Consultant Nurse-Urgent Treatment Centre

at  East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a Consultant Nurse-Urgent Treatment Centre who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The post holder will work across the UEC, Emergency department (ED)and Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) , Assessment Areas and SDEC service) within ENHT maintaining a high level of clinical presence and providing highly specialised professional advice, consultancy, clinical expertise and leadership to patients, carers and Trust staff.
The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced skills and competencies to directly influence the delivery of programmes of care across the full range of UEC. A significant element of the role will be developing advanced practice and ensuring robust clinical governance frameworks for autonomous practice within UEC services.
The post holder will initiate research in the field of UEC to ensure that evidence-based practice is inherent in all aspects of service delivery. They will maintain clinical excellence through the dissemination of knowledge across the Trust, partnership groups/organisations and externally as appropriate. The post holder will liaise with partner Universities and Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) and will contribute to joint projects relevant to autonomous practice in this field.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
The Consultant Nurse will demonstrate advanced knowledge and expertise in practice functions including clinical history taking, physical assessment and investigation interpretation relevant to role.
Demonstrate advanced knowledge and expertise in clinical decision-making skills in referring patients for further tests, investigations and interpreting results.
Work with the ENPs ANP, ACP, Matron/s and the management team to provide clinical governance leadership for advanced practice to provide assurance that the service meets national guidelines and standards of performance; use audit and evaluation of services to provide evidence base for the redesign and transformation of services.
Be an innovator, capable of pioneering new approaches to enhance practice.
Be a positive role model, demonstrating high quality, person-centred care.
Act as a change agent, challenging existing practice to improve quality of care.
Work as an autonomous practitioner maintaining an identified caseload pertinent to service needs and priorities.
Use highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory (at master’s level) and experience, in day-to-day clinical practice.
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 plus dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

WE RUN THE FOLLOWING HOSPITALS:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
  We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
  We understand that finding & starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
  We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.
  Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen & consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
  Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role
  Please note the interview date is provisional and may change

Please refer the Job description for details