Job summary
An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced nurse to join the Renal Transplantation team as a Band 6 Recipient Transplant Co-ordinator. Based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, providing specialist transplant care and education to patients. Speciliast training will be provided to the successful applicant.
Monitors tissue typing lists for our named centres and completes double checks to ensure everyone is active and suspended as per national and local lists.
Main duties of the job
Specialist training will be provided to work as part of the team:
Team -- manages team and on call rota on a day-to-day basis (off duty, appraisals, complaints etc).
* Implementing NHSBT Midlands collaboration between (Birmingham, Coventry and Oxford).
* Recipient lead for the HTA (inspection booked for August 2025).
* Manges all transplant referrals and organises surgical clinic rota for listing clinic's.
* Manages Stoke, New Cross, Worcester CKD Transplant waiting lists (attends 3 monthly face to face QA meetings for both centres).
* Implementation of pre-transplant TB IGRA/TB spot/Measles IgG testing across the west midlands network.
* Implementation of fast-track kidney offers.
* Implementation of clinical frailty scoring and testing in transplant assessment clinic's.
* On call for all Birmingham and BCH patients that are active on the transplant waiting list.
* Ward Education (drug education, post-transplant education, discharge planning, OPA booking, repatriation to OPA setting or referral centre).
* Transplant listing Clinic's.
* Manage listing MDT.
* Attends HIV MDT.
* Manage transplant list (activations, suspensions, holiday suspensions, removals).
* Live donor triage.
* Manges HTA A forms.
* Manges NHSBT hold bay.
* Presents at in house renal education sessions re: transplantation and various conferences/network meetings.
* Student nurse teaching and education -- Nicki used to lead on this.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC
- registration
- * Educated to degree level or
- equivalent experience.
- * Portfolio of certified / accredited post
- registration professional
- development.
Desirable
- Health Assessment post graduate
- qualification / willingness to work towards
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience with
- evidence of knowledge and
- development for the associated area
- of specialist practice.
- * In depth knowledge of specialist
- procedures required for role, with
- willingness to undertake further
- training/ education to achieve agreed
- level of competence.
- * Knowledge of standards and policies
- associated with role.
- * Experience of working in a multidisciplinary and cross agency work
- environment.
- * Demonstrable understanding of the
- national / NHSE diagnostic/
- therapeutic expectations / strategy
- around endoscopy services and can
- relate this to the role.
- * Demonstrable understanding of
- clinical governance / patient safety
- process's -- can relate this to the role
- in relation to their
- personal/professional accountability.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Acts to support and enable
- teamwork.
- * Cheerful outlook towards supporting
- organisational / service changes,
- learning and continuous quality
- improvement
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC
- registration
- * Educated to degree level or
- equivalent experience.
- * Portfolio of certified / accredited post
- registration professional
- development.
Desirable
- Health Assessment post graduate
- qualification / willingness to work towards
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience with
- evidence of knowledge and
- development for the associated area
- of specialist practice.
- * In depth knowledge of specialist
- procedures required for role, with
- willingness to undertake further
- training/ education to achieve agreed
- level of competence.
- * Knowledge of standards and policies
- associated with role.
- * Experience of working in a multidisciplinary and cross agency work
- environment.
- * Demonstrable understanding of the
- national / NHSE diagnostic/
- therapeutic expectations / strategy
- around endoscopy services and can
- relate this to the role.
- * Demonstrable understanding of
- clinical governance / patient safety
- process's -- can relate this to the role
- in relation to their
- personal/professional accountability.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Acts to support and enable
- teamwork.
- * Cheerful outlook towards supporting
- organisational / service changes,
- learning and continuous quality
- improvement
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
