Stoma Clinical Nurse Specialist | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Do you have experience in Stoma care and ready for a new challenge in enhancing your clinical skills further? Are you ready to take the next steps in your career and develop your leadership skills, manage, and lead on quality improvement projects and work together with the MDT to further enhance the service our service provides to patients?

Alongside leadership and development of management skills, with the support of the team and Matron, the post holder will also be responsible for delivering pre and post operative care for patients undergoing life changing surgery whether that be temporary or permanent. The post holder will need to travel to undertake visits to patients in their own homes, on wards and in clinic settings, therefore being a car owner and driver is essential.

As core members of the Colorectal Multi-Disciplinary Team, the Stoma Nurses are committed to working within the framework of the National Cancer Service Guidelines. To initiate contact with patients prior to Stoma surgery in Acute and Primary settings in order that the patients receive support, information and holistic management of care. Thus, ensuring a smooth transition from Acute to Primary Care.

To be clinically accountable and responsible for the provision of an efficient Stoma Care service within the community and hospitals of Southern Derbyshire. To deliver planned holistic support encompassing the physical and psychological aspects of stoma surgery pre and post-operatively, working with approved protocol and guidelines. To maintain effective communication/liaison with medical and nursing staff, pharmacists and other relevant statutory and voluntary agencies, ensuring a comprehensive quality service is delivered to patients. To maintain accurate contemporaneous records of all patients to ensure professional/legal obligations are met.

To act as specialist resource for medical nursing staff within both the Community and Acute settings. Initiate design and implement formal education and training programmes for all nursing levels within the Community and Acute sectors. To raise awareness with regard to Stoma care for medical, nursing and other disciplines as appropriate. On-going follow-up evaluation and monitoring programme. To work within agreed Clinical Governance framework, in regular audits to continuously improve the quality of service and its effectiveness and future development. Ensuring practice is research based. Rotation of the lead is currently a requirement between the Band 7 CNS's.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together. Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.

Key Facts about our Trust:

• Our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients daily
• We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust – over 3,300 per week
• An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day – 6th largest in the country
• Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients daily.
• We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
• We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
• We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day

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