Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist to lead on sacral nerve stimulation of the bladder (SNS), in the urology department at University Hospitals Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The post is for 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, working closely with a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Urological Consultants, Outpatient, theatre and Ward Staff.
Applications are invited from nurses who are dynamic and forward thinking, with an interest in developing new skills and can deliver high quality patient centred care in an inpatient and outpatient setting. The successful candidate will require urology experience. Practice is protocol driven and the successful applicant will be given full training to deliver the care and investigations required, allowing development of new skills, which are transferable to many different areas of nursing, and so would be an asset to any nursing career, being familiar with sacral Nerve stimulation would be an advantage.
The successful nurse will be able to demonstrate the ability to drive forward and deliver services using change management and have the skills to measure any changes made using clinical audit.
A large part of the role is patient support, so the nurse will produce patient information, update the information already available and develop and write the protocols to ensure safe, effective practice.
The main duties of this job will involve delivering care to patients undergoing sacral Nerve stimulation.
The Successful candidate will be responsible for taking on managerial responsibilities that are shared among the senior management Clinical Nurse Specialist team such as appraisal, managing HR issues, managing leave and sickness.
Core duties
* flow rate/bladder scan
* change of urethral and supra pubic catheters
* teaching clean intermittent self-catheterisation and dilatation
* Providing advice via the telephone to support care and triage
More specifically the duties that the SNS nurse is responsible for are, managing patients who are having PNE tined lead test and sacral nerve stimulation, these include counselling the patient pre-treatment, decision making about suitability and contributing a nursing perspective to the medical decision-making process, programming the device and teaching the patient how to manage the device, post-operative care, removal of temporary leads, managing dressings and addressing patient queries.
We are looking for an organised individual for this exciting opportunity, who can be self-driven and able to work autonomously following protocols in clinic.
About the organisation and inclusion
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
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