Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS – Advanced Pharmacists
Job Title and Grade: Nurse Colposcopist – Band 7 - NTM00
Trust:Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Pay Rates (hourly):Days: £21.54 Saturdays/Nights: £28 Sundays/Bank Hols: £34.47
*Please note, by applying for this role, you are giving consent for your CV to be shared with Tameside Trust.
Who are NHS Professionals?
NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.
Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts don’t have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 130,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades and specialities, saving the NHS over£70 millioneach year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS.
In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: –
Tameside NHS are passionate, patient focused, positive individuals, who are committed to working together to help people live well, striving to give their people a great work experience where they feel supported and valued.
The Role:
The Nurse Colposcopist Post (Band 7) will take a key role in leading and developing the colposcopy service across the organisation.
Using advanced nursing practice; manage a cohort of patients referred for specialist intervention, care and support.
Demonstrate highly developed and advanced specialist knowledge and skills through innovative practice leading to the development of increasing levels of autonomy.
The post holder will be a core member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT)
EXPERT CLINICAL PRACTICE
1. Provide an evidence-based specialist nursing service, which is responsive to user’s needs, to a cohort of patients referred to the specialist service/MDT. Care will reflect current local protocols and national guidelines and will be delivered through face-to-face consultation or via telephone communication on a day-to-day basis.
2. Manage a cohort of patients and prioritise workload to meet patient and service need.
3. Undertake clinical competencies relevant to this specialist service to demonstrate expertise in extended nursing roles. Assess and effectively manage individual psychological reactions to diagnosis, treatment and associated side effects of including risk of cervical cancer, perception of sexually transmitted disease and future fertility
4. Facilitate and co-ordinate the process of informed choice for patients in the provision of treatment and care. Ensure that individual care plans are understood.
6. Act as a patient advocate to guide treatment and care decisions to ensure that patient’s individual needs are expressed and valued
7. Advise on the complex disease and symptom management for patients within the speciality in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Evaluate response to interventions and advise on the adaptation of management.
8. Work autonomously in the development and delivery of nurse led or parallel clinics in line with National guidance and local service need.
Skills/Responsibilities:
To apply for this post, you will have the following:
NMC Registration
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our bank members who are not clinically exempt from vaccination to get vaccinated.
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