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About
We provide a full range of acute clinical services from Northampton General Hospital and Danetre Hospital in Daventry. We are a designated cancer centre and have recently invested in a number of additional specialist services, including in-patient renal services and interventional cardiology. All elective inpatients and emergency admissions are screened for MRSA. As part of our work to improve clinical outcomes we are taking part in a national patient safety programme and have invested in systems to capture patients views on the service we provide. We understand that sometimes a small change can make a big difference for patients.
Our whole focus is on improving the quality of care given to our patients. We see quality as encompassing the following elements:
Clinically effective services
Safe services
The best possible experience for patients
We also believe in involving others in what we do and celebrating success.
Stoma Care Clinical Nurse
Closed for applications on: 10-May-2024 14:50
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 10-May-2024 14:50
Key details
Location
- Site
- Northampton General Hospital
- Address
- Cliftonville
- Town
- Northmpton
- Postcode
- NN1 5BD
- Major / Minor Region
- Northamptonshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Stoma Care
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Stoma Care Nurse Specialist to lead the stoma care team at Northampton General Hospital.
The successful applicant will be accountable and responsible for the management of the stoma care team ensuring the delivery of high-quality care to stoma patients within both an acute hospital setting, and community setting. The post holder will be required to support their colleagues professional development by providing a supportive learning environment; reduce risks; support the wider organisation; and manage resources and information.
The successful applicant will have experience of working as a Band 6 within the Stoma Care speciality, they will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills along with a thorough understanding of bowel conditions that result in stoma formation and the physiological changes that ensue. The successful applicant will provide psychological support to their patients optimising their recovery and acceptance of the life altering changes.
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The Stoma Care Nurse Specialist (SCNS) post holder will be responsible for delivering an enhanced level of autonomous practice and quality care applying expert knowledge, evidence, and research-based practice to patients in Northampton General Hospital, associated specialist care centres, outpatients and community who have an intestinal or urinary stoma.
The SCNS will be a key provider of specialist information and advice necessary for patients and their relatives/carers to make informed decisions about treatment options.
The SCNS will exercise independence within nurse led clinics and in community settings to provide specialist care and management within the field of stoma care.
The SCNS will work collaboratively with other members of the Stoma Care Team contributing to the management and development of the Stoma Care service ensuring patients experience safe, effective, personalised care.
The SCNS is expected to embrace the Trust’s aim of ‘Dedication to Excellence’ and share our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage.
Working for our organisation
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will lead a team of specialist nurses who are committed to working as ‘one team’ for the benefit of patients. We will offer you a supportive, stimulating working environment, dedicated to delivering high quality patient care and continuing professional development.
Supporting Clinical Excellence:
The postholder will autonomously provide enhanced nursing stoma care to individuals who have or will have a stoma or an ileoanal pouch. This will be achieved by:
Expert communication and utilising diagnostic skills allowing a thorough assessment.
In collaboration with the patient plan a program of care, ensuring physical, social, psychological, and spiritual needs are met.
Empowering the patient through education, including health promotion, to implement the program of care independently. If independence is not possible then ensuring the program of care is implemented safely in conjunction with other nursing and specialist staff and with the co-operation of the patient and their relatives/carers.
Evaluation of the specialist nursing care; clearly and accurately documenting the outcomes of consultations either electronically or handwritten in the paper clinical notes; with letters, communicating the outcomes of outpatient and community consultations, to other appropriate healthcare professionals; and maintaining an accurate record of all interactions with individual patients on the Stoma Care Team database.
The postholder will use their considerable enhanced knowledge and skills to triage their patients either face to face, over the telephone or through email.
The postholders input will ensure patients are comforted that their concerns have been thoroughly reviewed and are either appropriately escalated to other healthcare professionals or reassured with the advice and/or treatment provided.
As an expansion of professional practice, the postholder will use their considerable professional expertise and evidence-based practice to mark the patient’s abdomen pre-operatively to enable the surgeon to place the stoma in the best possible position thereby enhancing the patient’s quality of life. During the procedure the post holder will utilise expert counselling skills due to the psychological and physical impact of the impending surgery.
The postholder will utilise enhanced counselling skills to provide empathetic support for patients and their families/carers who are experiencing a potentially life threatening and life changing illness and who may be distressed by the changes in their body image; utilising excellent communication skills when breaking bad news and explaining treatment options.
The postholder will ensure information conveyed to the patient is in a timely and understandable manner, using different communication methods to clarify understanding.
The postholder will confidently act as an advocate for their patients, assisting them to make informed choices concerning treatment.
The postholder will ensure the patient is discharged safely; the SCNS will have the confidence to halt a discharge in the patients’ best interests if there are concerns regarding stoma management.
The postholder will have a thorough knowledge of stoma products and their uses and will critically evaluate the clinical effectiveness for each individual.
The postholder will monitor patient’s compliance against treatment plans from verbal or written feedback from the patient and through interpretation of information from clinical findings and test results.
The postholder will use their enhanced knowledge to manage high output stomas and fistulas acting as a resource to other healthcare professionals on their management.
The postholder will contribute to the management of complex wounds when requested and if appropriate.
The postholder will work autonomously in nurse led clinics and community reviews for stoma patients.
The postholder will carry out several expanded professional practice roles, including, but not confined to the following:
Colostomy Irrigation
Granuloma Management
Management of a stenosed stoma
Management of rectal stenosis
Administering medicines under PGD
The postholder will work alongside the Colorectal Cancer Multidisciplinary Team, the Gynaecology Multidisciplinary team, the Gastroenterology Multidisciplinary Team, and the Integrated Care System ensuring a seamless service for patients and their families/carers.
