Clinical Nurse Specialist

Take the next step in your specialist career with a rare and rewarding opportunity to join the vibrant Pulvertaft Hand Unit.If you're ready to deepen your expertise and play a key role in a nationally respected service, this is your moment. As part of our forward-thinking Hand Outpatient Team, you'll expand your clinical knowledge inhands and plastics, develop advanced assessment and treatment skills, and contribute directly to high-quality patient care. This role also includes rotation into theHand Trauma Co-ordinationposition - a pivotal responsibility that helps us optimise both outpatient flow and theatre capacity. You'll be joining a supportive, skilled, and genuinely passionate team where your growth, curiosity, and commitment will be valued every day. In this role, you will:

• Lead nurse-led clinics- independently reviewing, planning, treating and safely discharging patients with a wide range of hand injuries and conditions.
• Work collaboratively across the Hand Unit- complementing and supporting the wider multidisciplinary team to deliver seamless, high-quality care.
• Ensure smooth, efficient clinic flow- helping to maintain a well-organised, patient-centred outpatient environment.
• Apply specialist expertise in wound care- including plastics post-operative reviews, to manage complex wounds confidently and effectively.
• Co-ordinate staffing, clinic activity and theatre bookings- playing a key part in maximising service efficiency. This operational leadership responsibility is undertaken on a rotational basis.
  
  As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.