Job summary
- Main area
- Renal
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-6556172
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/10/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Haemodialysis Unit
NHS AfC: Band 7
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist – Haemodialysis who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is home to one of the UK’s largest renal & haemodialysis unit programmes, offering nurses the unique opportunity to work across a wide variety of clinical specialities and to advance their professional development.
The post holder is a recognised expert in the speciality, responsible for assessing, developing, and implementing specialist nursing care programs and undertaking specialist nursing procedures responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff. This includes the provision of specialist education and training for other staff and students responsible for implementing a clearly defined integrated approach to patient care encompassing new treatments and evidence-based care. Required to undertake research and lead clinical audits in own specialist area.
Our Values are Include, Respect, and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist you will be assessing individual patient care needs, medications.
Develop, implement, and evaluate clinical management plans of care for a group of patients dialysing in centre or at our satellite units in accordance with agreed policies and professional guidelines.
In the absence of senior staff, taking responsibility for the delegation and supervision of appropriate work to other qualified staff, healthcare support workers and students.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse educated to Degree level or willingness to undertake
- Post registration qualification in renal specialty.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Advanced clinical assessment.
- Non-medical prescribing.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in caring for patients requiring hemodialysis treatment.
- Ability to act on own initiative with evidence of sound decision making abilities.
- Involvement in audit/research and willingness to present findings at meetings and conferences.
- Knowledge in quality assurance of patient dialysis treatment.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Physiological assessment of acutely unwell patients.
- Ability to communicate effectively – excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage potentially difficult situations
- Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments.
- Ability to develop own skills and knowledge.
- Demonstrate a flexible approach, able to react to the changing needs of the department.
- Ability to liaise and work with the multidisciplinary team, making recommendations to enhance the smooth running and management of the unit.
- Ability to manage self and others in delivery of own work and related clinical outcomes to meet department expectations.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Patient focused – committed to ensuring a positive hospital experience for patients and the relatives/carers.
- Awareness of professional boundaries.
- Understanding of critical care.
- Ability to support and mentor learners.
- Understanding of risk management, health and safety and other clinical governance issues.
- Knowledge of local and national health care initiatives/innovation to improve patient care, experience and safety.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Betty Sunil
- Job title
- Renal Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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