Job summary
1 x Band 6/7 Metabolic Clinical Nurse Specialist- Fixed Term/Secondment 30 hours per week
Due to maternity leave, we currently have an exciting position within our friendly CNS team for an enthusiastic part time Band 6 or 7 (based on experience) CNS.
The South West Regional Metabolic Department provides care for over 650 patients across the region. Whilst some nursing experience or degree of knowledge of these conditions would be advantageousthis is not essential.
Many patients are at risk of becoming ill very quickly and need emergency management initiated quickly and appropriately. The metabolic CNS is often the first point of contact for enquiries from patients, relatives and other professionals.
This is an excellent opportunity for a committed paediatric nurse with excellent verbal and written communication skills to work within a specialist team and autonomously; using their own initiative, demonstrating problem solving skills and brilliant organisational skills.
This role is essential in supporting patients and their families from diagnosis, ongoing care, and management to transition or end of life care.
You will work as part of the established CNS team providing care to all aspects of the metabolic service including the care of Batten's disease patients at Bristol Children's Hospital and the care of Barth Syndrome patients nationally.
Main duties of the job
Main duties:
- Provide patients and staff with specialist advice to manage complex symptoms for both inpatient and outpatient care including emergency alerts and illness management
- Develop, improve, and promote the service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost effective care utilising the support and guidance of senior colleagues
- Develop and share expertise within the multidisciplinary team
- Develop the skills to act as a resource in the care of patient's needs, ensuring an optimum level of service to patients and their carers.
- Work closely with community, hospital, relevant network staff and organisations to ensure an effective seamless service.
- Provide effective communication systems of support for patients
- Provide education to professionals, patients and their families
- Build up a skill set to embed patient and public involvement within the sphere of specialist nursing practice.
- Ensure that all patients and families are aware of all treatment options, including clinical trials
- Work as patient advocate, to help negotiate the patient journey and ensure optimum care is provided to each patient.
- Support patient investigations and care including CNS led investigations and patient infusions e.g. enzyme replacement therapy
- Coordinate and plan patient assessments as per care plans and national monitoring e.g NICE managed access agreements
- Provide cross cover to the Paediatric Metabolic, Batten's and Barth Syndrome CNS service.
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Please indicate on your in supporting information section of your application which position (band 6 or band 7) you are applying for.
This is a fixed term post until approx. January 2025. If you are seeking a secondment; please ensure that this has been agreed by your current line manager prior to interview.
Proposed interview date: 20/11/2023
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Please indicate on your in supporting information section of your application which position (band 6 or band 7) you are applying for.
This is a fixed term post until approx. January 2025. If you are seeking a secondment; please ensure that this has been agreed by your current line manager prior to interview.
Proposed interview date: 20/11/2023
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- RSCN/ RN Child Branch (B6)
- Current NMC Registration (B6 and B7)
- 1st Degree In nursing or health related subject (B7), willing to undertake/ working towards (B6)
- Relevant accredited post registration qualification at level 3 (B6 and B7)
- Qualification in Teaching and Assessing (B6 and B7)
- Evidence of masters level academic study or willingness to work towards Masters (in relevant health related subject) (B7)
Desirable
- Evidence of masters level academic study or willingness to work towards Masters (in relevant health related subject) (B6)
- Management qualification (B7)
- Non-Medical Prescribing (B7)
- Clinical skills e.g. venepuncture, cannulation (B6)
- Clinical skills e.g accessing ventricular access device (B7)
Public Sector Language Competency
Essential
- Be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Appropriate post registration experience in nursing (B6)
- Appropriate proven leadership and management experience (B6)
- Proven commitment and experience, evidence in teaching (B6)
- Thorough and up to date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice particularly within speciality area (B7)
- Significant relevant clinical experience (B7)
- Evidence of recent teaching experience (B7)
- Experience of undertaking research or audit projects (B7)
Desirable
- Appropriate post registration speciality experience (B6)
- Experience of undertaking research or audit projects (B6)
- Evidence of commitment to research based practice or evidence of project work undertaken (B6)
- Substantial current speciality experience (B7)
