Clinical Nurse Specialist-Advanced kidney Care

3 weeks ago

Stevenage, United Kingdom East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Full time
Job overview

We are recruiting for an Clinical Nurse Specialist-Advanced kidney Care who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will be responsible for the provision of high quality, patient focused care.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist-Advanced kidney Care is a recognised expert in the specialty, responsible for assessing, developing, and implementing specialist nursing care programmes and undertaking specialist nursing procedures

Responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff. This includes the provision of specialist education and training for other staff and students.

The post holder will implement a clearly defined integrated approach to patient care encompassing new treatments and evidence-based care. Required to undertake research and lead clinical audits in own specialist area.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Nurse Specialist-Advanced kidney Care will be responsible for:

Assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating care as a practitioner with specialist skills.

Provide advice and clinical expertise to staff.

Provide specialist clinical advice for patients and carers

Carry a caseload, and take responsibility for the management of allocated cases.

Improve and maintain standards of care within the specialty.

Develop the skills of generalist nurses to enable them to provide a high standard of care for patients within the specialty.

Provide a high level of communication by:
Liaising with all appropriate members of multi-disciplinary team

Communicating very sensitive condition related information to patients and relatives, requiring high levels of empathy and reassurance

Ensuring the provision of appropriate verbal and written patient information, thus empowering the patient to make informed decisions.

Maintain own knowledge, competence and skill level through regular clinical supervision, appraisal, personal development plans and appropriate training programmes.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specificationPrevious ExperienceEssential criteria
  • Demonstrate expert nursing skills
  • Evidence of mentorship/preceptorship roles
  • Experience of formal/informal teaching
SkillsEssential criteria
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
  • Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
  • Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time management.
  • Effective interpersonal skills
  • Commitment to multidisciplinary working.
QualificationsEssential criteria
  • Registered nurse.
  • Relevant experience in Renal
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • Teaching or mentoring qualification
  • Post registration qualification in specialty or willingness to complete
  • Degree
  • Research Module
Desirable criteria
  • Advanced clinical assessment

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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