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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We have a full time position, Band 6 Urology Specialist Nurse, progressing to Band 7 after relevant training and completion of relevant competencies, available within the Urology Department in NHS Grampian.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an excellent Specialist Nurse team and to develop in your nursing career within the Urology Service. The Urology Service is a large and expanding specialty and this role will be a key part in the development of the service moving forward.
We require a dynamic, motivated and enthusiastic individual. The suitable candidate must have excellent communication skills, be able to work autonomously and as part of a team within this well-established service. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate clinical excellence in Urology nursing practice and have extensive post registration nursing experience. The suitable candidate must be familiar with improvement methodology and have experience of ERAS and Urology stoma care.
Suitable candidates should be able to work efficiently, effectively and be able to use their initiative to make sound rational decisions supported by evidenced based practice and research. The candidate must also have the ability to work under pressure in a busy environment.
The Urology Service works collaboratively across NHS Grampian to provide integrated and clinically effective services for patients with urological disorders. The sucessful candiate will conduct Nurse led clinics- TRUS and prostate biopsies, vetting, including face to face and Telephone follow up clinics for patients. The succesful candidate will provide advice, support, information and education to patients, carers and other health care professionals involved in the care of patients with prostate cancer.
Full support will be given for training and the completeion of competencies.
If you think that you are up for the challenge then we want to hear from you.
For informal enquiries, please contact Nurse Manager Jane Beattie 01224 559633.
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NHS Grampian forms one of the fourteen regional health boards of NHS Scotland and is responsible for providing health and social care services to a population of over 500,000 people living in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray.
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