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Location

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Are you ready for a new challenge and to take the next step on your career pathway?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for urology enhanced recovery practitioner to become part of the team in the elective surgical pathway. The role is challenging, but exciting and rewarding.

This role will be mainly clinical working as part of the team to embed and promote enhanced recovery pathways for urology.

The enhanced recovery nurse role focuses on the recovery of patients following surgery and attempts to ensure the delivery of evidence-based care. This can improve the patient experience, improve clinical outcomes, and reduce the demand on inpatient beds by reducing length of stay.

There are 4 elements to enhanced recovery and if you are successful in your application you will work with the clinicians and wider teams to cover all elements as below
1. Pre operative assessment, planning and preparation before admission.
2. Reducing the physical stress of the operation
3. Structured approach to immediate post operative and peri operative management
4. Early mobilisation

The post holder will be responsible for:
• practice within the legal and ethical framework of the Nursing & Midwifery Council Professional Code of Conduct, ensuring registration via NMC revalidation.
• Develop/maintain the role of the Enhanced Recovery Nurse for urology patients.

To work both independently, as well as part of a multi-professional team including clinicians, nurses, and anaesthetist
• Clinical Practice
• Critically evaluate current practice using Care Quality Indicators as agreed with specific SDU leads and the Multi-Disciplinary team.
• Develop innovative ideas to improve efficiency of the Enhanced Recovery Programme, the patient experience and outcomes.
• Ensure the highest standard of personalised nursing care is delivered to patients and their families in partnership with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Develop and facilitate the delivery of educational programmes for ward staff and the wider MDT in the urology Enhanced Recovery Programme.
• To develop new process and polices for patients on the Enhanced Recovery Programme which will guide practice.
• To collate accurate written and verbal information for patients/carers to promote health education and the Enhanced Recovery Programme.

Why colleagues think we are"a great place to work!"

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.

We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact [email protected] (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.

We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

This advert closes on Monday 26 Feb 2024

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