Clinical Nurse Specialist

Overview

The post will incorporate the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) role dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research, whilst using your skills and expertise in the management of patients with benign HPB conditions.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be required to liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialized patient care across professional boundaries. You will develop and undertake nurse-led clinics for patients with complex benign HPB conditions including benign biliary strictures, chronic and gallstone pancreatitis, pancreatic cyst surveillance and complex gall bladder polyps and gall stones, and be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating nurse-led clinics.

You will work with the support of the lead nurse and consultants to deliver specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and based on principles that are research based and which enhance the quality of patient care, for example with acute pancreatitis referrals. You will contribute to the facilitation of the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for patients with benign HPB conditions.

You will contribute to training and education within the specialist area. You will promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through reviewing the evidence base and embedding this in practice through engagement in research activities. You will participate in the development of staff within the multidisciplinary team providing support, advice, formal and informal education.

You should act as a visible role model.

• Liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in delivering specialised patient care across professional boundaries.
• Develop and undertake nurse-led clinics for patients with complex benign HPB conditions and ensure high standards of nursing care through planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating these clinics.
• Collaborate with the lead nurse and consultants to deliver clinically appropriate care based on research-based principles, including referrals for acute pancreatitis where applicable.
• Contribute to planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for benign HPB conditions.
• Contribute to training and education within the specialist area.
• Promote innovative and progressive approaches to improving patient care by reviewing the evidence base and embedding it into practice through research activities.
• Support the development of staff within the multidisciplinary team, providing formal and informal education; act as a visible role model.

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