Nurse Hysteroscopist - Worcester, United Kingdom - Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Description

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen within the Gynaecology nursingteam at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust for a Nurse Hysteroscopist towork as part of our friendly Ambulatory Gynaecology Team based at The AlexandraHospital, Redditch.

This is an exciting post for aperson that is passionate about Womens Health. We are looking for anindividual who is experienced as a Nurse Hysteroscopist, working autonomouslyin all aspects of an outpatient hysteroscopy service. This is an ideal role if you are keen toprovide high standards of care, develop services and enhance and expand yourexisting skills. The role will positively impact on the cancerdiagnosis targets. You will bring leadership within your sphere of thenursing team in order to provide clinically excellent, compassionate care. Youmust have excellent communication skills to engage with patients and colleaguesat all levels.

Gynaecology at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trustoffers services across our three hospital sites; Worcestershire Royal Hospital,Kidderminster Treatment Centre and The Alexandra Hospital, Redditch. Wecomprise of the Womens Health Unit, Emergency Gynaecology Assessment Unit andEarly Pregnancy Assessment Unit,Gynaecology sub-specialty clinics and inpatient care. This is a countywide role.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Liz Newton(Matron for Breast and Gynaecology Services)on Ext 39210 or email:

Main duties of the job

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

Key Duties:

As an autonomous practitioner, provide assessment, planning, investigations, diagnosis and treatment for women requiring outpatient hysteroscopy, within own competence, skill and qualifications

Carry out diagnostic and therapeutic outpatient hysteroscopy procedure as an autonomous practitioner within own competence, skill and qualifications

Working as an autonomous practitioner, plan and organise workload effectively and be accountable for the quality and standard of work performed

Provide a high level of clinical expertise and leadership in the unit and ensure the delivery of patient care in accordance with national and local guidelines, policy and procedures ensuring best standards of practice, the NMC code

Support both medical and nursing staff in the delivery of high quality care that is safe, clinically effective and takes into account the patient experience

Contribute to the formulation of patient information leaflets and clinical/departmental guidelines

Act as a professional role model to all staff

Be a contact/resource for GPs and other healthcare professionals

Communication and Relationships

Take delegated and non-delegated consent for investigations, procedures and treatments within own sphere of competence and adhering to local guidelines

Liaise with the multi-disciplinary team both within the organisation and with outside stakeholders, to ensure high standards of care are maintained.

Communicate proactively with all staff on the clinical condition and treatment/discharge plans of patients and ensures accurate and contemporaneous nursing records are maintained

Ensure excellent communication between patients, their relatives/carers, the multi-disciplinary team and GPs

Ensure high standards of written and verbal advice are available to patients, relatives and carers

Actively involve patients, relatives and carers in investigation/treatment choices

Ensure the unit works collaboratively with other departments, in particular the ultrasound scan department

Acts as a role model/ ambassador for the organisation and the nursing profession

Ensure clinic outcomes are recorded and waiting list forms/referrals are processed in keeping with local procedures

Education and Training

Continually develop specialist knowledge, advanced practical skills and competence by regularly undertaking literature reviews, attending BSGE scientific meetings, adhering to current and changing BSGE requirements, and keeping up to date with RGOG guidelines and trends ensuring delivery of best evidence based practice

Attend relevant courses/conferences/lectures to keep up to date with current best practice standards and recommendations, as required by the needs of the service/role and meet the Trust mandatory training requirements

Utilise and disseminate new knowledge and skills appropriately

Be involved in the training of medical staff, general practitioners, community gynaecologists and qualified nurses in outpatient hysteroscopy and related procedures eg. vaginal examination, passing speculum, endometrial biopsies, diagnostic and therapeutic hysteroscopy procedures including endometrial polypectomy

Teach undergraduate medical and nursing students in the management of abnormal uterine bleeding

Be actively involved in internal/external, formal/informal teaching for health care professionals, patients and their relatives/carers

Perform clinical and non-clinical audit, patient satisfaction surveys and development of the service

Be involved in research pertaining to the PMB and OPH service/ Nurse Hysteroscopist role

Be actively involved in looking for quality improvement projects pertaining to the PMB and OPH service

Practice & Proffesional Development:

Ensure nursing practice is in keeping with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code and the NHS values

Receive and provide regular clinical supervision with and for other nursing staff using the reflective practice process

Keep up to date with professional issues and ensure they are reflected in practice

Develop links and collaborate with other health care professionals to share good practice and innovations with colleagues locally, regionally and nationally

Be fully conversant and compliant with all relevant Trust policies

To participate in personal objective setting and review, including the creation of a personal development plan at annual performance review.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

Desirable

Professional

Essential

Desirable

Other Job Requirements

Essential