13 Oct
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham
Job description
Job summary
Are you looking for a career move to enhance your clinical and leadership experience? We have an exciting opportunity within our anticoagulation service at University Hospitals Birmingham!
We are an ambitious, and dedicated team that cannot wait to welcome you and support you to become an anticoagulant expert.
We are looking for an experienced nurse with significant management experience and skills to lead and support our anti-coagulation team.
Speciality support and training can be offered and you will be welcomed in to a close team of clinical nurse specialists and consultants.
You will line manage the staff within the team working across our hospital sites at the Good Hope,
Heartlands and Queen Elizabeth hospitals, primarily based at our Heartlands site.
You will also work clinically to manage and support the patient pathways. You will be key in developing and enhancing the service, ensuring consistency and identifying areas for change and improvement.
Please do get in touch to discuss this opportunity and informal visits are welcomed.
Main duties of the job
Main duties
The role ensures the provision of excellent care with compassion working with patients requiring anticoagulant therapy by :
- Supporting the ongoing provision of a nurse led service and the development of new staff to those standards
- Supporting a culture of patient self-management, allowing patients to develop responsibility for managing their own condition.
- Providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support
- Cross site working to support consistence and to identify service requirements.
- You will support the nursing team to deliver excellent standards of communication and coordinated care.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to :
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment.
This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers,
including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work.
This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO.
We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC Register.
- Professional knowledge acquired through post graduate degree / supplemented by specialist training , experience, short courses to Masters level equivalent
- Non-Medical Prescribing Course or willingness to undertake where this is a requirement of the role
Experience
Essential
- Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
- Willingness to become a practice supervisor / assessor or meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
- Extensive post registration experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Band 7 or above in defined or associated speciality
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
- 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.
- Experience in service development
- Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment
- Experience of patient service user Experience of resource and budgetary management
- Experience of leading on the writing / updating of organisational Policy / Procedure / Guidelines associated with the speciality / field 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 and can translate this in to local practice reflected in organisational policy / procedure and service delivery
- Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding
- Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance
▶️ Band 8a Anticoagulation Services Lead Nurse
🖊️ University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Birmingham