Clinical Nurse Practitioner – General Urology

The primary responsibilities of the post holder are to care for patients with General Urology complaints including but not exclusively LUTS and BPH, within UCLH at Westmoreland Street and North Central London network, this will be executed by participating as an active member of the senior nursing team. The post holder’s primary areas of responsibility are to patients within the Urology pathway. The post holder’s secondary area of responsibility is ensuring the provision of effective, and evidence based urology nursing care at UCLH alongside partners at specialist sites.
The CNP will work alongside and support the education and development of both junior nursing and trainee medical/scientific colleagues. The CNP will be responsible for data collection, monitoring patient outcomes and annual audit.
This CNP will be an experienced nurse, specifically working autonomously with patients during the referral, diagnostic and treatment pathway for elective surgery and conservative management of their urology conditions. This role will cross professional boundaries, including undertaking, interpreting and reporting the findings of diagnostic tests. The CNP will be a role model of excellence in the delivery of holistic care to patients with urology conditions across the hospital Trust and into the wider community and nationally.
The post holder is required to deliver clinical excellence and evidence based expert care in pelvic health, line with Trust guidance and in keeping with both NICE guidelines and the UCLH Trust values. Working within agreed protocols and guidelines the CNP exercises independent judgement to assess, investigate, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients with Urology conditions, in close conjunction and collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT).
The CNP practises both autonomously and in partnership with the multidisciplinary team under the clinical supervision provided by the Consultants within the Urology department. The care is delivered in nurse led outpatient clinics, multidisciplinary clinics, to inpatients, community (remote) triage and diagnostic centres.
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.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
The CNP is responsible to the Lead Nurse for Benign Urology. The Post holder will have key working relationships with all members of the Urology multidisciplinary team including Urologists, nurses, physiotherapists, junior doctors and the directorate management team.
The CNP will also have key working relationships with senior nursing staff across UCLH, specifically forging relationships with key teams working towards excellence in care across UCLH and the wider network.
As the Urology pathway is a tertiary referral service the CNP will be expected to forge working relationships with other CNP’s both in London and in the UK.
For more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.