Job summary
We are recruiting for aSpecialist Support Nurse - Renal Transplantwho shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The successful person will be responsible for the provision of high quality, patient focused care by assessing, developing and implementing specialist nursing care programmes. You will be also responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff. At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Support Nurse will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care as a practitioner with specialist skills and provide advice and clinical expertise to other members of staff. You will also be in a position to provide specialist clinical advice for patients and carers. You will be required to carry a caseload, and take responsibility for the management of allocated cases. The post holder will always look to improve and maintain standards of care within the specialty. The successful candidate will also help other nurse's by improving their skills, enabling them to provide the highest standard of care for patients within the specialty.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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 applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Registered nurse
- Relevant experience in renal
- Continuous professional development
- Teaching or mentoring qualification
- Post registration qualification in specialty or willingness to complete
Desirable
Previous Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience in renal
- Demonstrate expert nursing skills
- Evidence of mentorship/preceptorship roles
- Accept personal accountability for own practice
- Experience of formal/informal teaching
Desirable
- Experience within a renal transplant setting
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 both workload and colleagues needs
- Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload
- Effective time management
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Commitment to multidisciplinary working
Desirable
- Assertiveness/perceptive counselling skills
- Documentation, audit and presentation skills
- Leadership skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of managing outpatient caseload of patients
- Knowledge of local and national health care initiatives / innovation to improve patient care, experience and safety
- Understanding of evidence based practice
- Understanding of Clinical Governance
- Understanding and knowledge of specialist field
Desirable
- Computer literate - relevant to renal department
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Registered nurse
- Relevant experience in renal
- Continuous professional development
- Teaching or mentoring qualification
- Post registration qualification in specialty or willingness to complete
Desirable
Previous Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience in renal
- Demonstrate expert nursing skills
- Evidence of mentorship/preceptorship roles
- Accept personal accountability for own practice
- Experience of formal/informal teaching
Desirable
- Experience within a renal transplant setting
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 both workload and colleagues needs
- Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload
- Effective time management
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Commitment to multidisciplinary working
Desirable
- Assertiveness/perceptive counselling skills
- Documentation, audit and presentation skills
- Leadership skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of managing outpatient caseload of patients
- Knowledge of local and national health care initiatives / innovation to improve patient care, experience and safety
- Understanding of evidence based practice
- Understanding of Clinical Governance
- Understanding and knowledge of specialist field
Desirable
- Computer literate - relevant to renal department
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).
