Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Severe Asthma
Requirements
Candidates must be registered nurses with valid NMC registration and a degree or equivalent experience. Essential experience includes post-registration in a relevant area and knowledge of clinical governance and patient safety processes.
Job Description
The Birmingham Regional Severe Asthma Service (BRSAS) is a nationally commissioned service providing a highly specialist care delivery to patients across the country. We are one of the largest specialist severe asthma services in the UK.
BRSAS situated at Heartlands Hospital is seeking a band 6 nurse to join our enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic team. This is an exciting opportunity for a band 6 nurse who is looking for a new challenge. We will offer you the opportunity to work as part of a team who are committed to ensuring that our patients receive high quality, holistic care and the chance to expand your knowledge with personal development opportunities to become a specialised asthma nurse.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
You will be a committed team player, but with the ability to work independently.
Excellent Communication Skills Are Required.
You will be required to review in patients providing specialist advice, education, inhaler techniques and assess adherence to medications and complete the asthma bundle.
You will be required to collect data and submit this onto the National Asthma Audit Programme.
You will be required to undertake biological clinics administering injections and undertaking assessments requiring detailed knowledge of the patient response to treatment.
You will be required to educate patients and carers to enable homecare delivery of biologic therapy.
You will be required to undertake nurse led clinics, reviewing patient's progress, making appropriate amendments to care or treatment.
You will be responsible in undertaking and interpreting diagnostic tests.
You will be expected to participate in research and audit, publication and attending meetings and presenting.
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Portfolio of certified / accredited post registration professional development.
- Health Assessment post graduate qualification / willingness to work towards
Essential
- Post registration experience with evidence of knowledge and development for the associated area of specialist practice.
- In depth knowledge of specialist procedures required for role, with willingness to undertake further training/ education to achieve agreed level of competence.
- Knowledge of standards and policies associated with role.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
- Demonstrable understanding of the national / NHSE diagnostic/ therapeutic expectations / strategy around endoscopy services and can relate this to the role.
- Demonstrable understanding of clinical governance / patient safety process's -- can relate this to the role in relation to their personal/professional accountability.
Essential
- Excellent written, verbal communication skills
- Ability to follow complex instructions consistently in relation to the delivery of endoscopy practice.
- Consistently professional, collaborative, and compassionate in their approach to colleagues/ patients
- Effective people skills including high degree of self-awareness / self-regulation.
- Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse information/ data and develop skills in reporting of video capsule images.
- Ability to recognise limits of own competence and seek advice/ support escalating concerns as required.
- Ability to apply, evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
- Ability to plan, prioritise workload in response to service need
- Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload and developing skills, knowledge, and competence.
- Ability to work towards autonomous enhanced practice through exposure, supervised practice to a preset level of clinical competence.
- Ability to apply, evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
- Ability to contribute to service development
- Acts to support and enable teamwork.
- Cheerful outlook towards supporting organisational / service changes, learning and continuous quality improvement
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.
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.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Julie Sullivan
julie.sullivan@uhb.nhs.uk
01214242172
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9017595
Job locations
Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green E
Birmingham
West Midlands
B9 5SS
Attachments
Job Description
Band 6 JD PS.pdf – 481KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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