Nurse Specialist Acute Pain

Job summary

Are you an experienced registered nurse with a passion for improving the care of patients experiencing acute and complex pain? We have an opportunity to join the Acute Pain Service at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Nurse Specialist. This is a predominantly clinical role, with at least 80% of your time focused on supporting and managing a specialist caseload.

Working closely with anaesthetists, surgeons, ward teams, pharmacy and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will help deliver safe, evidence‑based and compassionate pain management across the organisation. The post offers a varied mix of direct patient care, specialist advice, education, clinical leadership, audit and service improvement. You will assess and review patients receiving complex pain‑management interventions, including patient‑controlled analgesia, epidural analgesia, local anaesthetic infusions and regional anaesthetic techniques, while supporting patients and colleagues to achieve the best possible outcomes.

You will join a supportive specialist team and have the opportunity to develop your expertise while contributing to the continued development of acute pain services, specialist clinics and education across the Trust.

The post holder will be a clinically based practitioner who will take a supportive role in strengthening the nursing contribution to patients and service users within the speciality across the organisation. In partnership with the multi‑disciplinary team (MDT) the post holder will assist develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service. Using specialist nursing skills; contributes to the management of a caseload of patients referred for specialist intervention, care and support.

The post holder will contribute to the ongoing development of innovative practice, standards of care and strategies to ensure practice development and education for other professionals caring for patients within this speciality.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford‑U‑Pon‑Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston‑on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'.

Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:  We appreciate you completing the survey.

Contribute to the delivery of evidence‑based personalised and compassionate care which places quality at the heart of specialist practice. Care will responsive to individual needs and reflect current local protocols and national guidelines. Act as an accessible professional for the multi‑disciplinary team (MDT) supporting the management of a clinical caseload for at least 80% of the role. This will necessitate a degree of autonomy and advocacy to ensure the delivery of appropriate care.

Contribute to the management of a caseload of patients within speciality and prioritise workload to meet patient and service need. Use knowledge of the speciality and treatment to support the development of personalised care pathways for individuals and assist with holistic needs assessment, planning and…