Rheumatology Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

The Rheumatology service cross bay has an exciting opportunity for a 30 hours per week Clinical nurse specialist secondment post. Primarily based at Furness General Hospital in Barrow in Furness, but you may be required to work flexibly across our services supporting our other sites.

UHMBT is situated on the southern edge of the Lake district with convenient links to the major cities in the north of England.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be supporting the Rheumatology service across Morecambe Bay .

You will have proven leadership and management experience or proven capability of managing own workload .

Ideally you will have a degree or have completed recent higher models of learning through University .

This role will involve nurse led clinics and there will be opportunities for professional development such as obtaining the non-medical prescribing qualification.

You will be responsible for running your own nurse led clinic, either face to face or remotely. You will triage concerns from patients/other medical professionals via the Rheumatology answer phone or emails.

About us

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community health care premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Our community services for adults are provided in people's homes, community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals and our main hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, advice and support.