute to the development of the workforce through delivering education and training.
To be involved and contribute to service development within the team
To participate in research activity and clinical audits in own specialist area;
Supervises and delivers a range of clinical and core nursing skills and interventions to meet physiological and psychosocial needs.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Able to perform clinical duties commensurate to that of the role
Ability to Implement changes within nursing practice
Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice
Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures
Knowledge of ethical issues
Evidence of clinical competence in area of speciality
Evidence of working at a senior nursing level within area of speciality
Knowledge of change processes

Desirable

Knowledge of the PDPR Process
Experience in managing complex patients
Ability to undertake senior Urological nursing interventions
Project management

Qualifications & Education

Essential

Appropriate NMC Registration
Mentorship qualification
Post Registration Qualifications relevant to the role
Degree level qualification

Desirable

Leadership qualification
Msc Degree

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Able to perform clinical duties commensurate to that of the role
Ability to Implement changes within nursing practice
Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice
Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures
Knowledge of ethical issues
Evidence of clinical competence in area of speciality
Evidence of working at a senior nursing level within area of speciality
Knowledge of change processes

Desirable

Knowledge of the PDPR Process
Experience in managing complex patients
Ability to undertake senior Urological nursing interventions
Project management

Qualifications & Education

Essential

Appropriate NMC Registration
Mentorship qualification
Post Registration Qualifications relevant to the role
Degree level qualification

Desirable

Leadership qualification
Msc Degree

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.

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