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Clinical Nurse Specialist for Orthopaedics Band 7

Posting date:	15 May 2025
Salary:	£51,883.00 to £58,544.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£51883.00 - £58544.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	29 May 2025
Location:	Isleworth, TW7 6AF
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	C9289-PC-24

Summary

Roles and Responsibilities Working autonomously whilst working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, assessing and managing caseload of orthopaedic patients Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professionals to ensure seamless service delivery To be responsible for coordinating the orthopaedic MDT meetings to ensure that all patient cases are discussed and managed within a multi-disciplinary setting. As the specialist nurse member of the MDT to provide expert knowledge and ensure there is adequate psychological support, information and appropriate onward referral of patients to other health care professionals and external agencies, and to audit the service. To be responsible for improving the pathway of care for orthopaedic patients. To act as an advocate for patients and to raise the awareness of the needs of this specific patient group. To set up, coordinate and manage monthly support groups for patients, their carers and relatives. To be responsible for the development and education of nurses within the Trust. To undertake primary research within the field of orthopaedics. To participate and assist in audits. To manage and maintain the National Hip Fracture Database, and associated reports. In conjunction with other nursing staff, to assist in the development of a comprehensive plan of nursing care for individual patients. To be responsible for improving access for screening, investigation, treatment and follow-up of patients. To be responsible for managing a hip fracture follow up clinic with review at 120 days post-surgery telephone or face to face clinic visit according to Royal College of Surgeon guidelines To provide expert nursing and support for all members of the multi-professional team regarding the cart of individuals. To use advanced examination and assessment skills to complete a comprehensive systematic assessment in a defined group of patients. This includes taking a patient history which explores physical, social, emotional, spiritual, psychological and environmental components To order and interpret appropriate laboratory and radiological investigations and respond accordingly To supply and administer treatment and medication in accordance with Trust guidelines To be able to identify signs and symptoms of unstable or abnormal health conditions and responds appropriately. To provide telephone advice to patients, their carers and primary care teams and arrange rapid referral and access to the orthopaedic service as required To participate in discharge planning ensuring that the necessary arrangements and referrals are made to ensure continuity of care and patient/family support To maintain a high profile in the clinical area, acting as a role model for expert clinical nursing practice and for other healthcare professionals To recognise opportunities to develop own scope of practice initiatives To assist in establishing, implementing and monitoring Trust guidelines, policies and protocols To produce, implement and evaluate standards of nursing care and liaise with other orthopaedic CNSs across the Network/UK to implement agreed standards of care and clinical practice To implement and disseminate change through policy and guideline development based on evidence. Education/Leadership: To contribute to formal and informal education provision. To actively participate in the provision of education for patients, carers, relatives and staff groups (e.g. nurses and members of the MDT), and to evaluate education programmes based on evidence based practice in relation to orthopaedics. To work collaboratively on education strategies which support services and orthopaedic service development. To participate in teaching and assessing in clinical practice, including mentoring and preceptorship of nurses undertaking post registration courses in orthopaedics. To discuss with patients any orthopaedic conditions and treatments on their lifestyle, offering health promotion advice, strategies for maintaining quality of life and activities of daily living as well as patient participation in their care. Contributes to the setting up and running of Trust study days. To establish links with other CNSs in order to share and/or learn from examples of best practice. Research/audit/quality: To be proactive in ongoing audit in order to assess effectiveness of service To participate as appropriate in relevant research studies To regularly audit the role of the Orthopaedic Clinical Nurse Specialist, eliciting the views of patients, carers and professionals to ensure a high quality service To critically evaluate research and audit findings and disseminate these findings to clinical practice and members of the MDT as appropriate in order to develop best practice and perform service improvement initiatives. To develop baseline research skills which can be utilised in the advancement of the body of evidence supporting clinical decision making in orthopaedics. To generate questions for research arising out of practice and to collaborate with relevant people in order to investigate these questions thereby acting as a research generator and coordinator. To initiate and undertake primary nursing research and ensure that patients benefit from evidence based practice To attend relevant departmental and Directorate meetings relating to clinical governance and to contribute to the clinical governance agenda. To contribute to the development of orthopaedic nursing care locally and nationally by participating in specific groups and committees PLEASE SEE JD/PS FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE POST