Nurse Consultant for Emergency Surgery

The Nurse Consultant for Emergency Surgery is an Advanced Practice Role responsible for providing expert clinical leadership, advanced practice and strategic guidance to ensure high quality, evidenced based care to patients requiring emergency surgery interventions.

The role will provide direct patient care in complex cases, focusing on rapid assessment, diagnosis and advanced management plans in collaboration with surgeons and other specialists. The role is autonomous, and the Nurse Consultant will manage their own clinical patient/ service portfolio across Emergency Surgery Services.

The Nurse Consultant will work collaboratively with the Clinical Nurse Manager for SAU and the Clinical Service Lead for Emergency Surgery at UHCW, to drive initiatives that improve patient outcomes, streamline workflows and enhance patient experience and positive patient outcomes. They will work to deliver evidenced based practice and protocols and adapt emergency pathways for surgical patients toward an ambulatory / outpatient model. This will be achieved through employing service redesign and project management skills. They will also engage and lead in research projects related to emergency surgery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides high-quality, value-based professional practice that improves people’s experience, supporting them to make decisions in complex situations.
• Provides a strong presence and clinical expertise with 50% of time contributing to direct patient care. This will be across Emergency Surgical pathways and footprint.
• Provides a positive approach to working with difference and diversity, challenging stigma, and using the best possible communication methods.
• Embeds shared decision-making with service users and partners in every situation, so that:
  • People can represent themselves and carers and communities can act together.
  • Valid and reliable tools for providing care and services can be selected.
  • The effectiveness of physical, psychological, and social interventions and services (including drug, non-drug and surgical) and the transition through each stage of care and services can be assessed.
• Contributes to and leads joint reviews of health care and services through peer reviews, audits and evaluations of safety, quality, and health outcomes, making sure people’s voices are at the heart of the process.