Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Urology is a key specialty in our hospital and a major element of the workload associated with this post is co-ordinating and ensuring efficient running of our, dynamic Urology one stop clinic.

The post-holder will work towards providing high quality specialist nursing care to patients with urological conditions in outpatients department and provide specialist input on wards as needed.   They will also provide support and advice to patients and their families as well as acting as a resource to other professionals. 

Key Responsibilities

Clinical:

To sustain a high-quality service within the urology multi-disciplinary team.

To assess and advise patients on the treatment and management of urological disease. This will involve taking a clinical history and physical examination.

To be knowledgeable about all urology procedures and be fully aware of medical treatments relevant to work area.

To provide information, education and psychological support to patients with benign and malignant conditions.

Competent in undertaking urodynamic studies, Including Video urodynamic video studies

Assist with teaching and supervising junior nursing staff when carrying out urological procedures.

Support and work towards facilitating independent nurse led nurse led clinics including prostate assessment and post-operative follow up.

Assess analyse and plan to provide written and verbal information about treatment options.  Make recommendations to G.Ps.

Provide patient information on urological procedures enabling them to make informed consent.

Perform designated procedures including catheterisation and intravesical therapy, phlebotomy and cannulation.

Teach intermittent self-catheterisation and dilatation.

Make appropriate referrals to other health professionals.

Provide a telephone resource for patients, G.Ps. and District Nurses.

Assist with flexible Cystoscopy procedures and Prostate biopsy clinics.

Supervisory Duties

To support the senior Urology Nurse Specialist in the efficient day to day running of the one stop Urology clinic.

To attend and actively participate in the multidisciplinary team meeting and treatment planning/referral decisions.

To assess the quality of care given by the evaluation of patient service, effecting change where necessary and demonstrating patient involvement when appropriate.

To liaise closely with the Senior Urology Nurse and Service Manager, maximising the use of available resources to benefit patient care and ensuring that any changes in practice that impacts budgetary resources are considers fully.

To promote/manage the efficient and effective use of supplies, provisions and

Equipment within the designated budget.

Teaching and Audit:

Establish and evaluate programmes of education and training for junior nurses, HCAs and other members of the multi-disciplinary team in the area of urology.  To work collaboratively with relevant educational staff to provide teaching programmes to meet those needs.

To identify the specific education needs of individual patients and carers and facilitate meeting those needs.

Prepare and provide learning materials for use within the clinical areas.

Participate in clinical supervision programme as supervisee and supervisor.

In collaboration with other nurses, identify and encourage research-based practice in relation to urological care within the Trust.

Participate in nursing and collaborative research in urological care.

To initiate and or participate in clinical audit in collaboration with the Multidisciplinary team.

 Management:

To play a key role in the operational and strategic development of the urology service.

To develop clinical policies and protocols relevant to the patient group.

Liaise effectively with all other disciplines within the Trust and at local/community level.

Participate in the review and develop written policies, protocols and guidance relevant to this patient group, in conjunction with the Multidisciplinary team.  These should be updated where necessary.

Initiate and participate in the management of change to improve standards and communication links across primary and secondary care.

To act as an effective role model.

To work with and support managers and clinical staff to identify areas where changes in practice are required.

Provide reports as required by the Trust.

To introduce measures to actively manage and reduce risk to patients. Ensure the formal reporting and recoding of adverse incidents in line with Trust policy.

Network with other clinical nurse specialists to evaluate, develop and promote the specialist-nursing role.

To utilise and maintain information systems to aid audit and to provide regular actively analysis reports.

Ensures compliance with the Trust Equality and Diversity Policy, supporting the delivery of the Race Equality Scheme and duty to positively promote race equality and equality of opportunity for disabled people ensuring services are responsive to the needs of equality groups.

Personal Professional Development:

 To keep up to date with developments in Urological care by regularly reviewing the literature and attending the relevant study days. To fulfil PREP requirements.

To achieve a range of clinical competencies as required

To keep up to date with current literature and research in nursing and the speciality.

To maintain your own personal and professional development, attending mandatory study sessions as required whilst maintaining own professional portfolio, in preparation for 3 yearly NMC revalidation.

To undergo and actively participate in your own performance appraisals.

To adhere to the NMC Code of Professional conduct working within and accepting responsibility for maintaining agreed levels of competence.