Job Overview
Exciting Opportunity: Clinical Nurse Specialist – Vascular Access
Location: Wexham Park Site
Band 6 Development Role Or Band 7 (Experienced Candidates)
Join our dynamic Vascular Access Team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, based at Wexham Park. This role offers a Band 6 development opportunity for those looking to advance their career, or a Band 7 position for experienced professionals.
As part of the only 7-day vascular access service in the UK, you will provide expert vascular access care to both inpatients and outpatients, working collaboratively within the wider IVAS team.
Main duties of the job
To Support and work in conjunction with the IVAS team in the delivery of the vascular access service, working under the supervision of the vascular access senior clinical nurse specialists .
The aim of this post is to provide inpatients and outpatients with bespoke vascular access including placing PICCs, ultrasound guided cannula and midlines to support vessel health and deliver safe IV therapy.
The post holder will work independently under the direction of the band 7 CNS team and will report to the IVAS matron. They will have regular clinical supervision and work towards becoming a band 7 CNS in vascular access.
The post holder will also support the band 3 vascular access technician in the delivery of the difficult IV access service and undertake regular audits and deliver training to ward staff. They will support the difficult IV access pathway with ultrasound guided cannulation, midline insertion and PICC insertion for inpatients and outpatients
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered 1st Level Nurse Registered nurse
- Teaching, assessing and mentorship qualification with experience in teaching individuals from a range of disciplines including nursing, medicine
Desirable criteria
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience at Band 6 or 7, less experience considered if going for the Band 6 development role
- Experience of audit/data collection
- Experience of working with IV therapy and vascular access is some form
Desirable criteria
- Previously or currently presented information to national meetings
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills and time management
- Clinical skills to include - Vascular Access - Venepuncture - Cannulation - All aspects of IV therapy administration - Midlines Insertion - PICC Line Insertion - Ultrasound Guided cannulation - Immediate life Support
- Computer Literacy skills including familiarity with Microsoft Office package including Word, Publisher, Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to work independently and as a member of multidisciplinary team
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work across various sites including, but not limited to: - Frimley Park Hospital - Wexham Park Hospital - Heatherwood Hospital
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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