Clinical Nurse Specialist in Neuromodulation

We have an exciting opportunity to appoint two enthusiastic and driven Clinical Nurse Specialists to the Neuromodulation service within Neurosciences.

We are seeking someone with clinical skills enabling them to provide advice and support to both patients and staff. They will need to be highly organised with excellent communication, and organisation skills.

The post holder will provide specialist nursing care and support in the management of the Neuromodulation Service. This will involve dealing with complex situations and having to take appropriate action in a variety of settings.

Working as an autonomous practitioner devise, implement and follow up specialist treatments across the disease spectrum for patients within Neurosurgery . To be a skilled practitioner providing expert clinical care using an extensive theoretical knowledge base and practical experience to underpin the role, while acting as a role model for the delivery of expert care.

Provide specialist nursing advice to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients and their carers in collaboration with the multi/interdisciplinary team for patients with chronic pain, who are considered and then referred to the Neuromodulation Service, for Neuromodulatory procedures including: spinal cord stimulation, and intrathecal drug delivery, as well as key involvement in the chronic pain medication management. This post covers the complete Neuromodulation pathway.

Main duties of the job

To work as an autonomous expert practitioner and take responsibility for the ongoing assessment, care and support for patients with long term neurological conditions, chronic pain, and spasticity, who are referred for spinal cord stimulation, and intrathecal drug delivery at all stages of their treatment pathway.

o To provide up to date evidence-based care and to clinically assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, providing specialist advice and actively seeking evidence-based practice which will improve the quality of care and meet the needs of a group of patients

To be an expert resource, providing expert clinical advice to all members of the interdisciplinary team, patients, carers and other agencies.

Facilitate short and long-term follow up of patients through provision of Nurse-led clinics, telephone triage, day case admissions; facilitating consultant-led clinics and admissions as required.

Program Neuromodulation devices according to the patients' response, and within consultant guidelines and clinical expertise.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Boardis one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services.

Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is"Caring for People, Keeping People Well",and ourvision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiffand the Vale offers the best of both worlds.