Job Description:
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Pain
Cromwell Hospital, Kensington SW5 0TU - 5 mins walk from Earls Court underground, or 7 mins walk from Gloucester Road underground.
Permanent Part Time (18.75hrs)
£54,660pa (Pro Rata: - £27,330pa + fantastic benefits)
We make health happen.
At Bupa, you can be the Nurse you want to be. With the autonomy to use your skills and strong benefits to support you, patient care can be your top priority.
How you'll help us make health happen.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist is expected to support all areas of the service and work in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary pain team. The role would require you to manage inpatients with acute and chronic pain, using current analgesic techniques.
You'll Care for acutely unwell patients in surgical settings, demonstrating excellent communication and interpersonal skills and work autonomously and as a team player, making independent decisions on pain management plans.
Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, you'll serve as a role model for high standards of patient care.
You shall function autonomously with senior pain specialists' guidance, leading the pain team champions and ensuring out-of-hours care includes pain management plans.
Supporting registered nurses and pain team champions, you shall maintain high-quality patient care and provide specialist knowledge and education in pain management, contributing to audits and service improvement.
Key Skills / Qualifications
Manage a caseload of inpatients with both acute and chronic pain.
Possess a working knowledge of current analgesic techniques.
Exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills for managing sensitive consultations.
Make independent decisions about patients' pain management plans.
Participate in audit and implement changes within the specialty.
What you'll bring:
Registered Nurse Adult/RGN (essential)
Substantial post-registration experience
Confident in teaching members of the MDT
Genuine interest in inpatient and paediatric pain management
Working knowledge of analgesic techniques (e.g., PCA, epidurals, local anaesthetic)
Teaching/training experience, evidence of continuing professional development
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass
Various family friendly benefits
Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work
Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony.
Why Bupa?
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type:
Part timeJob Area:
Nursing & TheatresLocations:
Cromwell Hospital LondonAt Cromwell Hospital, we have a great team of determined and loyal health care professionals. We’re continually investing in the world’s most advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies. That's why patients choose to come to us from across the UK, and more than 100 other countries around the world.
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.
Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challeging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.
We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you.
As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.
You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.
Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.
Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.
Born in Portugal with a passion for nursing, she moved to the UK and is now our Critical Care Outreach sister at Cromwell Hospital.
Her desire to grow and learn new skills, helped her become a valued team member.
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