The Gynaecology and Breast team at UCLH is seeking an experienced surgical nurse to join the enhanced recovery after surgery team. The Enhanced Recovery Clinical Nurse Specialist post is a 1-year secondment (maternity leave cover), full-time band 7. All flexible working requests are considered.

Enhanced recovery is an evidence based clinical service to improve patient experience, clinical effectiveness, and clinical outcome. The Enhanced Recovery team provide care and treatment for elective surgical patients in preoperative, day case, in patient and post discharge settings.

We are looking for a confident, autonomous practitioner who enjoys working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. With experience in quality improvement and service development. Elective surgery experience and IT skills are essential for the role; you will be delivering and evaluating; preoperative patient education groups, inpatient post operative patient care and staff education, and post discharge telephone follow up clinics and patient advice line.

Able to demonstrate excellent leadership skills, provide support and direction to the nursing team

Line manage junior members of the nursing team

Work directly with patients and ward and outpatient nursing teams

Ensuring safe, kind and compassionate care for our patients

Dealing with patient queries arising throughout the day in the department and liaising with medical teams and appropriate escalation

Demonstrating good communication skills with colleagues, patients and carers

Being open to change in the department and learning new skills as needed

Demonstrating teamwork by being flexible and building good working relationships with colleagues

Working collaboratively to improve pathways

Ensuring education and competency of the nursing team.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.

UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.