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Lead Practitioner/Nurse: Coronial Sudden Unexpected Death Coordinator

Job details
Posting date: 10 September 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £53,755 - £60,504 pa pro rata
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 11 October 2024
Location: Bristol, BS2 8HW
Company: University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6630721/387-SPS-3934-MF

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Summary

A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.


To help lead our regional GMSA inherited cardiac conditions work, focusing on sudden death families. The successful candidate would work with the established BHF funded regional group and clinicians and pathologists across the sector to improve the associated cardiovascular pathways. As well as helping to coordinate the clinical ICC units, the project would also involve working with coroners, pathologists, and intensive care units where patients with aborted sudden cardiac death tend to be cared for. The job is a 12-month post to start with, but ongoing funding streams will be explored. The role will be to help coordinate effective pathways within the sector by working with the coronial system, national charities and the clinicians involved in the work across the sector (cardiac and intensive care teams, genetic consultants, nurses, and counsellors

· Establishing and developing relationships with key stakeholders involved in the management of the Inherited Cardiac Conditions service both internally and externally. Helping implementation across multidisciplinary services across multiple Trusts in a wide geography.

· Being recognised as an expert in their field, holding additional specialist knowledge and experience.

· Providing leadership, purpose, and vision in clinical practice for the professional team and peers and supporting hub and spoke working across the GMSA.

· Actively disseminating best practice through presentations and participating in nursing research and national working parties.

· Assisting in collation, interpretation, and communication of complex and sensitive data.

· Practicing as an autonomous clinician within the multi-professional team maintaining clinical skills

· Assisting the bereaved families journey, signposting and informing family members along the way. An ability to listen and be empathetic to recently bereaved in tragic circumstances.

· Ensuring effective Standard Operating Procedures are in place for delivery of service, requiring updating or contributing to their creation.

· Providing Clinical Supervision for members of the team, including supporting the development of Inherited Cardiac Conditions nurse competencies.

· Pathway design and implementation,

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.


This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Sep 2024

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