Band 7 Pain Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

In collaboration with the other pain nurse specialist, in-patient pain consultant.

The post holder will lead, develop, implement, and evaluate a seamless specialist acute pain service promoting excellence in patient care, working in collaboration with multidisciplinary team members.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership to nursing staff and expert professional advice to other professionals, multidisciplinary groups, patients, relatives, and carers.
The post holder will promote evidencebased practice in pain management through the integration of expert clinical practice, education, and implementation of guidelines and policies.
Act as a role model and clinical expert within pain management across Whittington Health. This role is to support surgical patients and may include giving advice to other areas such as paediatrics and medical patients with acute pain.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Clinical

Act as a role model and clinical expert within pain management across Whittington Health. This role is to support surgical patients and may include giving advice to other areas such as paediatrics and medical patients with acute pain.
Provide nursing leadership as part of the Inpatient acute pain service and manage a patient caseload independently providing expert assessment, diagnosis, planning and evaluation of clinical practice in accordance with local policies and procedures
Review patients with complex pain needs, escalating as appropriate by

referring and discussing care with lead pain nurse, relevant medical & anaesthetic colleagues.

Assess patients pain using appropriate assessment tools, including

assessment tools for patients that are cognitivity impared

Accept patient referrals from members of the multiprofessional team, providing advice and recommending treatment.
Refer patients to other disciplines as necessary
Contribute towards a multiprofessional approach in the management of patients, by liaising with medical teams and all professionals involved in a patients' care.
Provide specialist clinical interventions, such as the administration of epidural and opioid boluses, programming of pain management devices, the adjustment of the depth of epidural catheters, and the provision of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) to inpatients.
Support the ward staff to effectively care for patients needing pain management through demonstrating a sound knowledge base, visibility, and clinical leadership.
Initiate and implement changes in clinical practice that improve standards of care and health outcomes for patients.
Communicate effectively with patients, carers, family, and health professionals by providing support, information, education, and counselling
Act as patient advocate

Education and training

Provide support and training to all staff within the clinical environment ensuring the electronic data base is regularly updated to reflect staff that have been trained
Provide education and advise staff and patients in the use of complementary techniques to assist with managing acute pain, such as relaxation, distraction, counselling, selfmanagement regimes in line with current evidence and best practice from Royal College of Anaesthetists, NICE guidance, psychologists and experts in chronic pain.
Devise and provide written educational information for patients and carers to enhance their understanding of the mechanisms of acute and chronic pain and pain medication to meet their ethnicity need
Develop and update patient information leaflets relating to pain management
Provide ongoing training to anaesthetists, junior doctors and new nurses through teaching and audit.
In collaboration with the lead consultant provide teachingto the medical and nursing staff during trust induction, and all health care professionals at trust induction and new nurses orientation
Plan and coordinate regular pain management study days or agreed formal training programmes for clinical staff
Devise and audit e learning programmes relating to pain management
Be involved in teaching and lecturing at a local and national level
Ensure adequatetraining on the use of pain management related medical devices.
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