The postholder will receive and make direct referrals to and from General Practitioners, Consultants and other specialists and members of the multidisciplinary team.
The postholder will clearly and accurately document the outcomes of consultations either electronically or handwritten in the paper clinical notes; with letters, communicating the outcomes of outpatient and community consultations, to other appropriate healthcare professionals; and maintain an accurate record of all interactions with individual patients on the Stoma Care Team database.
The postholder will be responsible for arranging the prescription for ostomy products, ensuring that the patient has adequate supplies of equipment in the community and understands how to use the products enabling them to carry out treatment plans.
The postholder will be responsible for reviewing and monitoring patient’s use of ostomy products in the community thereby promoting good evidence based practice and avoiding wastage of resources and NHS funds.
Professional Responsibilities:
The postholder will act at all times in accordance with The Code, NMC 2015 and future Codes as published.
The postholder will proactively engage with yearly appraisals.
The postholder will take responsibility for meeting the necessary requirements for revalidation and maintaining their nursing registration.
The postholder is responsible for maintaining their clinical competence through mandatory training, maintaining their own professional and personal growth, and for keeping up to date with developments within the specialty.
The postholder is responsible for interpreting new knowledge in the specialist field to ensure that practice is up to date. They are responsible for using the information to affect change in practice in line with research findings/national guidelines and they are responsible for ensuring the effective dissemination of new knowledge.
The postholder will demonstrate awareness of their responsibilities and accountability for service standards and the further development of the stoma care service.
The postholder will actively engage in the development of policies and clinical guidelines in collaboration with the Directorate Matron, supporting the development of the specialist stoma care nursing service.
The postholder will be prepared to undertake further education training to effectively develop the service.
Management:
The postholder will work collaboratively, with all healthcare professionals while acting as a professional role model.
The postholder will demonstrate insight and personal awareness of management role responsibilities and accountability for service standards and further development.
The postholder will manage and develop the stoma care nursing team to meet the ongoing demands of the patients within the field of stoma care nursing, in accordance with clinical governance and evidence-based practice.
The postholder will ensure effective use of resources, contributing to the management of the stoma care team budget, and proactively looking to identify cost saving measures – with implications for both the acute hospital budget and for the primary care setting.
The postholder will:
demonstrate the ability to support and manage team dynamics, ensuring effective service delivery
provide effective support and education to enable individuals to develop and maintain their potential
The postholder will demonstrate an understanding of strategic development which influence/change practice both locally and nationally and improve patient outcomes.
The postholder will be responsible for:
ensuring that clinical practice meets Information Governance policies
managing e-Rostering effectively
ensuring staff adhere to the trust policy for booking and taking annual leave/time owing
managing HR policies and proactive management of sickness and unauthorised absence
undertaking recruitment and selection of staff to the team
reporting risks and incidents using DATIX
reviewing incidents reported related to Stoma Care for accuracy, verifying the actual level of harm that has occurred
ensuring learning ensues in the event of an incident
Educator:
The postholder will proactively initiate and participate in innovative clinical education and facilitation of other staff members to encourage their development and skills and knowledge – this will be carried out in formal settings in collaboration with the Practice Development Team; by promoting opportunities for health care professionals to shadow the SCNS; and by encouraging health care professionals to engage with ad-hoc teaching opportunities.
The postholder will provide specialist education within various institutions to deliver relevant, research-based teaching sessions ensuring seamless care for their patients in community settings.
The postholder will share evidence of good and innovative practice with other Stoma Care Nurse Specialists across the Association of Stoma Care Nurses UK network, thus contributing to the knowledge base of Stoma Care Nurses.
Research and Development:
The postholder will:
assist in data collection for local research projects.
in collaboration with team members, instigate audits to demonstrate insight into how quality of the Stoma Care Service can be developed to recognised national standards of care.
collect data to demonstrate the activity levels and value of the specialist nursing service
participate in local, national, and international research projects thereby promoting the development of evidence-based care.
At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.
We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence® designated accreditation from the American nurses credentialing centre (ANCC).
We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That’s why we talk about Team NGH. It’s all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills. We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Apply today and join the largest family in Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courageous
- Accountable
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In submitting an application form, you authorise Northampton General Hospital to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record Inter Authority Transfer process should you be appointed to the post.
Due to the high number of applications received we are unable to respond to each application individually. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you have been unsuccessful in this application.
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Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust recognises that staff of differing backgrounds and life experiences enrich our workforce and bring different skills and knowledge. We therefore encourage and welcome applications for our vacancies from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
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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
Educations, Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
- Evidence of having studied and passed specialist stoma care modules at Degree or Masters Level
- Registered Nurse Level 1
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of having successfully undertaken an Advanced Communication course
- Nurse prescriber
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience post registration
- Experience as Stoma Care Nurse at band 6 for a minimum of two years
- Experience of multi-professional working (MDT)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leadership and management
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing support, advice and information to patients and their carers
- Good interpersonal/negotiation skills including the ability to work effectively as part of the MDT
- Experience in teaching knowledge and skills to health care professionals
- Ability to work autonomously and exercise own initiative utilising time management and organisational skills
- Experience in teaching knowledge and skills to patients and their carers
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure whilst recognising own stressors and act accordingly
- To be computer literate
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
- Ability to foster therapeutic relationships while maintaining professional boundaries
- Friendly, Motivated, team worker, Flexible
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lorraine Batty
- Job title
- Stoma Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01604 545570
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