Senior Staff Nurse -Apheresis

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team! The successful candidate will co-ordinate and organize all donor (stemcell, lymphocyte) and therapeutic (plasma exchange,leucodepletion, red cell exchange) apheresis services,procedures, investigations and consent.

Youwill expedite care in a cohesive and safe manner that meets accreditation standards. You will provide information, support and advice to the patient, family, multi-disciplinary clinical teams, referringhospitals and the community. This involves both inpatient andoutpatient care, ensuring the patient has all medical, nursing,physical, psychological and social needs addressed.

Main duties of the job

Apheresis Nurse band 6 An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new band 6 nurse with excellent venepuncture and cannulation skills who would like to further their career in Haematology. We are a leading centre for red cell exchange with history dating back to 1995. The successful applicant will join a highly skilled specialist team that offer Apheresis procedures such as autologous and allogeneic stem cell collection , leukodepletion and therapeutic plasma exchanges to a number of different specialities at St Georges. Full training will be given as well as training in ultra sound guided cannulation. Once trained the post holder will be expected to join the 24 hour on call service. The post holder will be expected to provide and maintain high standards of care to our adult and paediatric patients, be able to work autonomously as well as part of a cohesive team, have excellent communication skills and work within the multi - disciplinary team. They will demonstrate the ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to this highly specialist group of patients. Be able to organise and prioritise their own work load, to work within an environment that requires flexibility and the need to work under pressure.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.