Paediatric Trauma & Orthopaedic Clinical Nurse Specialist

Working closely with the consultant teams, junior doctors, nursing teams and allied health professionals within our trust and the wider cancer network in the southwest, to advocate and care for upper GI patients.

To be a resource of information and advice for patients and professionals and to provide teaching and dissemination of knowledge through research, audit and educational events and conference.

Working within the hospital trust delivering specialist out patient clinics, including nurse led clinics for upper GI Cancer patients.

To give clinical advice to upper GI cancer patients, their families and other health professionals

To manage a caseload of patients through their cancer pathway to provide timely access to cancer care.

To discuss the side effects of treatments and prepare patients for surgery.

To meet the information needs of our patients and to provide emotional and psychological support during their diagnosis and treatment.

a skilled communicator with strong clinical knowledge and problem solving skills , who would like to be part of our Senior CNS (Clinical Nurse Specialist) workforce.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.

UHBW has been rated by the CQC as Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.

Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.