Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Job summary

Are you ready to develop your nursing career in the exciting and expanding area of Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD)?

The University Hospital Birmingham is one of eleven Level 1 ACHD Centers in the UK, so being a CNS within our team is a great opportunity to work with a varied and complex group of cardiology patients as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT). As a CNS, you will deliver expert care and advice throughout their lives and see patients in clinics and in-patient environments, as well as providing telephone and e-mail advice to patients, families and other professionals. You will also be responsible for leading a specific area of work within the service and driving service development change and projects. Areas within the ACHD service are: Transition, Medical Management, Intervention, Surgery, Pregnancy, Pulmonary Hypertension, Heart Failure/Advanced Symptoms, Transplantation, and End of Life Care.

In this role you will develop skills such as advanced assessment and prescribing, research and audit, and education. Education and support specific to ACHD will be planned with you to build your knowledge of this area. Continuous professional development is fully supported and encouraged. With previous holders being supported to attend national and international conferences and training days

You will need to be able to work collaboratively as a team, but also automatously and be self-driven and able to prioritise and manage your own time and group of patients.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

We're looking for an enthusiastic and motivated nurse who is passionate about caring for our large and specialised cohort of patients who are at varying stages of their ACHD journey. You will have significant experience of working with patients in a cardiac setting. Previous experience with congenital heart disease patients is desirable, but not essential as training and support will be given.

You will be assessing patients, planning and coordinating care and treatment in a variety of settings in conjunction with the wider team. You will have, or be willing to be trained in, advanced practice skills such as health assessment and prescribing.

This role requires you to adapt to a number of different scenarios and be able to use your clinical knowledge and assessment in a variety of ways, ensuring our patients have access to expert care and advice throughout their life from the CNS team.

Within your allocated areas of responsibility you will implement and innovative change in service delivery, which includes development of guidelines, operational policies and educational materials to ensure safe and streamlined service delivery

You will need excellent communication skills to present to MDT meetings, study sessions, meetings and conferences

You will need to deliver holistic care and work well with patients and their families, building life-long collaborative relationships.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC

Register. ( E) -- ( field dependent upon role )

Evidence of post registration CPD / Post

registration qualification in ( appropriate area of

speciality or professional knowledge

supplemented by specialist experience and short

courses to degree / masters level equivalent

FHEQ Level 6 /7 ( E )

Recognised mentorship course ( E )

Experience

Essential

Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by

the NMC ( E )

Significant years post registration experience as a

Clinical Nurse Specialist at B6 or above in defined

or associated speciality ( E )

Extensive experience of working autonomously at a

specialist level ( E)

Evidence of achievements and career development

in current post and of ongoing professional

development/ competence. ( E )

Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by

theory and CPD relevant to speciality ( E )

Experience and enthusiasm for developing

educational programmes and teaching / assessing

and supervising others in a clinical setting.( E)

Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency

work environment ( E)

Experience of patient service user advocacy role ( E)

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.

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: 

Nichola Pope 

Nichola.Pope@uhb.nhs.uk 

07776464365