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The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

About

With a worldwide reputation for innovation and research, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, provides the highest quality hospital care to patients locally, regionally and nationally. The surrounding geographical area includes Shropshire, Wales, Cheshire and the Midlands.

The Orthopaedic hospital mainly treats disorders of the bones, joints and muscles. Surgical areas comprise hip and knee replacement, foot, ankle and lower limb surgery, hand shoulder and upper limb surgery (including hand emergencies), spinal disorders, bone tumour and sports injury surgery. We host the regional centres for Spinal Injuries at the Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries and the Regional Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Service. Additionally we treat people with metabolic disorders (including osteoporosis) and those with inflammatory arthritis. We have a centre for children and provide specialist surgery and treatment for children and adolescents with orthopaedic or disorders affecting muscular development. The Trust also provides services for private patients within Ludlow Unit.

Our Values are:

Friendly
patients are always put at ease and made welcome

Excellence
the care we deliver has great outcomes for patients

Caring
we put the patient first and are considerate of their needs

Professional
we apply high professional standards to our work

Respect
for our patients and each other

Contact

Address: Robert & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital; Gobowen; Oswestry; Shropshire; SY10 7AG
Contact Number: 01691 404000

Find out more

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Ref: 224-PA20240301436 Vacancy ID: 6185327

Rheumatology Clinical Nurse Specialist

Closed for applications on: 9-May-2024 09:42

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 9-May-2024 09:42

Location

Site: The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Gobowen
Town: Oswestry, Shropshire
Postcode: SY10 7AG
Major / Minor Region: Shropshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 6)

Specialty

Main area: Rheumatology

Here at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Trust, we are very proud of our reputation for providing outstanding care to our patients. Our continued success is accomplished through the skills and expertise of our staff, which is underpinned by our values: Friendly, Caring, Excellence, Professional and Respect. If your values align to ours, and you would like to join us in aspiring to deliver world class patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main purpose of the post is to provide a rheumatology service by:

Providing independent patient clinics alongside the consultants.
Providing advice and support to colleagues, patients and carers.
Participating in the operation of a specialist nurse led telephone advice line for patients

Duties and Responsibilities

1. To provide a specialist nurse service for people with rheumatology conditions.

2. To assist in the development of specialist nursing assessment, evidence-based intervention, advice and support for clients with rheumatology conditions.

3. To participate in nurse clinics, working in parallel with consultant clinics, seeing follow up patients according to agreed written protocols, treating to target and working within agreed competencies and within a defined development plan. Clinics are held at RJAH (service hub)
and from other outreach sites.

4. To assess patients with rheumatoid/Inflammatory arthritis using the DAS 28/PSARC score to assess suitability for and response to anti TNF therapy.

5. To complete funding applications for anti TNF treatment in line with commissioning guidelines.

6. To link with the nursing staff on Sheldon ward, where there are 2-4 Rheumatology beds and the specialist nurses who deliver the day case infusion service, to provide advice and support regarding patient management.

7. To act as a resource for patients and other professionals providing advice, support and information through a patient telephone advice line. The purpose of the telephone advice line is to enable the nurses to provide support for patients/ Carers / GP’s, / other specialists/
Practice and District nurses who may have queries regarding symptoms and treatment. The post holder will then liaise with the appropriate consultant to provide management advice to the patient. This will be in line with the standard operating procedure for telephone advice line.

8. To assist in providing supportive education in rheumatology related issues with colleagues, patients and their carers.

9. To promote best practice in line with relevant quality care standards and NICE guidance.

10. To work with the multi-disciplinary team of consultants, nurses, HCAs, therapists, pharmacist, dietitian, and administrative staff. To attend the monthly county rheumatology meetings and specialist nurse meetings.

11. To refer patients to other members of the MDT as appropriate and to community support service as required.

12. Maintain patient records to ensure information is accurate and up to date and complies with professional standards and the Data Protection Act.

13. Undertake patient satisfaction surveys and participates in clinical audit to fulfil the requirements of the organisation and the Rheumatology unit.

14. To participate in service improvement initiatives.

The post holder will be expected to cover 4 clinics a week (if working full time) across multiple sites. The job role will include helping to manage the help and advice line, monitoring of bloods as part of
DMARD monitoring, drug education, pre-treatment screening, drug education and drug funding applications. The post holder will also be expected to provide support and advice to patients/ carers
and other professionals.

Important

Your application form must include a complete record of your employment history. Please explain any gaps in your employment/education history and reasons for these gaps. The Trust maintains the right to withdraw an employment offer or terminate employment if it is later found that an application for employment contained false, mis-leading or inaccurate information. For the avoidance of doubt this would include omissions of previous periods of employment or reasons given for gaps in employment.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.

For Information

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHSFT embraces diversity, equality and inclusion and our aim is to be diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability and ethnicity.

We are committed to ensuring disabled workers aren’t disadvantaged when applying for and doing their jobs and offer an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised post. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria

First level registered Nurse

Desirable criteria

Clinical Post Graduate training (such as a rheumatology or orthopaedic post graduate course, nurse prescribing)

Experience

Essential criteria

Proven post graduate experience in a nursing role
Clinical experience of working with adults with rheumatology conditions
Experience of working with service users to develop practice
Experience of treatment evaluation or audit

Desirable criteria

Experience working in an out-patient setting
Participation in service improvement activities

Skills & Competencies

Essential criteria

Commitment to improve and maintain own development and skills and standard of care with evidence of on-going professional development
Good communication skills
Able to prioritise own workload
Good team working, supporting each other to deliver the service
Able to work on own initiative
Ability to build constructive relationships with empathy
Ability to treat users with respect and dignity, adopting a culturally sensitive approach which considers the needs of the whole person
Ability to operate effectively with associated agencies
Able to use IT systems such as Microsoft applications

Desirable criteria

Presentation and teaching skills

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Nicky Drury
Job title: Rheumatology Nurse Specialist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01691 404432
Additional information: Alternatively contact Lucy Richmond, Rheumatology Nurse specialist at [email protected]