- Experience and knowledge of advanced practice/protocols (B7)
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Organisation and management skills (B6)
- Teaching (B6)
- Ability to work effectively under pressure (B6)
- Ability to problem solve (B6)
- Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service (B6 and B7)
- Ability to work alone or as part of a team (B6)
- Ability to cope with emotional issues presented in the course of work, and to support others (B6 and B7)
- Knowledge of national and local specialty specific issues (B6 and B7)
- IT skills including use of email and Microsoft office packages (B6)
- Act as a role model and as a mentor/assessor (B6)
- Innovative and participates with practice and policy change (B6)
- Awareness of professional responsibilities to self and others (B6)
- Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care (B6 and B7)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (B6)
- Awareness of current national changes in nursing / NHS (B6)
- Initiative (B7)
- Information technology skills (B7)
- Ability to act as facilitator, mentor and supervisor to colleagues (B7)
- Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for patients (B7)
- Clinical expert in defined area of work (B7)
- Demonstrates ability to implement and utilise audit data to improve quality (B7)
- The ability to lead and influence change (B7)
- Strong organisational skills - prioritising complex situations (B7)
- Able to gain credibility with and influence colleagues including influencing clinical changes where appropriate (B7)
- Highly effective communication skills - verbally and written to staff, patients and relatives including in situations of conflict or distress (B7)
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- RSCN/ RN Child Branch (B6)
- Current NMC Registration (B6 and B7)
- 1st Degree In nursing or health related subject (B7), willing to undertake/ working towards (B6)
- Relevant accredited post registration qualification at level 3 (B6 and B7)
- Qualification in Teaching and Assessing (B6 and B7)
- Evidence of masters level academic study or willingness to work towards Masters (in relevant health related subject) (B7)
Desirable
- Evidence of masters level academic study or willingness to work towards Masters (in relevant health related subject) (B6)
- Management qualification (B7)
- Non-Medical Prescribing (B7)
- Clinical skills e.g. venepuncture, cannulation (B6)
- Clinical skills e.g accessing ventricular access device (B7)
Public Sector Language Competency
Essential
- Be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Appropriate post registration experience in nursing (B6)
- Appropriate proven leadership and management experience (B6)
- Proven commitment and experience, evidence in teaching (B6)
- Thorough and up to date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice particularly within speciality area (B7)
- Significant relevant clinical experience (B7)
- Evidence of recent teaching experience (B7)
- Experience of undertaking research or audit projects (B7)
Desirable
- Appropriate post registration speciality experience (B6)
- Experience of undertaking research or audit projects (B6)
- Evidence of commitment to research based practice or evidence of project work undertaken (B6)
- Substantial current speciality experience (B7)
- Experience and knowledge of advanced practice/protocols (B7)
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Organisation and management skills (B6)
- Teaching (B6)
- Ability to work effectively under pressure (B6)
- Ability to problem solve (B6)
- Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service (B6 and B7)
- Ability to work alone or as part of a team (B6)
- Ability to cope with emotional issues presented in the course of work, and to support others (B6 and B7)
- Knowledge of national and local specialty specific issues (B6 and B7)
- IT skills including use of email and Microsoft office packages (B6)
- Act as a role model and as a mentor/assessor (B6)
- Innovative and participates with practice and policy change (B6)
- Awareness of professional responsibilities to self and others (B6)
- Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care (B6 and B7)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (B6)
- Awareness of current national changes in nursing / NHS (B6)
- Initiative (B7)
- Information technology skills (B7)
- Ability to act as facilitator, mentor and supervisor to colleagues (B7)
- Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for patients (B7)
- Clinical expert in defined area of work (B7)
- Demonstrates ability to implement and utilise audit data to improve quality (B7)
- The ability to lead and influence change (B7)
- Strong organisational skills - prioritising complex situations (B7)
- Able to gain credibility with and influence colleagues including influencing clinical changes where appropriate (B7)
- Highly effective communication skills - verbally and written to staff, patients and relatives including in situations of conflict or distress (B7)
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 Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
Address
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Upper Maudlin St.
Bristol
BS2 8BJ
Employer's website
https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
