Renal Practice Education Facilitator/Specialist Nurse Vascular Access

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Wolverhampton seeks a Renal Practice Education Facilitator to enhance patient experience and contribute to clinical excellence in renal nursing. Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years in renal nursing, a degree, and a passion for teaching. This role involves working collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure high standards of care and effective practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience in renal nursing.
• Strong communication and IT skills.
• Genuine passion for teaching and vascular access.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe and effective clinical practice.
• Enhance the patients’ experience through holistic assessments.
• Contribute to the organizational development and policies.

Skills

Strong communication and IT skills

Ability to inspire and manage change

Teamwork in multi-disciplinary settings

Education

Degree level education

Teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

Overview

To be professionally accountable and maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role. To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family. To support and deputise for the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in ensuring the standards of professional practice as set out by appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role are maintained. Utilise clinical proficiency in delivering a high standard of nursing care. Provide managerial and leadership skills to support the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse and nursing team to deliver continually improved standards and efficient and effective use of resources.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services. We are proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We are passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients. We have been rated as “Good” by CQC and have achieved numerous awards, including The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe and effective clinical practice.
• Ensure a high standard of safe clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, national legislation and local standards.
• Take personal responsibility for actions and omissions, and fully recognise personal accountability.
• Practice within an ethical framework based upon dignity and respect for the well‑being and safety of patients and clients.
• Work collaboratively with the Renal MDT to achieve and maintain national standards.
• Work harmoniously and effectively with colleagues, patients and their carers, families and friends.
• Participate in the development of the service, writing and reviewing policies and practices to ensure evidence‑based practice is implemented in line with national guidance.
• Enhance the patients’ experience by assessing individuals holistically using a range of different assessment methods.
• Incorporate health promotion and prevention into care planning, and comprehensively assess patients for risk factors.
• Utilise “making every contact count” as an approach to change behaviour through interactions with individuals, carers, families to support them in making positive changes to their physical and mental health and wellbeing.
• Contribute to the development of an organisational culture that supports continuous learning and development, evidence‑based practice and succession planning.
• Support the appraisal process by ensuring personal development plans are developed and that they are consistent with the team’s and organisation’s objectives, succession planning and workforce development and support professional revalidation.
• Network with peers across professional groups and clinical disciplines promoting the exchange of knowledge, skills and resources.
• Have high‑level communication skills and contribute to wider development of practice by publicising and disseminating work through presentations at conferences and articles in the professional press.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience in renal nursing.
• Degree level education and a teaching and assessing qualification.
• Strong communication and IT skills.
• Ability to inspire and manage change within the team to enable reaching renal association and NSF standards for vascular access.
• Genuine passion for teaching and for getting vascular access right for patients.
• Ability to work within a multi‑disciplinary team and flexibly to meet the needs of the service.

Additional Information

We are looking for a Renal Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) and a Specialist Vascular Access Nurse (VAN). The successful candidate will have a minimum of 3 years experience in renal nursing, a degree level education, a teaching and assessing qualification, strong communication and IT skills, and a genuine passion for teaching and vascular access. The PEF will be accountable for ensuring safe and effective clinical practice, enhancing the patient’s experience and contributing to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives. The VAN will join our vascular access team and assist the Renal Nurse Consultant in coordinating our vascular access pathway.