Pain Specialist Nurse

☞ Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Update day: 07-05-2024

Location: Oldham North West

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Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 a year

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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us.

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

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.


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

If you are an International Nurse without a current NMC PIN, please do not apply for this role. To find out more about the current international nursing opportunities available to you here at the NCA, please contactInternationalNursing.OSCE@nca.nhs.uk

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.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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.

The Northern Care Alliance serves a richly diverse population and our Care Organisations work hard to ensure all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. We respect the value of difference. So our aim is to employ a workforce as representative as possible of this population. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome. If you require reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact the ResourcingTeam to discuss.

In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.

Keep up to date with the latest job opportunities and information across the Northern Care Alliance by following us on Twitter and Facebook: @NCACareersNHS

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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.

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Deadline: 21-06-2024

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