ENT Specialist Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Maintain already established Specialist Nurse Clinics. Plan and develop Specialist Nursing service.
• Lead resource within the ENT area.
• Assess and diagnose the cause of a patients problem; thereafter provide the appropriate nursing intervention and care, evaluate and discharge.
• Detailed information giving is imperative with verbal information being reinforced by way of patient information leaflets specifically relating to the patient problem. Identify methods of self-help along with rationale for any treatment and its administration. Contact telephone numbers are detailed on these leaflets. All aspects of health promotion, health education and continuity of care are vital components within our nursing care programme.
• Empower patient choice and involvement initiating appropriate action.
• Empathically communicate highly sensitive information to patients, relatives and carers in a highly supportive private environment.

• Ensure the maintenance of accurate, legible and up to date patient records.
• Provide clinical advice and support to health care professionals both within and across organisational boundaries such as Minor Injury Units, General Practitioners, NHS Direct, Pharmacies, Social Services, Paediatric liaison and other specialist units.
• Highly developed hand-eye co-ordination is essential to enable the user of the microscope to perform ear examinations involving such procedures as removing foreign bodies and micro suction in both emergency and routine patients.
• Accountable and responsible for the care given to each patient during nurse-led clinics such as, aural care, dizzy, tracheostomy, skin prick, tonsillectomy, rhinology clinics, tongue tie.
• Work with patients and carers to develop services.
• Participate with future developments in improving nursing care within the department.
• Would on occasions be expected to manage an area of clinical activity within the outpatient department.
• Take responsibility in the absence of the Nurse Manager, management duties for the department such as; day to allocation of staff and smooth running of the department.
• In the absence of the nurse manager organise and arrange the duty roster and cover for the department and respond to frequently changing departmental needs including cover for sickness at short notice.
• Participate in the planning and development of the ENT service through working parties and peer group meetings.
• Directly supports the department Nurse Manager for the ENT clinical area and its multi-disciplinary team.
• Work in close collaboration with the Consultants and other medical staff across boundaries to ensure the service meets patient needs.
• Continual participation in the development of specialist protocols and policies by means of working parties and audit.
• Report and manage untoward incidents such as complaints, clinical emergencies and injury or drug administration errors as detailed in trust-wide and local protocols and procedures, referring to department manager if available.
• Participate in staff appraisals ensuring all staff have an annual appraisal that includes a personal development plan relevant to their needs.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current NMC Registration
• Proven evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.
• A proven awareness of research and evidence based practice within setting.

Desirable

• Post registration ENT specialist qualification.
• Aural care course
• Mentor qualification

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Extensive demonstrable post registration experience
• Demonstrable experience within ENT speciality.
• Leadership/management training.

Desirable

• Leadership/management training
• Work in an outpatient settings
• Demonstrable experience of aural care
• Providing a nurse led service/clinic

Aptitude and Abilities

Essential

• Advanced skills, written with verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels.
• Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others.

Desirable

• Demonstrate management abilities.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Address

ENT OPD Level 7

University Hospitals Plymouth

PLYMOUTH

PL6 8DH

Employer's website

https://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)