Paediatric Trauma & Orthopaedic Clinical Nurse Specialist inBristol inBristol PUBLISHED
THU 24 OCT 2024
Candidates should possess recent experience in paediatric orthopaedic nursing and demonstrate excellent interpersonal and organisational skills. The role entails collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure high-quality, evidence-based care, as well as offering leadership, education, and support to healthcare professionals and community colleagues. Involvement in audit and research is also a key aspect of this position.
Paediatric Trauma & Orthopaedic Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 6
30 hours per week, 9 month fixed-term (maternity cover)
We are looking to recruit a Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the Paediatric Orthopaedic Clinical Nurse Specialist team for a fixed term, maternity leave cover, contract for 9 months. We would like the successful post-holder to start in November 2024. The role involves assisting with the provision of expert clinical care, support and advice for children and families/carers under the care of the paediatric trauma and orthopaedic service based at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, throughout the care pathway, ensuring a seamless service for these patients. You will work alongside the established team of Band 7/6 Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Nurse Specialists.
We are seeking a caring, motivated, reliable and dynamic nurse with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills to contribute to the provision of an excellent standard of care to this patient group within the BRHC in-patient and out-patient setting as well as supporting families on discharge. You will need to have recent Band 5/6 experience of nursing children within the paediatric orthopaedic speciality.
The CNS will provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients and their families/carers throughout all aspects of the care pathway, to provide a seamless service. The CNS will work with the multi-disciplinary team to provide holistic, high quality, evidence-based care to children and their families with trauma/orthopaedic conditions, including pre-operatively, during in-patient stays, in the clinic setting and supporting patients and families on discharge. The post-holder will provide leadership, clinical expertise, education and support to patients and their families / carer, hospital based professionals as well as being a resource for colleagues in community settings, and will be actively involved in audit and research.
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