Job summary
- Main area
- Pain Management Team
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Per annum)
- Job ref
- 236-OCO-NM652-24
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Oldham Hospital
- Town
- Oldham
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Pain Specialist Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
The pain service combines both acute and persistent pain management within the hospital setting, with additional integrated, multidisciplinary, community outpatient persistent pain services.
Your role will be to provide specialist evidence based advice to patients, nursing staff and other professionals within the Trust, primary care setting, social services and the general public in relation to pain management.
You will be required to support the Clinical Nurse Specialist to develop and improve clinical practice and deliver excellent patient care and deputise for the Clinical Nurse Specialist in their absence.
Main duties of the job
This post will be of interest to you as a highly motivated registered nurse with substantial experience at band 5.
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist you will be enthusiastic, self-motivated, offer support and commitment to the team and demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise in order to provide safe, effective care for all of our patients, all of the time.
We welcome the chance for you to see how our department/welcoming team works and encourage you to visit as part of your application.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration (Part 1 Adult / General Level 1 or 2)
Essential Qualification
Essential criteria
- Teaching/Mentorship qualification
Desirable criteria
- Post-registration qualification in pain management at diploma level
- Health-related degree
- Recognised management or leadership qualification
- NMP V300
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Considerable experience at level 5 with knowledge of pain management techniques and strategies
- Effective team working and facilitation skills with the ability to work independently under the supervision of the clinical nurse specialist
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership & organisational skills.
- Good communication skills, both verbal written & electronic.
- Willingness to undertake training in specialist skills applicable to role.
- Teaching, training & preceptorship skills
- I.M.&T Skills and word processing
- Research awareness and skill
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant political and professional issues in health care, including legislation, regulations & policy.
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues, and policy relating to pain management.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within pain management services
- Experience of running nurse led clinics.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Sarah Thornborough
- Job title
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01616278351
- Additional information
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