Pain Management Nurse

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Pain Management Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

An exciting opportunity has presented itself to join the Pain Management Team at East & North Herts NHS Trust.

We are a well-established but growing service aiming to improve the pain management experience for patients within the Trust and our local areas.

You will need to possess excellent communication skills, work well within a multi-disciplinary team, be able to show empathy and understanding for a complex patient group with chronic conditions but also demonstrate acute nursing skills due to the broad variation of duties involved in the role.

We are looking for someone with an interest in Pain Management. Pain Management Nursing Experience beneficial but not essential.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the provision of high quality, patient focused care. While assessing, developing and implementing specialist nursing care programmes. This position is responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff.

Your day to day tasks will include assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating care as a practitioner with specialist skills.

The successful candidate will provide advice and clinical expertise to staff and specialist clinical advice for patients and carers.

You will help to develop the skills of general nurses to enable them to provide a high standard of care for patients within the specialty.

You will also be comfortable with communicating very sensitive condition related information to patients and relatives, requiring high levels of empathy and reassurance.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day
• To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of evidence based practice
• Understanding of Clinical Governance
• Understanding and knowledge of specialist field

Skills

Essential

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time management.
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Commitment to multidisciplinary working.

Desirable

• Documentation, audit and presentation skills
• Leadership Skills

Previous Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate expert nursing skills
• Evidence of mentorship/preceptorship roles
• Accept personal accountability for own practice
• Experience of formal/informal teaching

Desirable

• Experience at band 6
• Experience working within a specialist pain team

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse.
• Relevant experience in surgery
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

• Post Registration qualification in specialty or willingness to complete
• Teaching or mentoring qualification or experience
• Degree in Adult nursing (BsC)