Clinical Nurse Specialist for Pain Management | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We currently have a vacancy which has become available for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and reliable Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Pain Management Service. Our Integrated Pain structure allows us to meet the needs of both staff and patients, ensuring that is fit for the future for both acute and persistent pain needs.

We are looking for an individual to join our team who will be able to assist in covering all aspects of pain management within the Trust. You will be required to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team including being able to work autonomously, making decisions at times under pressure.

You will be expected to organise your own workload utilising skills to manage challenging situations providing clinical support and guidance in a professional manner. Teaching is a large part of the specialist role, so you will be expected to be able to plan and deliver education packages across both sites to various multidisciplinary teams.It is essential that you can communicate effectively and confidentlyto create strong professional relationships with various members of multidisciplinary teams within the hospital environment, patients/relatives as well as external agencies.

Our team is passionate about the delivery of high-quality care to our patients, and this is a key role in ensuring we deliver our agreed performance plans safely and effectively. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop on your existing skills and knowledge base and to be part of a team who are passionate about service delivery and improving the environment for patients within Lancashire Teaching Trust.Your experience to date will ensure you bring energy and a resilient leadership style to the team, demonstrating an ability to guide, direct and support your team and colleagues.

Our Trust provides a comprehensive range of specialist tertiary services including cancer, renal, plastics and burns, neurosciences and specialist mobility and rehabilitation, along-with our elective and emergency services. We are the major trauma, neurosurgical and vascular centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria and deliver the latest treatment for many complex conditions

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The post holder will work closely with all the members of the multi professional team to ensure patients receive seamless integrated pain management care in both inpatient and outpatient settings and have the opportunity to develop areas of interest and work across these services as they gain experience in this specialism.

The post holder will be involved in the outpatient clinic activity and working collaboratively with the wider organisation and community services. The post holder will be involved in a number of outpatient pain clinics including our pain consultants, multidisciplinary team and nurse led. Our service provides and is involved in the following treatment pathways which the post holder will play an active role:

Medication optimisation, including opioid reduction.

Self-acupuncture course, the post holder will have the opportunity to promote, develop and assess patients for acupuncture as part of their role.

Post pain procedures clinical reviews; including radio frequency and spinal cord stimulation assessment / education.

Pain management programme (PMP)

Develop and work innovatively to ensure the pain service is fit for the future.

The post holder will also be involved in the provision of a 7-day pain service to the wards, critical care unit and other areas, including surgical, medical, emergency department, care of the elderly, women, and children services for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, working alongside the other nursing members and Pain Consultants of the team across multiple sites. Primary responsibility of the post holder will be clinical review of postsurgical and major trauma patients including but not limited to:

Daily review of patients with epidural analgesia delivery systems

Daily review of patients with continuous local anaesthetic delivery systems

Daily review of patients with patient-controlled analgesia delivery systems

Help and advice to the wards for other pain problems, reviewing more complex and persistent pain issues with the pain consultants and senior nursing team members.

In addition, all staff are expected to act in accordance with the values and behaviours of the Trust.