ENT Clinical Nurse Practitioner Lead

at  Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for Lead ENT CNP within the ENT Outpatients and the ENT emergency pathway. The successful candidate will join a well-established enthusiastic, friendly multidisciplinary and multi professional team. There is a highly motivated group of band 6 nurses who have completed nurse –led packages to manage epistaxis, otitis externa, performing nasoendoscopy and tonsillitis. Some have also completed training to request scans and prescribe. This development in competencies has been overseen by mentorship from the ENT consultant body and ENT Outpatient team.
A significant part of this role is about building quality assurance to allow more clinical autonomy as well as to lead some of the training elements for the roles through nurse-led education programs in conjunction with Consultant colleagues.
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
In addition to the summary below you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.
Alongside the whole Nurse Practitioner Team, to lead a specialist nursing service, maintaining and developing a high quality service
To take overall responsibility for the care of a caseload/list of patients requiring specialist nursing knowledge and care, particularly within the Emergency Pathway

Please refer the Job description for details