Nurse Consultant Emergency Surgery

Nurse Consultant Emergency Surgery

The closing date is 27 July 2026

The nurse Consultant for Emergency Surgery is an Advanced Practice Role responsible for providing expert clinical leadership, advanced practice and strategic guidance to ensure high quality, evidence based care to patients requiring emergency surgery interventions.

The role will provide direct patient care in complex cases, focusing on rapid assessment, diagnosis and advanced management plans in collaboration with surgeons and other specialists. The role is autonomous, and the Nurse Consultant will manage their own clinical patient/service portfolio across Emergency Surgery Services.

The Nurse Consultant will work collaboratively with the Clinical Nurse Manager for SAU and the Clinical Service Lead for Emergency Surgery at UHCW, to drive initiatives that improve patient outcomes, streamline workflows and enhance patient experience and positive patient outcomes. They will work to deliver evidence based practice and protocols and adapt emergency pathways for surgical patients toward an ambulatory/outpatient model.

This will be achieved through employing service redesign and project management skills. They will also engage and lead in research projects related to emergency surgery.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

• Autonomously provides high-quality, value-based professional practice that improves people's experience, supporting them to make decisions in complex situations.
• Provide a strong presence and clinical expertise with 50% of time contributing to direct patient care. This will be across Emergency Surgical pathways and footprint
• Provides a positive approach to working with difference and diversity, challenging stigma, and using the best possible communication methods.
• Embeds shared decision-making with service users and partners in every situation, so that:
  
  - People can represent themselves and carers and communities can act together.
  
  - valid and reliable tools for providing care and services can be selected; and - The effectiveness of physical, psychological, and social interventions and services (including drug, non-drug and surgical) and the transition through each stage of care and services can be assessed.
• Contributes to and leads joint reviews of health care and services through peer reviews, audits and evaluations of safety, quality, and health outcomes, making sure people's voices are at the heart of the process.

• Implement, establish and evaluate systems and measures to show progress, listening to feedback from key stakeholders across every level of the system.
• Leads risk management in unpredictable and complex situations, and where a precedent has not been set.
• Develops and implements evidence-based practice and improvement of quality, safety, and health and service outcomes.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates care and service pathways, standards, policies, guidelines, procedures, service improvement and practice accreditation.
• Ensures formal systems are in place for collecting and reviewing feedback from patients and service users, carers, and staff across services, working with service teams to identify and action any feedback.
• Engages local people, carers, and service users in developing, evaluating, and improving services.
• Collaborate with and contribute to professional bodies, clinical networks, commissioners, regional and national level, third sectors, charities, and other partners.
• Prescribe and support clinical prescribing within the organisation as appropriate to role and professional regulation.
• Work within the practition scope of practice, acknowledging own limitations, seeking advice and referral to other health and social professionals/services.
• Role model high quality safe and effective person-centered care to patients across care pathway.

• Current UK Healthcare Professional Registration, Masters' healthcare qualification, Recognised clinical practice qualification, Independent Prescriber qualification (as per legislative authority and annotation on professional register), Management/Leadership qualification, Teaching and Assessing qualification/equivalent, Evidence of CPD
• PhD or working towards, Good Clinical Practice (GCP)

• Evidence of advanced/senior level working, Extensive post registration experience within speciality area, Experience in service leadership/management/ quality improvement, Proven record of leading and effectively managing change, Experience of waste reduction, resource and budget resource management, Experience of governance, Experience in applying research, Evidence of teaching and supervision
• Conference presentation, Journal publications, Management of clinical case load

• Sound knowledge of professional priorities and issues, Knowledgeable clinician with ability to ensure clinical governance and safeguarding is…