Specialist Nurse: Pain Specialist Nurse in Truro

This is an exciting new opportunity to work as part of the pain specialist nursing team. You will be required to work flexibly across all parts of the pain service, including inpatient, outpatient and x-ray procedures. We are looking for a team player who is genuinely interested in pain and pain management, with excellent communication skills and a desire to develop into this post.

Main duties of the job:

• Providing leadership as a specialist pain nurse to assess patients, plan and implement care, and provide advice and guidance on the management of acute and chronic pain to patients, their carers and staff within all specialties who treat those in pain.
• Managing own caseload, receiving MDT referrals and undertaking consult led and nurse-led inpatient ward rounds.
• Develop and support safe systems for the appropriate management of pain in hospital and on discharge and maintain associated documentation.
• Supporting the implementation of National and Trust Wide policies, guidelines and standards for the management of pain.
• To benchmark and evidence practice through quality audit.
• Providing leadership, education and training, including study days/workshops on pain management to staff, students, patients and carers across the Trust.
• Assisting in the smooth running of outpatient pain clinics and assisting with pain intervention procedures.
• Undertaking delegated responsibility for the department in the absence of the lead specialists in pain.

The post holder will be based in the specialty of pain. The post holder will be an experienced nurse who uses specialist knowledge and skills to support the ongoing provision of the pain service.

About us:

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million. We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School. The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles. Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation. Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is a research active organisation.

Job responsibilities:

To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:

• Identity Checks
• Professional registration and qualification checks
• Employment history and reference checks
• Occupational Health clearance
• Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check
• Right to work in the UK

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• NMC registration for >1 year
• Holds, or working towards, a degree
• Completion or commitment to undertake relevant extended role scope competencies, for the management of multimodal analgesia eg. Epidurals/PCA/local anaesthetics
• Non-medical prescribing qualification or commitment to undertake

Experience:

• Relevant nursing experience within appropriate specialty
• Audit or research experience
• Teaching and education experience

Practical and intellectual skills:

• Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
• Able to develop others within the team
• Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.