Job overview

Job Title: Urology Advanced nurse Practitioner (ACP) Managerially accountable to: Lead Urology / Advanced Nurse Practitioner  Advanced Nurse Practitioner.

The role offers the opportunity to join a effective , proactive urology team of specialist nurses that values the multidisciplinary skill mix and all talents that exist within. This Role is designed to enabled specialist urological knowledge and skills related to both benign and cancer patient pathways to influence and enhance urological patient outcomes. Our focus is on advanced levels of communication, fostering collaboration and demonstrating accountability.  Forward thinking urology practitioners working at an advanced level are leaders and innovators, using their expertise and broad knowledge to find modern, sustainable and technological solutions to overcome challenges that help transform services. Working within in a range of settings the role requires skills and knowledge that will

· Manage complete episodes of person-centred, complex care optimising peoples experiences and outcomes.

· Contribute to the development of care pathways

· Coordinate, delegate and supervise the wider multidisciplinary team

· Conduct data analysis/reflection to enable services to be audited with the outcomes informing policy and practice

· Participate within departmental clinical reflection

· Reflect and high-quality research

Main duties of the job

· Work collaboratively within a team of Advance and Enhanced specialist urology nurses

· Actively involved within the functionality of nursing teams for example off duty managing sickness appraisals.

· Triage all Urology New referrals into appropriate Clinic setting

· Demonstrate high levels of clinical decision making

· Advanced understanding of urological clinical conditions established and unestablished patient pathways.

· Facilitate Urology 2ww and None-urgent first point of contact clinics

· Facilitate Nurse led face to face and Telephone FU Urology clinics

· Innovate and lead urology nurse led ambulatory unit

· Develop enhanced skills, for example Flexi cystoscopy removal, ureteric stents, LATP (Prostate biopsy), TULA, Bladder Botox

· Utilise urology nursing competency framework with the aim endorse development in self and others

· Proactively plan inpatient on-going care needs to facilitate timely transfer into urology nurse led ambulatory service.

· Work collaboratively with emergency portals and community service with the aim to avoid acute hospital admissions

· Support the development of urological nurse led services.

· Support the development of clinical practice through research and education of the multi-disciplinary team

· Evaluate care through quality assurance initiatives and assessment of clinical outcomes

· Be an expert resource for other healthcare practitioners

· Ensure that the highest standards of clinical care are delivered

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.