Spinal Cord injury Clinical Specialist- Nurse or Physiotherapist
Job overview
As the Band 6 Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Specialist (SCIS) you will take a key role in the delivery of the acute outreach and admission service and continually look for new and innovative ways of improving the service and the patient’s experience.As a registered, accountable and autonomous nurse/physiotherapist you will act in the best interests of your patients at all times and take personal responsibility for your actions and decisions. You will be responsible for liaising with referring clinicians, families and the patients with newly diagnosed spinal cord injury (SCI).
The role will include offering advice, support and educational input to the above.
You will demonstrate strong leadership qualities that constantly reinforce the Trust values and beliefs
You will support the acute outreach and admissions lead and, in their absence, to take responsibility for the acute outreach and admissions service ensuring there is ongoing communication regarding the management of patients with newly diagnosed SCI.
Main duties of the job- Provide continuing expert care for a group of patients with SCI. Communicate effectively, listen to clinicians, families and patients ensure their views are heard.
- Provide and receive complex and sensitive information which may require reassurance, tact or persuasion. Recognise where there are barriers to communication and work to establish effective communication within the multidisciplinary team. You will be required to communicate effectively
- You will demonstrate effective leadership skills at all times and have the courage to challenge performance, practice, attitudes and behaviours that breach the principles of the Trust values and beliefs, the Trust policies, the NMC and HCPC Code of professional Conduct.
- Work within Trust policies to maintain confidentiality of verbal and written information obtained in the course of duty and ensure that any disclosure is consistent with statutory requirements and Trust policy
- Monitor SCI specific care for acute spinal cord injured patient in the different referring hospital, ensuring appropriate, specialist advice and support is delivered with competence, kindness, compassion and respect. You will be mindful of standards at all times, manage concerns, challenge poor practice and communicate concerns to relevant health care professionals
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre.We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria- The post holder will be a first level registered nurse or physiotherapist
- Degree level qualification and/or evidence of continuing professional development equivalent to post-graduate diploma level.
- QCF Assessor Award or Mentorship qualification.
- Ability to assess patients, plan care for a group of patients, deliver care and evaluate the effectiveness of care given and supervise others to reach a good level of competence in assessment, planning, delivering and evaluating care.
- IT skills.
- Specialist knowledge in all aspects of spinal cord injuries.
- Minimum 2 years at Band 5.
- Advanced physical skills required for complex patient positioning and movement including teaching and demonstrating to others.
- Knowledge of current and on-going learning and development in relation to physiotherapy and health care
- Excellent critical analysis and advanced clinical decision-making skills.
- The ability to work autonomously and creatively making good and effective use of resources and skills.
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Leadership skills including excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to think creatively and contribute to service improvement initiatives for benefit of patients and staff.
- Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
- Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
- An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
- Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
- Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
- An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
- Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
- Cycle to work scheme
- Uniform provided (where required)
- On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
- On site health and fitness club
- On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
SEASONAL RESPIRATORY VACCINATIONS
We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.
GETTING TO WORK
We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.
The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.
OTHER INFORMATION
If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary.Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
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