Job overview

Are you interested in joining our team of specialist renal nurses? 

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team of specialist renal nurses in this joint role. We are looking for a Renal Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) and a Specialist Vascular Access Nurse (VAN). The successful candidate must be an enthusiastic & highly motivated professional to ensure both these roles are maintained to a high standard. The PEF will be accountable for ensuring safe and effective clinical practice, enhancing the patient’s experience and ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives;  the VAN will join our vascular access team and assist the Renal Nurse Consultant in the co-ordination of our vascular access pathway. 

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 3 years experience in renal nursing, with degree level education and a teaching and assessing qualification. You must also have strong communication and IT skills and be able to inspire and manage change within the team to enable us to reach renal association and NSF standards for vascular access. You must have a genuine passion for teaching as well as for getting vascular access right for our patients. You must also be able to work within the multi-disciplinary team as well as flexibly to meet the needs of the service.

For further details please contact Helen Spooner Nurse Consultant on 01902 696136 or mobile number: 07717815896

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly 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’re 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 are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; 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 as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.