Vascular Access Practitioner | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	25 April 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	25 May 2025
Location:	King's Lynn, PE30 4ET
Company:	Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7114161/426-756-25EG

Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our vascular access specialist team as a band 6 practitioner. You will be required to have relevant post registration experience within an acute setting and have a keen interest in vascular access.

You will be required to liaise with other multi-disciplinary professionals to ensure a highly effective, efficient and consistent approach to the delivery of patient care.

Training will be provided both in-house and by an external specialist where you will learn to place cannulas, midlines & PICCs using Ultrasound/ECG.

The main focus of the role is planning, assessing and maintenance of vascular access devices for patients and requires a quality improvement focus in addition to the expected skills and knowledge set out in the Job Description.

You will work as part of the QEHKL vascular access team in the delivery and care of both elective and emergency vascular access requests, including ultrasound guided cannulation, midline and PICC line insertion.

Clinical audit is core to the monitoring of service standards and delivery. You will be proactive in meeting the educational and training needs of patient and nursing staff.

To work as part of the QEHKL vascular access team in the delivery and care of both elective and emergency vascular access requests, including ultrasound guided cannulation, midline and PICC line insertion.

This includes planning, assessing and maintenance of vascular access devices for patients in collaborationwith other multi-disciplinary professionals to ensure a highly effective, efficient and consistent approach to the delivery of patient care.

This will be achieved through clinical practice, management, education, research and audit and professional activities taking into account directorate, corporate, and national policy and within the clinical governance framework.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details regarding this role.

This vacancy is for Registered Nurses with full NMC registration in the UK. If you are an internationally trained nurse that has not passed their OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) you will not be considered for this role and will be automatically rejected, so please do not apply.


This advert closes on Friday 9 May 2025