Job Introduction
Clinical Nurse Specialist Intravenous Therapy Lead - Band 7
Location: Swindon Intermediate Care Centre (SwICC) / Community - postholder may be required to travel across BaNES, Swindon, and Wiltshire.
Job Purpose
This is a high-profile leadership role essential to the ongoing development and provision of community intravenous therapy. You will be the clinical driving force behind the service, ensuring patients receive high-quality, complex care in the community setting rather than a hospital ward.
Key Responsibilities
- Specialist Leadership: Serve as the Specialist Nurse Lead for IV Therapy across the organisation, providing expert, evidence-based advice to clinical staff, clients, and their carers.
- Autonomous Clinical Practice: Manage and prioritise a complex caseload independently. You will deliver and oversee advanced treatments, including blood transfusions, platelets, IV fluids, Venesection, and IV medications.
- Advanced Decision-Making: Act as an autonomous practitioner, utilising independent prescribing (where appropriate) and holistic assessment skills to manage complex therapeutic interventions.
- Role Modelling & Mentorship: Act as a clinical role model, supporting other healthcare professionals in navigating complex decision-making and therapeutic
- management.
- Service Redesign: Lead the development, redesign, and assessment of care pathways to ensure patients requiring community IV therapy receive timely and effective interventions.
- Governance & Policy: Lead the formulation, monitoring, and review of IV therapy policies, standards, and guidelines. You will act as the organisation's expert in implementing and disseminating best-practice changes.
We are looking for a registered nurse with significant experience in IV therapy and the clinical credibility to lead a service at Band 7. You must be comfortable working independently across a wide geographical area (including BaNES and Wiltshire) and possess the leadership skills to influence policy and practice at a senior level.
Package Description
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist Intravenous Therapy Lead you will be part of our valued team in our Adults Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £47,810 - £54,710 (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
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