Renal Vascular Access and Pathway Coordinator Specialist Nurse

The post holder will form part of the Renal Specialist Nurse team at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. The service manages over 600 dialysis patients across the Greater Manchester footprint.
They will provide specialist expertise and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, treatment, and management of the client group utilising evidence-based practice. They will contribute to clinical governance within the service by facilitating audit and research as part of the MDT within the specialist field.
**The post principle objectives are**:
To ensure all patients follow a vascular access pathway.
Collaborative working with all multidisciplinary members to ensure positive outcomes for all vascular access patients
**Leadership**:

- Collaborative working with Surgical, Medical and Radiology staff with regards to patients, adhering to the 18-week vascular access pathway.
- Identify gaps in service provision and in agreement with the MDT implement changes required to improve service provision.
- Recognise, understand and accept the requirement to act as an advocate for patients, carers, service and organisation.
- Work closely with patients and staff driving evidence-based practice of cannulation.
- Define best practice in vascular access cannulation.

**Clinical Practice**:

- Assess plan and implement programmes of evidence-based care for client group, implementing the vascular access pathway.
- Ensure interventions are undertaken in line with best practice guidance.
- Act as a resource and provide advice, information and support to Trust staff caring for specific client group.
- Provide specialist advice and support to client group.

Education, Development and Research
- Support the Renal Education Team to develop and deliver specific and relevant specialist teaching programmes for all disciplines and grades of staff, client group, and carers within the Trust in relation to area of specialty.
- Demonstrate knowledge of current research in all aspects of their work and to advise others on the implementation of relevant research findings.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
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