Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Specialist Nurse
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 26 July 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7257153/249-7257153 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
OPAT Specialist Nurse Band 6
This role is offered on a part time basis of 20 hours per week, this means that candidates interested in working part time are encouraged to apply and will receive a salary on a pro rata basis.
The post holder will be a member of the OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy) Service specialist nurse team and work as an autonomous professional clinical practitioner with responsibility for providing specialist clinical services.
The post holder will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams across the Trust to provide a timely and high quality service to patients who meet the criteria for safe and effective management of patients who are discharged on IV antimicrobials.
The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GWH) is an ambitious organisation, motivated to provide consistently high quality services to our patients. Our staff report that our organisation is a friendly and supportive one to work within and we currently hold some of the highest levels of staff engagement within the region.
The post holder will be responsible for providing high standards of individualised patient centered care, demonstrating autonomous practice and clinical expert in the assessment of patients and their suitability of OPAT. Act as a role model and a resource for medical. nursing and patients for advice on IV antimicrobials. Working alongside all members of the multidisciplinary team, engaging in MDTS and attending ward rounds. The post holder will contribute to the continuous development of the service, keeping up to date with current research findings, as well as contributing to clinical governance, clinical audit and data collection.
Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
1. To support, by demonstrating exemplar nursing practice and the implementation of evidence-based care, the provision of a high standard of individualised patient care and experience, upholding the Trust Nursing Strategy which includes the 6Cs.
2. Be a responsible autonomous specialist nurse and role model in the specialty of OPAT and a resource for medical, nursing personnel and patients requiring advice on the administration of IV Antimicrobials
3. Responsible for ensuring own knowledge and compliance of appropriate NMC standards and Trust professional guidelines and that these are applied to practice, including NMC Revalidation.
4. To liaise with other members of management and clinical staff both within the Trust and other healthcare providers to ensure good communication lines and seamless patient care
5. Undertake and be involved in the coordination, management, development and smooth operation of the OPAT service within the Trust and to Trust staff.
6. Exercise responsibility and accountability for the assessment of patients in order to select potential OPAT patients, demonstrating a senior level of autonomy as a practitioner and clinical expert.
7. Assess, potentially highly complex patients, planning, implementing and reviewing care within the hospital environment, both in-patient and out-patient, community or other settings. Assess and refer patients for venous catheterisation as appropriate.
8. Assesses, plans and implements specialist care packages through shared decision making with patient and carer.
9. Provide and receive highly complex and/or highly sensitive patient/staff related information and ensure this is interpreted and shared, where required, in order to ensure seamless and effective care, in line with rules of information governance.
10. Refers to other practitioners when health outcomes or risks and needs are beyond own competence and scope of practice.
Please see attached Job description/personal specification
This advert closes on Thursday 3 Jul 2025
OPAT Specialist Nurse Band 6
This role is offered on a part time basis of 20 hours per week, this means that candidates interested in working part time are encouraged to apply and will receive a salary on a pro rata basis.
The post holder will be a member of the OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy) Service specialist nurse team and work as an autonomous professional clinical practitioner with responsibility for providing specialist clinical services.
The post holder will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams across the Trust to provide a timely and high quality service to patients who meet the criteria for safe and effective management of patients who are discharged on IV antimicrobials.
The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GWH) is an ambitious organisation, motivated to provide consistently high quality services to our patients. Our staff report that our organisation is a friendly and supportive one to work within and we currently hold some of the highest levels of staff engagement within the region.
The post holder will be responsible for providing high standards of individualised patient centered care, demonstrating autonomous practice and clinical expert in the assessment of patients and their suitability of OPAT. Act as a role model and a resource for medical. nursing and patients for advice on IV antimicrobials. Working alongside all members of the multidisciplinary team, engaging in MDTS and attending ward rounds. The post holder will contribute to the continuous development of the service, keeping up to date with current research findings, as well as contributing to clinical governance, clinical audit and data collection.
Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
1. To support, by demonstrating exemplar nursing practice and the implementation of evidence-based care, the provision of a high standard of individualised patient care and experience, upholding the Trust Nursing Strategy which includes the 6Cs.
2. Be a responsible autonomous specialist nurse and role model in the specialty of OPAT and a resource for medical, nursing personnel and patients requiring advice on the administration of IV Antimicrobials
3. Responsible for ensuring own knowledge and compliance of appropriate NMC standards and Trust professional guidelines and that these are applied to practice, including NMC Revalidation.
4. To liaise with other members of management and clinical staff both within the Trust and other healthcare providers to ensure good communication lines and seamless patient care
5. Undertake and be involved in the coordination, management, development and smooth operation of the OPAT service within the Trust and to Trust staff.
6. Exercise responsibility and accountability for the assessment of patients in order to select potential OPAT patients, demonstrating a senior level of autonomy as a practitioner and clinical expert.
7. Assess, potentially highly complex patients, planning, implementing and reviewing care within the hospital environment, both in-patient and out-patient, community or other settings. Assess and refer patients for venous catheterisation as appropriate.
8. Assesses, plans and implements specialist care packages through shared decision making with patient and carer.
9. Provide and receive highly complex and/or highly sensitive patient/staff related information and ensure this is interpreted and shared, where required, in order to ensure seamless and effective care, in line with rules of information governance.
10. Refers to other practitioners when health outcomes or risks and needs are beyond own competence and scope of practice.
Please see attached Job description/personal specification
This advert closes on Thursday 3 Jul 2025
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