Clinical Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS10 5NB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9339-25-0468 |
Summary
Generic To provide highly specialist nursing advice underpinned by theory and experience to support patients and their families/carers To plan, develop, improve and promote the service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost effective care To act as an autonomous practitioner, independently planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care achieved through systematic and holistic assessment, clinical examination skills, personalised care planning and independent onwards referral and discharge to primary care team To provide patients and staff with highly developed specialist advice to manage complex symptoms To develop and share expertise within the multidisciplinary team To develop and utilize the skills and expertise to act as a resource in the care of patients needs, ensuring an optimum level of service to patients and their carers To work closely with community and network, other hospital and community staff to ensure an effective seamless service To deploy high level skills in order to provide effective communication systems of support for patients To develop and utilize the skills needed to embed patient and public involvement within the sphere of specialist nursing practice To ensure that all patients and families are aware of all treatment options, including clinical trials To transcribe radiology requests on ICE following successful completion of the IR(M)E training course To work as patient advocate, to help negotiate the patient journey and ensure optimum care is provided to each patient To nurture and maintain links with other health care agencies and and organisations providing support and information to patients To adhere to and promote in others the importance of infection control guidelines and procedures To act as a positive role model for nurses in the hospital through the demonstration of excellent communication and clinical skills To expertly deliver highly complex sensitive condition related information to patients and relatives To provide specialist support and advice in clinical areas, wards and outpatients, to optimise quality improvement opportunities To analyse and respond to challenging and complex clinical situations utilising highly developed specialist knowledge and analytical and judgemental skills to assess a range of options to formulate solutions and recommendations To act as a change agent, using skills that will motivate and reassure staff through negotiation and training, to facilitate the change process Specific requirements of the post: Provide education and support for patients receiving oral and/or parenteral chemotherapy including consent for treatment Use of protocols, specialist knowledge and examination skills to assess patients in follow-up and pre-chemotherapy clinics Authorisation of blood products following successful completion of National Blood Service training course Provide telephone support for haematology cancer patients before, during and after chemotherapy treatment Perform bone marrow biopsies following successful completion of programme of training Undertake non-medical prescribing following successful completion of programme of training. Education To lead on and participate in the planning and delivery of formal and informal specialist education programmes for patients, carers and all staff To lead on and participate in education forums locally To ensure that professional knowledge and practice is regularly updated To take personal responsibility for life-long learning and personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal and Knowledge and Skills Framework Research and Audit To collate and record quantitative and qualitative data that provides evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality, through audit and research To regularly lead on and participate in clinical audit and research To promote a culture of evidence based practice To be involved with health promotion Management and Leadership To lead on policy and service development within a multidisciplinary team context To lead on the development and implementation of protocols for specialist area of work and for the wider healthcare community served by North Bristol Trust To be responsible for the gathering, analysis and evaluation of patient and other feedback to inform ongoing improvement in the patient experience in specialist area To provide professional leadership for band 6 specialist nurses and be a role model in relation to nursing in specialist area To be responsible for developing and coordinating job plans in order to maximise team effectiveness and efficiency To plan the provision of day to day organisational tasks for self and others To manage a highly complex caseload based on flexible principles, priorities and the care needs of patients To lead on responding to complaints and queries, and have a working awareness of the North Bristol's NHS Trust's complaints procedure To maintain accurate and concise records that produce statistical data for the purpose of evaluation and development of the service To coordinate the collection of information and data required for annual reports and national peer review in collaboration with cancer services To keep accurate and up to date patient records To be responsible for the effective, efficient and safe use, maintenance and storage of resources and equipment used in the performance of the role