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Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 15 June 2025
We are looking for an experienced Urology Nurse or a qualified Urology Nurse practitioner to join our Service as a Clinical Nurse Specialist!
There has never been a more exciting time to join the Urology Speciality here at NUH: we provide a Urology pathway to the whole of Nottinghamshire and work closely with our community and health partners including Sherwood Forest NHS Foundation Trust. Recently NUH was awarded the contract for the Nottingham Treatment Centre, based at our QMC campus and we are further developing our Urology service and require a motivated and experienced Nurse practitioner.
If you possess excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, have the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and have a specialist interest in developing the service we provide then please apply, we would be happy to have you as part of our team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an experienced practitioner, acting within their professional boundaries.
You will ultimately use your knowledge and skills to provide expert, efficient and safe patient care whilst under supervision of a mentor. You will demonstrate clinical judgement and critical decision-making skills based upon evidence based practice, and you will learn and develop form working collaboratively with consultants, Specialist Nurses and the wider multi-disciplinary team in order to meet the urgent care needs of patients. Working and learning from experienced consultants and practitioners as part of your work routine will provide a constant, supportive learning curve.
You will be mainly based at City Campus but you may be required to work at the Treatment Centre on occasions as part of your role.
About us
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications/training
* Degree in Nursing or relevant Health related subject
* Urology related course
Experience
* Significant Urology experience and understanding of complications and management of urological health issues
* Autonomous and wider MDT working
* Skilled in speciality specific procedures eg: flexible cystoscopies, LATP biopsies, uro dinamics
Analytical and judgement
* Able to respond to complex situations - put effective interventions in place
* Able to critically analyse and evaluate research findings
* Knowledge of Specialty pathways and national cancer targets
* experience of writing audit/research reports for a multiprofessional audience
Planning and organisational
* able to organise own workload and prioritise effectively
* Evidence of participating in local projects
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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