Lead Vascular Nurse

at  Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Are you ready for the next exciting step in your Nursing career? If so, this could be just the job for you.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to join our experienced, highly skilled Vascular Team as Lead Vascular Nurse
We pride ourselves on providing the best possible experience to our patients and their families, ensuring clinical excellence and compassionate, thoughtful care at all times.
Our team would welcome a forward thinking, dynamic Nurse who is committed to ensuring our patients receive only the very best in evidence based Nursing care. The successful candidate will display excellent leadership and communication skills and be able to confidently liaise with all partners to ensure the safe, timely care of our patients.
Our vascular nurse specialist team cover a variety of demands including outpatient clinics, inpatient support, wound review clinics and AAA nurse assessment clinics to name just a few.

• Lead specialist nursing care, maintaining and developing a quality service, including managing the team’s business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management and autonomously take overall responsibility for the care of a caseload of patients
  Develop and provide specialist training across functional boundaries as required and to develop and implement an educational programme for new members of the CNP team
  Maintain a management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the Vascular Care Team.
  Lead in relevant internal and external working groups/projects services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise
  Present information and explain highly complex issues to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, where understanding of the topic is sometimes limited.
  Liaise with other team leaders to share best practice
  Prescribe and review medications (as an independent prescriber) for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patient need, and in accordance with best/evidence based practice and local and national policies, and within the role’s scope of practice and legal frameworks
  Integrate both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment in patient care/management plans.
  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.
  Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy