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Main area Urology Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Ending 12 months after start date) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 361-7315942 Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 31/08/2025 23:59 Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service Job overviewWe are recruiting for a Urology Nurse Specialist who share s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist is a highly skilled nursing professional who is responsible for providing specialised care and support to patients with benign urological conditions. This role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary team to ensure comprehensive care, patient education, and utilize advanced clinical expertise to assess, diagnose, and implement evidence-based interventions tailored to individual patient's needs. You will work alongside the other urology nurses, developing new and appropriate skills to provide excellent care to an ever-increasing case load. Development will be a key focus, and your willingness to learn new skills is essential. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include , Respect , and Improve . We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. Main duties of the jobAs a Urology Nurse Specialist, you will engage in a variety of critical tasks focused on patient care and clinical support. Their responsibilities include: The post holder will be working with patients who have benign urology conditions. The successful candidate will be supported to develop competence and skill in undertaking trial without catheters, difficult catheterisations, flow rates, bladder instillations, and Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS). Within your role, you will support in providing expert advice related to specific conditions or treatment pathways whilst focusing on improving patient care and service development. You'll assess patients holistically, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care. You will provide specialist advice to patient families and carers and the wider multidisciplinary team and carry out specialist nursing procedures in relation to benign urological patient. You will also act in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct. Provide a specialist nursing service for patients with urological conditions who require support and treatment through continuum of care. The successful candidate will have the ability to manage caseload of patients, delivering a high quality service which is linked to a high standard of patient care. Working for our organisationAt East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City Hertford County, Hertford We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen. Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesPlease see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role. Person specificationQualifications / TrainingEvidence of continuous professional development Teaching or mentoring qualification Post registration qualification in Urology or willingness to complete Relevant Experience in Urology Degree Research module SkillsGood verbal and written communication skills Capable of working as an integral member of a small team Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time management. Effective interpersonal skills Commitment to multidisciplinary working Experience in Male & Female Catheterisation Counselling skills Our values We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Include We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together. Respect We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas. Improve We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose. Committed to our Community East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce . We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019. We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@ We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust. We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued. When you apply... 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