Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (Band 7) and take a leading role in delivering and developing our Tobacco Addiction Cure Team (TACT) service. This is a 12-month fixed term post. Candidates must demonstrate an interest in change behaviour and post registration training in smoking cessation. This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-impact, trust-wide service supporting patients and staff to quit smoking. Working within our Respiratory Support Team, you will provide expert clinical leadership, delivering evidence-based tobacco dependency treatment across inpatient and outpatient settings. You will manage and develop the TACT service, delivering nurse-led clinics, supporting complex quit attempts, and driving forward service innovation and research. As a visible clinical leader, you will work both autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality, patient-centred care. This role offers the opportunity to influence population health, reduce health inequalities, and make a measurable difference to patient outcomes across the Trust. 18.75 Contracted hours (per week)
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
As the CNS you will play a pivotal role in the management and care co-ordination of those eligible to receive smoking cessation support. You will be the key worker delivering smoking cessation services across UHB and supporting advisors within the team. In partnership with the Lead consultant you will deliver staff clinics and work across our inpatient outpatient services. You will work with partners within the smoking cessation service across pathways of care to ensure patients discharged from our inpatient services can continue with their supported quit attempt. You will be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and will need to be able to travel across the footprint of the service as needed. Some of your work will be supported by technology virtually and you should be experienced in using IT and technology. Experience with research, audit compiling reports and handling data will be useful within this role.
About Us
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.
Job Description & Person Specification
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Adult Nurse with valid NMC registration
* Evidence of post registration CPD /post registration qualification in the appropriate area of speciality or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience
* Evidence of commitment to advanced clinical and non-clinical continued professional development within own speciality, e.g. post registration training, management /Leadership competencies and evidence of a detailed personal development portfolio
* Relevant, accredited, postgraduate education/courses in smoking cessation.
Desirable
* Training to MSc level
* To have or working towards advanced health assessment module -- where applicable to the role
* Non -- Medical Prescriber/ willingness to undertake - where applicable to the role
* Membership of relevant special interest groups. (eg ARNs / BTS)
Experience
Essential
* Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
* Significant post registration experience of which considerable experience has been in a delivering care in clinics in an acute NHS organisation. To include experience of treating acute and chronic patients.
* Experience working in respiratory clinics.
* Experience of supporting patients with a change behaviour and smoking cessation
* Experience of staff management including supervision and of development and performance management of staff.
* Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing professional development/competence.
* Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality.
* Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
* Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
* Experience of patient service user advocacy role
* Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan,implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients / relatives/ care staff
* Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality
* Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding
* Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance
* Good understanding of IT systems and its application to clinical practice.
Desirable
* Experience in service development Awareness of current research related to the speciality
* Awareness of current research related to the speciality
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Rachael Colclough
Rachael.colclough@uhb.nhs.uk
01213714805
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
Contract
Fixed Term
Duration
12 Month(s)
Working pattern
Part-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-1099741
Job locations
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Attachments
JD PS - Band 7 CNS TACT .pdf – 470KB Opens in a new window
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