IV Access Specialist Nurse Lead

The post holder will work as the lead Intravenous Access Specialist Nurse as an autonomous practitioner with responsibility for delivering a quality service and provide highly specialist expert knowledge and advice to staff and patients within the Trust in relation to intravenous access. The post holder will clinically lead a team and service responsible for inserting various vascular access devices (VADs) following appropriate assessment, interpretation of condition and clinical need and preparation of the patient. Evidence based care will be inherent in their practice, ensuring that best practice is disseminated throughout the Trust. The role will be related to clinical expertise with an emphasis on initiating, performing, and maintaining standards of clinical excellence. They will lead Trust wide education related to IV Access for medical and nursing colleagues. The post holder will be a senior qualified highly specialist nurse with an extensive record of vascular access nursing experience.,

• Specialist Nurse Lead of the Trust IV Access Service.
• Highly visible role model and expert resource for WUTH, WCHC and primary care in speciality of IV access.
• Autonomous, accountable practitioner responsible for planning and managing the workload/caseload of the IV Access service in a flexible manner, ensuring that provision meets the needs of patients and directs those staff rotationally working within the service.
• Clinical prioritisation and acceptance / rejection of referrals into the service according to service criteria.
• Liaise effectively and work collaboratively with Multidisciplinary and primary care teams., Please see attached Job Description for further information about the IV Access Specialist Nurse Lead position available at WUTH. You are required to apply for this role via apps.trac.jobs and this is where you will be able to track the progress of your application. This will ensure we deal with your application quickly and efficiently. Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application throughout the process. By applying for this post you are agreeing to Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust viewing and managing the information contained in the application. Please note; that if you are offered a position, your personal details will automatically be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system (ESR). The Trust reserves the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum amount of applications from which to make a shortlist. To prevent this happening please complete and submit your application without delay. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing a DBS application is met by the successful applicant/s. DBS costs are recovered via salary deduction following starting in post. If the post you are applying for requires a DBS - Inline with Trust policy the cost of submitting and processing a DBS for successful applications would be met by the individual themselves. The amount would vary depending on the level required: Standard Disclosure £18+£6.50 or Enhanced Disclosure £38+£6.50 (please be aware the additional sum is an administration fee and may increase due to inflation). This will be deducted from your salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. The Trust would encourage all post holders who require a DBS for their role to registered with the DBS Update Service. You can find out more information and guidance on how to do this at https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service. The Department of Health and Social Care has released a new publication to support overseas candidates looking to work in health and care in the UK. The new guidance provides information on the recruitment process that candidates should expect when applying for work in the UK. Please follow the below link: New guidance for overseas applicants | NHS Employers The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all unborn babies, children and adults and is signed up to both the Wirral Safeguarding Childrens Partnership and the Wirral Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board associated policies and procedures. All Trust staff must be familiar with, and adhere to these procedures. It is the post holders responsibility to attended the Trusts mandatory training Protecting Vulnerable People training, and to follow the relevant Trusts polices and practice guidance.
  
  UK nationals or other persons with a right of abode have an eligible residency status if they have been ordinarily resident in the UK or the British Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of the apprenticeship.
  
  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.