Rheumatology - Clinical Nurse Specialist

Swbhengage; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a passionate Clinical Nurse Specialist to join their dynamic Rheumatology team. This role offers the opportunity to work with patients suffering from complex conditions, providing expert care and support from diagnosis to self-management. You will lead independent clinics, make critical clinical decisions, and contribute to the development of care pathways. Join a team that values ambition, respect, and compassion, and be part of a mission to improve health outcomes in a culturally diverse community. This is more than just a job; it's a chance to make a real difference in patients' lives.

Qualifications

• Candidates must be highly motivated and able to work in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in managing complex patient conditions is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for patients with complex health needs and support them in self-management.
• Undertake independent nurse-led clinics and manage treatment pathways.

Skills

Expert clinical decision making

Advanced health assessment

Non-medical prescribing

Knowledge of Rheumatology medications

Patient management

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Specialist training in Rheumatology

Job description

Rheumatology - Clinical Nurse Specialist

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Exciting opportunities have arisen within our Rheumatology Service. We are seeking enthusiastic, driven senior nurses with excellent clinical skills to join the Department of Rheumatology. Our teams are based across our City and Sandwell Health Campus Sites.

We are looking for individuals that are highly motivated, able to work effectively within in a large multidisciplinary team and use their own initiative within their scope of practice.

The successful candidate will have responsibility for the management of patients with complex conditions and will promote the service and deliver high quality care that is evidence based and reflects current best practice. Working collaboratively within the Rheumatology team and be visible and accessible to patients, carers, and staff.

Candidates would also need to be able to undertake independent nurse led clinics, requiring skills such as expert clinical decision making, advanced health assessment and non-medical prescribing. The role would involve seeing new and follow up patients, extensive knowledge of Rheumatology medications and biologics, deciding the treatment pathway for patients according to NICE/BSR guidelines and managing the biologics service and homecare prescriptions.

As the Clinical Nurse Specialist you will provide care for patients with complex, multi-system health needs and offer support to these patients from diagnosis to enable them to self-manage their long term conditions. You will provide assessment and treatment, health education and support to patients to manage their conditions in clinic, via a telephone advice line and virtually using tele-medicine. Within this role, you will be required to demonstrate that you are reliable and flexible.

The post holder will provide highly specialised advice, education, training, and support for patients and be responsible for the development of care pathways and nurse led initiatives to enhance services delivered.

In the event recruitment to the B7 positions are not possible, a B6 to 7 development role may be considered . Relevant training and supervision would be provided to meet set objectives for this role.

Please note if a high volume of applications are received this post may close prior to the advertised closing date.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it.Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Michelle Wright Job title: Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07890030931

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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