Lead Nurse for Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Service in Coventry

The post holder will be responsible for taking a lead role in supporting the Urology Consultants in delivering the Urology services with a focus on the transformation of services within the newly built Urology Investigation Unit (UIU). The role will also be instrumental in the delivery of the Faster Diagnostic Pathway for Urology patients, ensuring the improvement of the overall patient experience and patient outcomes. The service will be responsive to challenging healthcare needs and advances in practice whilst using service improvement and quality methodology.

The role of the Lead Nurse for Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Service is a high profile, dynamic, proactive, and pioneering role. The Lead Nurse for Urology CNS will be able to make informed decisions and have managerial responsibility for the nursing service delivery across the Urology pathways both benign and cancer. The focus of the role will be to improve overall patient experience and patient outcomes, for patients with speciality related conditions using service improvement and quality methodology and be responsive to challenging healthcare needs and advances in practice.

• Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct.
• Contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
• Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high-quality service within a complex and challenging environment with often competing priorities.
• Responsible for the provision of a high-quality professional nursing service across the Urology services, promoting best practice and implementing a review process that looks at quality and efficiency to meet the needs of patients and service.
• Contributes to development and implementation of policies, procedures, and guidelines across a number of departments, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice.
• Support the Group Director of Operations with the General Manager in ensuring service objectives are met.
• Support the Group Director of Nursing in developing nursing services, deputising as required.
• Responsible for the efficient management of processes (e.g., complaints, training and development, appraisal, and patient flow).
• Utilise information and IT systems to produce accurate and timely workforce and resource data and reports.
• Responsible for development, implementation, and evaluation of projects to improve patient care and service development through the audit cycle, linking to the clinical governance framework and business planning process.
• Utilise extensive understanding of the Urology UIU to deliver specialist nursing to Urology patients at all points of the pathway.
• Undertake direct workload requiring moderate to high physical effort according to patient dependency or staff need.
• Demonstrate through effective leadership the ability to provide professional and emotional support to individuals and groups, e.g., during difficult situations or unexpected events.
• Accountable for maintaining a clean, safe environment ensuring adherence to Trust standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and infection control at all times.
• Responsible for adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy and Divisional objectives designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from clinical and non-clinical risk and known hazards.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description. To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW NHS Trust recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. If invited to interview, you will undertake a Values Based Interview/Assessment. Review the Trust's Values and Behaviours on the right side of this page under the job description. Provide examples from work experience and/or personal life to demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview; any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to minimising the impact on the environment and the future health of the public (e.g., zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages). If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we will ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer. We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents. Depending on your level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate. All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK. We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do. The Trust is recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation. By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.