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Trainee Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pain Management
Posting date: | 22 August 2024 |
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Salary: | £44,806.00 to £53,134.00 per year |
Additional salary information: | £44806.00 - £53134.00 a year |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 05 September 2024 |
Location: | London, SE5 9RS |
Company: | NHS Jobs |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | C9213-24-0850 |
Summary
Clinical Practice 1. Contribute to the provision of individualised pain management by providing assessment, planning, evaluation, and support for patients with complex health-care needs. 2. Manage, with support, your own patient caseload, working collaboratively with the Pain Team to ensure your patients have a pain management plan which is accurately documented in thepatients medical records. Follow-up your patients as clinically indicated. 3. Provide pain management advice, collaborating and negotiating with other healthcare professionals to improve pain management for patients. 4. Educate clinical staff in the principles of effective pain management. Train and support clinical staff in the safe and effective use of advanced pain management techniques including patient controlled analgesia, epidural infusions and regional infusions. 5. Act as a role model for clinical staff within the Trust and externally. Be visible and approachable in clinical areas. 6. Actively contribute to multi-professional approaches to pain management for patients referred to the pain service. 7. Communicate clearly with patients and their carers, keeping in mind the sensitive and complex nature of their pain management needs. 8. Utilise good communication skills to communicate clearly and effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), other staff, departments, and outside organisations. 9. Contribute to the development of pain service policies, ensuring that they reflect current evidence-based practice. Participate in the validation and implementation of pain service guidelines and policies. 10. Participate in the development of strategies to enhance the standard of pain management within the Trust, whilst ensuring equity of access to the service. 11. Participate in the provision of nurse-led outpatient pain clinics and interventions. 12. Actively seek feedback from service users to evaluate their experience of the current service and make suggestions for service improvement. 13. Recognise your own clinical limitations, and seek advice from senior team members, or other professionals as needed. 14. Be professionally accountable, make appropriate clinical decisions and maintain contemporaneous records as an autonomous practitioner. 15. Ensure that the Trust values of kindness, respect and teamwork are evident in your clinical practice and your interactions with others.