Job summary
- Main area
- Neurosurgery
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 30 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered)
- Job ref
- 180-D-247460
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division D
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 06/01/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Nurse – Hydrocephalus and CSF Dynamics Disorders
Band 8b
Job overview
You will work as an independent Consultant Nurse employing a high degree of autonomy, to deliver a comprehensive service to patients with hydrocephalus and disorders of Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) dynamics, with a particular focus on the management of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH).
Following the establishment of a multidisciplinary service for the management of normal pressure hydrocephalus, the postholder will form part of a team consisting of neurosurgeons, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, neuropsychologists, infusion technicians and a service co-ordinator.
The post is structured around the four core functions of Consultant Practice as set out in the multi-professional consultant-level practice capability and impact framework, which include: (i) Expert practice, (ii)
Strategic and enabling leadership, (iii) Learning, developing, and improving across the system, and (iv) Innovation and research.
As part of their role, youwill provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues, provide education and training to other staff and students, ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence within the hydrocephalus service, and undertake practice innovation and research within their specialist area.
Main duties of the job
Manage and lead a specialist service with responsibility for ensuring high quality, cost-effective healthcare or Manage and lead a workforce of specialist nurses (i.e. across a Di-vision)
Responsible for the assessment, planning, diagnosis im-plementation and evaluation of care, as an autonomous practitioner with highly specialist
Be involved in the strategic review of clinical services as appropriate
Be responsible for implementing a clearly defined inte-grated approach to patient care encompassing new treat-ments and evidence based care
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
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This vacancy will close at midnight on 26 December 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 6 January 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered professional with Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Masters degree in relevant health care area.
- Up-to-date professional portfolio demonstrating evidence of personal and professional development.
- Leadership course.
Desirable criteria
- PhD/Professional Doctorate/DPhil
- Teaching qualification
- Quality Improvement qualification
- Coaching qualification
- After Action Review facilitator training
- Independent prescriber accreditation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post-registration experience with relevant clinical field; recent senior experience in the field.
- Evidence of significant effective leadership in a senior clinical position.
- Line management experience.
- Demonstrable experience of leading service and/or quality improvement
- Demonstrable experience of clinical teaching.
- A track record of scholarship and publication, sufficient to have inspired recognition as an expert and innovator in the field.
- Demonstrable experience of innovation and research, including experience of clinical research delivery.
- Experience of multidisciplinary working.
- Current experience as professional representative/ advisor on regional/national bodies.
- Significant experience in developing polices and standard operational procedures.
- Significant experience of quality governance principles, specifically: risk; benchmarking against standards; continuous improvement.
- Experience of lead author for reports for governance purposes, for both internal and external requirements.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of relevant specialist clinical knowledge.
- Knowledge of Trust and system partners.
- Sound knowledge of professional registration governing practice.
- Evidence of understanding of trust values in relation to leadership behaviours and national leadership models.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the principles of high reliability organisations and the leadership responsibility to create and sustain a mature patient safety culture
Skills
Essential criteria
- Proficiency in clinical assessment and CSF-related procedures, including lumbar puncture, reservoir taps, and performing CSF infusion studies
- Evidence of leading successful Business Case development.
- Ability to effectively use electronic risk management systems i.e. Datix, for various relevant modules, e.g. risk, incident reporting, audit.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Can demonstrate good presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
- Analytical skills
- Ability to motivate and influence other professional colleagues
- Ability to work and communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary forum and with other professionals
- Highly skilled in communication skills that foster collaboration and influence positive change; including management of conflict.
- Ability to work and communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary forum and with other professionals
- Ability to educate and inspire multi-professional audiences
- Good organisational skills - in terms of co-ordinating work, educating patients, assuring the quality of care delivery and liaising with other professionals.
- Ability to lead on implementation of national standards internally and with system partners.
Desirable criteria
- Significant IT skills
- Project management skills
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
- Confident, assertive, a visionary, and a strategist.
- Able to travel across the region as required, to liaise with key external partners.
- Undertake other duties as may reasonably be expected from the postholder’s role, skills and experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alexis Joannides
- Job title
- Consultant Neurosurgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 596412
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