Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust • Wolverhampton, WV

17h • Onsite

About The Position

To be professionally accountable for the delivery of standards of professional practice and behaviours as set by the Nursing & Midwifery Council. To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family. To promote public health and well-being. The role involves ensuring safe and effective clinical practice, enhancing the patient’s experience, ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives, and efficient and effective use of resources. We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, committed individual with a background in colorectal, surgical or cancer nursing for a Band 6 Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) role. This is an exciting time as new and innovative services are being developed for colorectal patients. The successful candidate must be innovative, enthusiastic and an excellent team player, joining a team of specialist nurses providing specialist nursing care for patients undergoing colorectal cancer treatments including stoma surgery and participating in the 2-week fast track triage service. Commitment to ongoing developments within the colorectal nursing team and professional development as a clinical nurse specialist are crucial. You will be expected to exercise a degree of professional autonomy and make critical judgments using advanced knowledge and skills to provide the highest standard of patient care. You will have clinical responsibilities and will need to be an effective and supportive role model with the ability to work in a flexible yet organised manner.

Requirements

• Background in colorectal, surgical or cancer nursing
• Highly motivated, committed individual
• Innovative, enthusiastic and an excellent team player
• Commitment to ongoing developments within the colorectal nursing team and professional development as a clinical nurse specialist
• Educated to degree level
• Relevant experience within the specialty
• Excellent communication skills
• Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council)

Responsibilities

• Ensure a high standard of safe clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, national legislation and local standards.
• Take personal responsibility for actions and omissions, and fully recognise personal accountability.
• Practise within an ethical framework based upon dignity and respect for the well-being and safety of patients and clients.
• Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence based practice within own work area.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols, standards, policies and clinical guidelines within own work area.
• Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.
• Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis.
• Demonstrate effective communication within the multi-professional team regarding patient care.
• Undertake interventional procedures with appropriate consent.
• Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of practices and protocols to minimise those risks, including safe use of medical devices.
• Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk.
• Provide specialist advice to own and other professions on therapeutic interventions and clinical practice.
• Implement practices that are appropriate to patient and service need through in-depth knowledge, implications of and applying epidemiological, demographic, social, political and professional trends and developments.
• Lead by example, develop self and other staff, and influence the way care is given in a manner that is innovative, open and responds to individual needs.
• Provide clinical supervision to other staff.
• Work harmoniously and effectively with colleagues, patients and clients and their carers, families and friends, seeking advice from senior practitioners as necessary.
• Practise within the scope of personal professional competence and extend this scope as appropriate to service needs.
• Delegate aspects of care to others and accept responsibility and accountability for such delegation.
• Participate in peer review of own practice.
• Day to day supervision/training of staff/students.
• Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations and audits and apply the information when seeking to improve practice.
• To assess individuals holistically using a range of different assessment methods, use physical examination skills, order diagnostic tests for client group.

Benefits

• Supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs
• Consideration of all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly
• Support for all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level