ECMO Nurse Specialist

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS foundation trust as an ECMO Nurse Specialist, providing critical care in the ECMO service across the South West. This role involves coordinating expert nursing care, mentoring others, and collaborating within multidisciplinary teams while enjoying the balance of city living and countryside access.

Qualifications

• Experience in intensive care and ECMO.
• Commitment to teaching and mentoring.
• Ability to develop working relationships with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for 24-hour care delivery and management of patients receiving ECMO.
• Develop close working relationships with medical and clinical teams.
• Provide training and education to patients and staff.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to work effectively under pressure

Teaching

Flexibility, adaptability

Education

Current NMC Registration

Post registration qualification in critical care

Willingness to work towards Master's level academic study

ECMO specialist training course

Job description

Main area ECMO Nurse Specilaist Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Part time considered minimum 30hours per week Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Must be able to undertake shift work including Long days, Nights and weekends. Minimum 30hours per week) Job ref 387-S2423-GB

Site Bristol Royal Infirmary - ECMO A600 Town Bristol Salary £38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata (dependant on experience) Salary period Yearly Closing 06/07/2025 23:59

As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.

Bristol Adult Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Service is delivered to patients across the south west region 24/7, all year round as part of NHSE commissioned ECMO provision across the country.

The ECMO Nurse Specialist will perform the following roles: Coordinator, Retrieval and unit based ENS, in order to provide and ensure delivery of expert nursing care both on and offsite. The ENS role requires a high level of judgement, discretion and decision making in conjunction with the ECMO multidisciplinary team. The ENS will provide education and training to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.

Permanent positions as a Band 6 in ECMO Nurse Specialist

Following an initial period of 1 year in your ECMO Nurse Specialist role (having completed the required training, competencies and consolidated your ECMO skills) there is the opportunity to undertake your ECMO role in addition to a Bristol ICU nursing role at UHBW or NBT NHS Trusts. This rotational model includes General and Cardiac ICU at UHBW and Neuro Trauma ICU at NBT. This rotational model is only available after completion of your first year in ECMO, please contact us should you wish to discuss this further or indicate at interview if this is of interest to you.

Interview date: - 22/7/25

Interviews will only be held on this day

Main duties of the job

The ENS is accountable for twenty-four-hour care delivery and management of patients receiving ECMO in the Bristol wide Adult ECMO service, this involves working Long Day and Night shifts over 7 days of the week.

The ECMO Nurse Specialist will need to develop close working relationships with the ECMO Medical, Perfusionist, Pharmacist and Physiotherapists as well as the clinical teams across the critical care units and key external partners.

Whilst the Bristol Adult ECMO beds are located on a single site (UHBW GICU - A600), this is a collaborative service delivered by ENS from UHBW and North Bristol Trust (NBT).

ECMO Nurse Specialist (ENS) rostered in ECMO will work within the GICU numbers at the ECMO base ICU on GICU (A600) UHBW when there is a decrease in ECMO activity.

ECMO competence will be maintained by undertaking regular ECMO training sessions in line with ELSO standards.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience as preceptor / mentor
• Proven commitment and experience, evidence in teaching
• Recent experience of intra-hospital transfer
• Post registration qualifications relevant to intensive care
• Recent clinical experience in the speciality of intensive care
• ECMO experience
• Evidence of presentations at local and/or regional level
• Evidence of commitment to research based practice or evidence of project work undertaken
• Experience of undertaking research or audit projects

Skills and Abilties

• Awareness of current national changes in nursing / NHS
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care
• Awareness of professional responsibilities to self and others
• Innovative and participates with practice and policy change
• Act as a role model and as a mentor/assessor
• IT skills including use of email and Microsoft office packages
• Knowledge of national and local specialty specific issues
• Ability to cope with emotional issues presented in the course of work, and to support others
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team
• Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service
• Ability to problem solve
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Teaching
• Organisation and management skills
• Previous experience of research, audit and benchmarking
• Further evidence of continued leadership / management development
• Has experience in using electronic clinical information systems
• Supportive
• Respectful

Public Sector Language Competency

• Be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard

Education and Qualification

• Practice Assessor (Comply with NMC standards for education and training)
• Post registration qualification in critical care (completion of NCF Intensive care Step 2&3)
• Current NMC Registration
• Willingness to work towards Masters level academic study
• Current ALS/ILS or willingness to undertake
• ECMO specialist training course
• Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) training or experience

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

· As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

· The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.

· UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

· To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.

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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

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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.

Name Katie Lackey Job title Band 7 ECMO nurse Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01173427600 Additional information

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