Job summary
The nurse Consultant for Emergency Surgery is an Advanced Practice Role responsible for providing expert clinical leadership, advanced practice and strategic guidance to ensure high quality, evidenced based care to patients requiring emergency surgery interventions. The role will provide direct patient care in complex cases, focusing on rapid assessment, diagnosis and advanced management plans in collaboration with surgeons and other specialists. The role is autonomous, and the Nurse Consultant will manage their own clinical patient/ service portfolio across Emergency Surgery Services.
The Nurse Consultant will work collaboratively with the Clinical Nurse Manager for SAU and the Clinical Service Lead for Emergency Surgery at UHCW, to drive initiatives that improve patient outcomes, streamline workflows and enhance patient experience and positive patient outcomes. They will work to deliver evidenced based practice and protocols and adapt emergency pathways for surgical patients toward an ambulatory / outpatient model. This will be achieved through employing service redesign and project management skills. They will also engage and lead in research projects related to emergency surgery.
Main duties of the job
- Autonomously provides high-quality, value-based professional practice that improves people's experience, supporting them to make decisions in complex situations.
- Provide a strong presence and clinical expertise with 50% of time contributing to direct patient care. This will be across Emergency Surgical pathways and footprint
- Provides a positive approach to working with difference and diversity, challenging stigma, and using the best possible communication methods.
- Embeds shared decision-making with service users and partners in every situation, so that:- People can represent themselves and carers and communities can act together.- valid and reliable tools for providing care and services can be selected; and- The effectiveness of physical, psychological, and social interventions and services (including drug, non-drug and surgical) and the transition through each stage of care and services can be assessed.
- Contributes to and leads joint reviews of health care and services through peer reviews, audits and evaluations of safety, quality, and health outcomes, making sure people's voices are at the heart of the process.
About us
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do. Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Implement, establish and evaluate systems and measures to show progress, listening to feedback from key stakeholders across every level of the system.
- Leads risk management in unpredictable and complex situations, and where a precedent has not been set.
- Develops and implements evidence-based practice and improvement of quality, safety, and health and service outcomes.
- Develops, implements, and evaluates care and service pathways, standards, policies, guidelines, procedures, service improvement and practice accreditation.
- Ensures formal systems are in place for collecting and reviewing feedback from patients and service users, carers, and staff across services, working with service teams to identify and action any feedback.
- Engages local people, carers, and service users in developing, evaluating, and improving services.
- Collaborate with and contribute to professional bodies, clinical networks, commissioners, regional and national level, third sectors, charities, and other partners.
- Prescribe and support clinical prescribing within the organisation as appropriate to role and professional regulation.
- Work within the practitioners scope of practice, acknowledging own limitations, seeking advice and referral to other health and social professionals/services.
- Role model high quality safe and effective person-centered care to patients across care pathway.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Implement, establish and evaluate systems and measures to show progress, listening to feedback from key stakeholders across every level of the system.
- Leads risk management in unpredictable and complex situations, and where a precedent has not been set.
- Develops and implements evidence-based practice and improvement of quality, safety, and health and service outcomes.
- Develops, implements, and evaluates care and service pathways, standards, policies, guidelines, procedures, service improvement and practice accreditation.
- Ensures formal systems are in place for collecting and reviewing feedback from patients and service users, carers, and staff across services, working with service teams to identify and action any feedback.
- Engages local people, carers, and service users in developing, evaluating, and improving services.
- Collaborate with and contribute to professional bodies, clinical networks, commissioners, regional and national level, third sectors, charities, and other partners.
- Prescribe and support clinical prescribing within the organisation as appropriate to role and professional regulation.
- Work within the practitioners scope of practice, acknowledging own limitations, seeking advice and referral to other health and social professionals/services.
- Role model high quality safe and effective person-centered care to patients across care pathway.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Desirable
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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 Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Address
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
Clifford Bridge Road
Walsgrave , Coventry
CV2 2DX
Employer's website
https://www.jobsatuhcw.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)
