Job description
ColorectalClinical Nurse Specialist
Band: 6
Hours per Week: 37.5
Required Qualifications:
Staff Nurse Grade or above, with a minimum of 12 months Colorectal experience.
The appointee will join the existing colorectal specialist nurse team who will be actively involved with inpatients and outpatients, consultant leads and wider members of the multi-disciplinary team.
As a clinical nurse specialist on the colorectal team you will b responsible for:
Telephone Triage
Providing Results over the Telephone
Attend clinics for review of New and Follow up patients
Review results and action appropriately
Liaise with wider members of the multi-disciplinary team, including the operational management team
Review and Monitor of Data Collection and Audit
Support and guide the Band 4 and 3 administration team
Work closely and ensure good communication and links with the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Interested applicants must be able to plan their own workload, work on their own initiative and to strict deadlines. Demonstrate leadership skills and effective communication at interview.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Clinical Responsibility
Perform specialist assessment of patients nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills.
Lead clinical care by managing a patient caseload providing expert assessment, planning and evaluation.
Co-ordinate and manage nurse-led clinics (within Speciality).
Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patients within the specialist area, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.
Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers / relatives.
Support patients and their families and ensure that they receive the required information to enable them to self-manage, lead or participate in their care delivery.
Recognise changes in patients’ condition that require the intervention of others and refer on as appropriate.
To support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving patient problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management
To lead the specialist nursing contribution to the service, work in partnership with lead clinicians, General Managers, Matron to ensure the delivery of high.