South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
Nurse Specialist Acute Pain
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Are you an experienced registered nurse with a passion for improving the care of patients experiencing acute and complex pain?
We have an opportunity to join the Acute Pain Service at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Nurse Specialist.
This is a predominantly clinical role, with at least 80% of your time focused on supporting and managing a specialist caseload. Working closely with anaesthetists, surgeons, ward teams, pharmacy, and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will help deliver safe, evidence-based, and compassionate pain management across the organisation.
Responsibilities:
- The post offers a varied mix of direct patient care, specialist advice, education, clinical leadership, audit, and service improvement.
- You will assess and review patients receiving complex pain-management interventions, including patient-controlled analgesia, epidural analgesia, local anaesthetic infusions, and regional anaesthetic techniques, while supporting patients and colleagues to achieve the best possible outcomes.
- You will join a supportive specialist team and have the opportunity to develop your expertise while contributing to the continued development of acute pain services, specialist clinics, and education across the Trust.
Requirements:
- A clinical expert and leader, working autonomously as a member of the multi-professional team to provide specialist advice and is accountable for service delivery across the Trust.
- Able to make informed decisions within their own specialty and scope of professional practice, involving patients and the public to ensure agreed standards and targets are met.
- The post holder will have advanced knowledge in caring for patients with Acute Pain and be responsible for the assessment and management of them.
- They will provide direct patient management through health assessment, initiation of treatment, and alteration of treatment plans.
- The post holder will initiate and participate in audit and research projects relating to the Acute Pain service.
- They will facilitate the development of clinical practice through education of the multi-disciplinary team.
- They will be a specialist resource for other healthcare practitioners and ensure the highest standards of clinical care.
- The post holder will have managerial and leadership responsibility for the Acute pain service.
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About the Trust:
- Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC, and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
- We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond, ranging from hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa, and Shipston-on Stour to community services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways, and delivering high levels of productivity.
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Our Values:
- We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective, and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient-facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion:
- As part of our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below.
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
Contact for Further Details / Informal Visits:
- Name: Melanie Muston
- Job Title: Acute Pain Lead Nurse
- Email Address: Melanie.Muston@swft.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 01926495321
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