Senior Clinical Nursing Support worker

To work unsupervised using own initiative when recording patient observations and urinalysis results.

To be responsible for a wider range of patient duties.

• Support nurse practitioners with bladder instillation treatments for cancer and benign patients
• Support nurse practitioners with performing urodynamic, flowrate and bladder scan investigations
• Support nurse practitioners with difficult urethral catheter exchanges, suprapubic catheter changes and clean intermittent catheterisation education
• Support with outpatient clinics for consultant and nurse practitioners
• Prepares bed / trolley spaces for admission and discharge
• Ensure all clinical areas are prepared and equipped for investigations / treatments
• Able to demonstrate procedures to junior staff.
• Puts stock away and adapts stock room area as needed using own initiative.
• Report low stocks, although not responsible for ordering
• Aware of the financial implication of ordering and the cost to the unit.
• Deals with patient enquiries face to face and over the phone and escalates to nurse practitioners as required
• Undertake general clerical duties as needed
• Assists with patient transfer with hoist and supports with moving and handling as required
• Able to prepare equipment in an emergency.
• Maintains effective communication with all patients and staff.
• To be aware of and maintain requirements for patient confidentiality in the clinical setting.
• To work as part of a team and with the wider MDT
• Support the urology team with additional clinical duties as require

All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.

We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.

We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.

The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hannah Evans Job title: ANP Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07515528155