Job summary
We are recruiting for a Chronic Kidney Disease CNS who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You should be a recognised expert in the specialty, responsible for assessing, developing and implementing specialist nursing care programmes and undertaking specialist nursing procedures.
As a registered nurse and role model part of your role will be to mentor and supervise others including students and to support your colleagues in delivering excellent quality patient centred care.
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
Applicants must have significant CKD/AKC experience demonstrating an ability to work autonomously. Effectively manage your own AKC nurse led clinics. You must also demonstrate organisational, interpersonal and management skills particular to the care of renal patients
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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse educated to Degree level or willingness to undertake
- Post registration qualification in speciality
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Teaching qualification.
- Advanced communication skills
Desirable
- Research Module Masters Degree
- Advanced clinical assessment
- Counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant relevan t experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
- Accept personal accountability for own practice
- Experience of formal/informal teaching
- Experience of initiating change
- Understanding evidence-based practice
- Experience of Clinical Governance
- Understanding of patient pathways and it's complexities and how to support patient through this
Skills
Essential
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
- Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to workload and colleague's needs
- Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
- Leadership Skills
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time -management
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead developments in practice
- Commitment to multi-disciplinary working
- Demonstrate analytical and judgemental skills
- Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly
Desirable
- Advanced Communication Skills
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse educated to Degree level or willingness to undertake
- Post registration qualification in speciality
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Teaching qualification.
- Advanced communication skills
Desirable
- Research Module Masters Degree
- Advanced clinical assessment
- Counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant relevan t experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
- Accept personal accountability for own practice
- Experience of formal/informal teaching
- Experience of initiating change
- Understanding evidence-based practice
- Experience of Clinical Governance
- Understanding of patient pathways and it's complexities and how to support patient through this
Skills
Essential
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
- Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to workload and colleague's needs
- Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
- Leadership Skills
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time -management
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead developments in practice
- Commitment to multi-disciplinary working
- Demonstrate analytical and judgemental skills
- Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly
Desirable
- Advanced Communication Skills
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
