Inpatient Pain Clinical Nurse Specialist

Transformationunitgm; North Dakota; On-site; USD 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a highly motivated Inpatient Pain Clinical Nurse Specialist to join their dedicated Inpatient Pain Service. Candidates must have advanced clinical skills and experience in pain management, demonstrating strong leadership and communication skills. This permanent, full-time position offers a chance to work in a prestigious teaching hospital environment, contributing to specialized patient care for complex pain needs.

Qualifications

• Advanced practitioner through formal qualification or extensive clinical experience.
• Relevant experience in pain management.
• Capacity to work both independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver expert nursing services within the Inpatient Pain Service.
• Manage a caseload of patients effectively.
• Assist in evidence-based clinical nursing practice development.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Leadership

Advanced clinical assessment

Counseling skills

Education

Degree or equivalent

Relevant post-reg qualification in specialist field

Job description

Main area Inpatient Pain Service Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent: Mon - Fri 08:30-16:30 Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 08:30-16:30) Job ref 200-7265811-GO-ND

Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Georges University Foundation Trust Town Tooting Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 08/07/2025 23:59

Inpatient Pain Clinical Nurse Specialist

Band 7

Job overview

A vacancy has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, assertive and committed Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join the Inpatient Pain Service here at St George’s Hospital, South West London. We are a large teaching hospital as well as a regional trauma centre and a tertiary referral centre for a broad range of surgical specialties.

Our mission is ‘to provide a service devoted to the highest level of individualised, holistic care and to create awareness among staff of the services and education we provide.’ Many patients with pain have highly complex needs due to multiple pathologies and psycho/social issues, which can be challenging and require expert input from our specialist team.

We are a resource for advice, education and support for all clinical staff, aiming to provide excellent evidence based care.

The successful candidate: will be an advanced practitioner either through formal qualification and/or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the field of pain management; have the ability to organise their time efficiently and be able to work independently as well as part of a team to provide timely and appropriate pain management.

Demonstrate excellent communication skills with patients and members of the MDT; have experience in preparing teaching, presenting and audit.

Main duties of the job

• To work as an autonomous, advanced practitioner and effectively deliver an expert nursing service within the specialist area.
• To effectively manage a caseload of patients/clients.
• To ensure that patients and their families are fully informed and supported by providing clinical and social support.
• To assist in the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines.
• To establish clear lines of communication within the specialty team to ensure cohesive multidisciplinary management of patients.
• To link with healthcare teams in order to increase knowledge and facilitate the care of this group of people in all healthcare settings.

Working for our organisation

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Person specification

Person specification criteria

• Degree or equivalent or working towards

Person Specification criteria - Training

• Relevant post reg qualification in specialist field

Experience

• An advanced practitioner either through formal qualification and/or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the area

Experience

• Relevenat, demonstrable experience in specialist area

Experience

• Ability to build a rapport with patients and MDT

Experience

• Ability to work independently or as part of a team

Experience

• Experience of running research or audit projects

Experience

• Experience of delivering presentations

Experience

• To have evidence of service development

Skills

• Strong leadership skills

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• basic counselling skills

experience

• Ability to impart complex information to patients, relatives, and carers with different levels of understanding

Skills

• Advanced clinical assessment skills or willingness to develop

Knowledge

• Understanding of clinical governance and risk assessment
• Clear understanding of safeguarding procedures
• Patient centred approach

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image

As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

______________________________________________________

Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

Telephone: [phone]

Text: 07501066267

Email:[e-mail].

Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.

______________________________________________________

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.

Name Alison Moss/Caroline Dinen Job title Lead Pain CNSs Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02087252080 Additional information

If you are interested in the challenges this opportunity offers or would like further information then please contact Alison Moss or Caroline Dinen (Lead Pain CNSs) [e-mail]/[e-mail] contactable on - 0208 725 2080