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Job summary

Main area
Urology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Ending 12 months after start date)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
361-7315942
Employer
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lister Hospital
Town
Stevenage
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/08/2025 23:59

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Urology Nurse Specialist - Urology

NHS AfC: Band 6

Here at  East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

 

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Urology Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. 

The Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist is a highly skilled nursing professional who is responsible for providing specialised care and support to patients with benign urological conditions.

This role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary team to ensure comprehensive care, patient education, and utilize advanced clinical expertise to assess, diagnose, and implement evidence-based interventions tailored to individual patient's needs. 

You will work alongside the other urology nurses, developing new and appropriate skills to provide excellent care to an ever-increasing case load. Development will be a key focus, and your willingness to learn new skills is essential.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

As a Urology Nurse Specialist, you will engage in a variety of critical tasks focused on patient care and clinical support. Their responsibilities include:

The post holder will be working with patients who have benign urology conditions. The successful candidate will be supported to develop competence and skill in undertaking trial without catheters, difficult catheterisations, flow rates, bladder instillations, and Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS).

Within your role, you will support in providing expert advice related to specific conditions or treatment pathways whilst focusing on improving patient care and service development. You'll assess patients holistically, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care.

You will provide specialist advice to patient families and carers and the wider multidisciplinary team and carry out specialist nursing procedures in relation to benign urological patient.

You will also act in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct. Provide a specialist nursing service for patients with urological conditions who require support and treatment through continuum of care.

The successful candidate will have the ability to manage caseload of patients, delivering a high quality service which is linked to a high standard of patient care.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. 

We run the following hospitals: 

  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage 
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City 
  • Hertford County, Hertford 
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood 

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.  We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. 

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.  This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role. 

 

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential criteria
  • Registered nurse
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • Teaching or mentoring qualification
  • Post registration qualification in Urology or willingness to complete
  • Relevant Experience in Urology
Desirable criteria
  • Degree
  • Research module

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
  • Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
  • Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
  • Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time management. Effective interpersonal skills
  • Commitment to multidisciplinary working
  • Experience in Male & Female Catheterisation
Desirable criteria
  • Counselling skills
  • Leadership skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Joy Ugwu
Job title
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01438284356
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