Intravenous Vascular Access Specialist Nurse

Transformation Unit; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is hiring a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Intravenous Vascular Access to join our Nurse Led IV access service in Bolton. This Band 7 post offers an exciting opportunity to lead on delivery of IV access care for patients, with a supportive multidisciplinary team.

The role requires ownership of clinical leadership, ongoing professional development, and evidence-based practice, including guidance for staff and patients, audit activities and data reporting.

Qualifications

• Appropriate NMC Registration and current nursing practice.
• Experience in vascular access and ultrasound-guided PICC/midline insertion.
• Ability to lead and communicate across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Promote best practice and provide specialist guidance to staff and patients.
• Administer the audit programme and analyse data.
• Prepare and deliver reports.
• Lead infection prevention and control study at postgraduate level.
• Influence others, prioritise work, and lead the specialist team.

Skills

Multidisciplinary working

Vascular access

Team leadership

Autonomous work

Planning & coordination

PICC/midline

Education

NMC Registration

Teaching qualification

IV therapy training

Nursing degree

Advanced communications

Leadership qualification

Clinical assessment

Job description

Main area Intravenous Vascular Access Specialist Nurse - Band 7 Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 241-612FD-26

Employer Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bolton Hospital Town Farnworth, Bolton Salary £49,387 - £56,515 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2026 23:59

Intravenous Vascular Access Specialist Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a clinical nurse specialist to join our Nurse Led IV access service at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking a dynamic, enthusiastic, motivated specialist nurse who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills that will lead on the delivery of the service to offer a support to Bolton patients.

Main duties of the job

As well as a passion for care, you will bring to the role many transferable skills such as clinical leadership, change management and excellent oral and written communication skills. You will need to be able to influence others, prioritise work and have a flexible approach. The role will be varied and includes: promoting best practice and control, providing specialist advice and guidance for staff and patients, administering the audit programme, analysing and interpreting data and preparing and delivering reports.
You will be supported and encouraged to undertake a programme of study in infection prevention and control at post graduate level and,
therefore, should have a first degree or evidence of the ability to study at that level.

Working for our organisation

We have a long and proud history of caring for generations of local people and can trace our roots all the way back to 1814 with the first hospital in Bolton - the Bolton Dispensary in the town centre.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2008 and, in 2011, we became an integrated provider with community health services joining the trust. Covering a catchment area that also incorporates parts of Bury, Wigan and Salford, we deliver hospital and community based services from the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth and from 20 health centres across Bolton, to a catchment population of 310,000+ people.

The Royal Bolton Hospital is a major hub within Greater Manchester for women's and children's services and is the busiest single ambulance-receiving site in Greater Manchester. We're structured in four clinical divisions - Community Services, Families and Diagnostics, Medicine, and Surgery and are led by a Board of Directors. As an NHS Foundation Trust we're accountable to our members and have a Council of Governors to represent the views of patients, public, staff and partners.

Buildings, names and models of care have changed over the centuries, but one thing has remained constant and is prevalent among our 6,718 staff members: the enduring commitment to providing the best health and care for the people of Bolton.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description for further details on main responsibilities of the role. For any further questions, please see the contact details
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Education/qualifications

• Appropriate NMC Registration
• Teaching Qualification / experience
• Up to date IV therapy training
• Degree in Nursing or in the process of undertaking study at this level
• Advanced communications course
• Leadership Management Qualification
• Advanced clinical assessment skills

Experience

• Management and leadership experience at band 6 and above
• Evidence of continued personal development
• Relevant experience working within a dedicated vascular access role
• Community experience
• Experience working across agencies NHS and Non-NHS

Skills

• Multidisciplinary working
• Significant skills in vascular access including insertion of PICC and midline catheters using ultrasound guidance and ECG technology
• Ability to lead specialist team
• Able to work effectively as part of team & also autonomously
• Ability to plan, organise and coordinate working under pressure
• Proficient in venepuncture, cannulation and peripheral line management – with evidence to support
• Pro-active with desire to challenge historical norms to bring about positive change
• Desire to train other staff to take on and develop new skills such as PICC and midline insertion
• Management of Change
• Understanding of clinical research and the influence on current practice

Values & Behaviours

• Role models behaviours in line with Code of Conduct and Trust values
• Commitment to excellence through CPD of self and others
• Able to work closely and openly with team members
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others
• Working with Integrity
• Caring and compassionate

Knowledge

• Caseload management
• Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and up to date evidence based clinical trends and practices.
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Understanding of health & safety Issues
• Management of Change
• Understanding of clinical research and the influence on current practice

The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.

We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.