Job overview
We are recruiting for a ENT Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The ENT Clinical Nurse Specialist provides expert nursing care, advice, and support to patients with ear, nose, and throat conditions, as well as their families and carers. This role involves leading nurse-led clinics, delivering advanced clinical assessments, and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality, continuous care across peri-operative and post-operative pathways.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will deliver effective nurse led clinics for ENT patients, using advanced assessment skills for examination, including full medical clerking, ordering investigations and using venepuncture skills.
You will be in a position to develop processes to improve access to services liaison with admission department and all ENT doctors.
The post holder will look to implement a research based approach to patient assessment and care planning.
You will also work collaboratively with other disciplines from multidisciplinary teams e.g. Consultant surgeons & units, anaesthetists and ENT Ward 11B to ensure that patients receive appropriate intervention and treatment and ensure the admission process is seamless.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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 specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
* NMC registration
* Demonstrate evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD), Presentation skills
Desirable criteria
* Possess a teaching qualification
* Evidence of post graduate study
* Ability to undertake audits and implement change. IT skills
* Understanding of ENT head and neck related conditions
* Relevant extended role and qualifications e.g. ears, nose and throat, head and neck course, pre-operative assessment course
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Ability to lead and manage change
Desirable criteria
* Previous involvement in the development, implementation and audit of clinical guidelines and standards
* Experience in monitoring, assessing and coaching
* Advanced knowledge on treatments and interventions within ears, nose and throat conditions
Skills
Essential criteria
* Excellent communication skills
* Able to provide and receive highly complex or sensitive information
* Understands the importance of team working
* Ability to manage own work without supervision
* Risk assessments
* Counselling skills
Desirable criteria
* Effective leadership and assertiveness skills
* Demonstrates sound application of theory and evidence of practice
* The ability to challenge practice
* Advance communication skills course
* Research Skills
* Experience of autonomous working
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Enthusiasm, motivation, reliability and flexibility
* Committed to high professional standards
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of the ears, nose and throat conditions
* Able to motivate others
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 Teaching 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.