The Associate Pain Specialist Nurse will work alongside the Lead Nurse for Pain Management and Pain Consultants, gaining specialist experience in pain management while helping in the provision of expert nursing interventions for patients and contributing towards the development and implementation of inpatient pain services in line with national priorities.
The team provides five-days a week service to inpatient patients at Whittington Hospital including post-operative patients, trauma patients and a wide range of patients having acute and acute on chronic pain. The team works in close co-operation with, and supports other clinical, nursing, medical and managerial colleagues. You will ensure effective communication throughout the Trust to develop and build working relationships with the MDT to facilitate high quality ‘best practice’ and evidence-based innovative care and management of patients with pain.
You will be responsible for contributing towards the day-to-day operational delivery of the Pain Services; therefore, you are expected to provide a visible, reliable and accessible leadership presence to whom patients and staff can turn for assistance, expert advice and support. Demonstrate good time management and organisational skills to deliver a flexible service that responds appropriately to unpredictable needs in line with professional codes of conduct and local policies and guidelines.
§ Develop knowledge of the different therapeutic interventions and strategies that can be utilised in the management of acute and/or chronic pain conditions and teach patients and relatives about their condition, treatment, and self-help options.
§ Carry a caseload and be responsible for providing specialist clinical advice and support to, and liaising with staff, patients and carers.
§ Contribute to the management of inpatient pain referrals received daily from different sources to ensure that patients are reviewed in a timely manner.
§ Make evidence-based, appropriate, and timely decisions about the management of patient care, by conducting assessment, planning and provision of specialist nursing advice and carrying out specialist nursing procedures in line with professional codes of conduct and local policies and guidelines within the wards, A&E and Acute Ambulatory Care, liaising with senior colleagues as required.
§ Will be required to work in a clinical role alongside the pain team and will, in collaboration with the other clinical nurse specialists, train nursing staff in the care of patient and use of different pain management devices such as PCA, epidural analgesia, rectus sheath and other continuous nerve block infusions.
§ Improve and maintain standards of care within the specialty by clinical supervision and self-reflection, using this to improve care and practice.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Please see attached documentation for full job description which outlines the details of the role and responsibilities.
If you are interested in the role and believe you hold the qualities we require, then apply today! We look forward to receiving your application.
