Job overview

The nurse Consultant for Emergency Surgery is an Advanced Practice Role responsible for providing expert clinical leadership, advanced practice and strategic guidance to ensure high quality, evidenced based care to patients requiring emergency surgery interventions.

The role will provide direct patient care in complex cases, focusing on rapid assessment, diagnosis and advanced management plans in collaboration with surgeons and other specialists. The role is autonomous, and the Nurse Consultant will manage their own clinical patient/ service portfolio across Emergency Surgery Services. 

The Nurse Consultant will work collaboratively with the Clinical Nurse Manager for SAU and the Clinical Service Lead for Emergency Surgery at UHCW, to drive initiatives that improve patient outcomes, streamline workflows and enhance patient experience and positive patient outcomes. They will work to deliver evidenced based practice and protocols and adapt emergency pathways for surgical patients toward an ambulatory / outpatient model. This will be achieved through employing service redesign and project management skills. They will also engage and lead in research projects related to emergency surgery.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP. 

Main duties of the job

• Autonomously provides high-quality, value-based professional practice that improves people’s experience, supporting them to make decisions in complex situations.
• Provide a strong presence and clinical expertise with 50% of time contributing to direct patient care. This will be across Emergency Surgical pathways and footprint
• Provides a positive approach to working with difference and diversity, challenging stigma, and using the best possible communication methods.
• Embeds shared decision-making with service users and partners in every situation, so that:
  -    People can represent themselves and carers and communities can act together.
  -    valid and reliable tools for providing care and services can be selected; and
  -    The effectiveness of physical, psychological, and social interventions and services (including drug, non-drug and surgical) and the transition through each stage of care and services can be assessed.
• Contributes to and leads joint reviews of health care and services through peer reviews, audits and evaluations of safety, quality, and health outcomes, making sure people’s voices are at the heart of the process.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do. Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.