Job summary
AtThe Harborne Hospital, were not just opening a new Haematology service were building a centre of excellence at the heart of Birmingham. This is your chance to be part of something exceptional from the very beginning.
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Haematology, you will have a unique opportunity to shape a brand-new service in one of the UK's most advanced healthcare settings. The Harborne Hospital is the latest addition toHCA Healthcare UKs growing networkand our fourth NHS Joint Venture.
This purpose-built, state-of-the-art facility features 50 private beds and cutting-edge clinical technology. From Cardiology to Complex Surgery and Cancer Care, we are redefining patient-centred private healthcare in the Midlands.
We are now looking for an experienced, compassionate, and forward-thinking Clinical Nurse Specialist with a strong background in Haematology and Cancer Care to help lead the way in this exciting new phase.
Main duties of the job
Youll play a vital role in the care journey of our patients, many of whom will be navigating difficult diagnoses. Your expertise will guide them through treatment options, emotional challenges, and complex care pathways. Youll work collaboratively with a dedicated multidisciplinary team of consultants, nurses, and allied health professionals, ensuring that every patient receives outstanding, holistic care.
This is more than a clinical role its a chance to drive service innovation. Youll contribute to patient pathway development, clinical audits, quality improvement projects, and ongoing research that shapes the future of haematological cancer care in the region.
We know what matters to you. At HCA UK, we care about creating a working environment where your professional growth, personal wellbeing, and clinical passion are fully supported. We value your experience and commitment to excellence and were ready to invest in both.
To thrive in this role, you will be a Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration, and bring proven experience as a CNS in Haematology, ideally with a background in cancer care. Your communication skills, emotional intelligence, and ability to lead and support patients and colleagues alike will make you an integral part of this new and evolving service.
Be at the forefront of Haematology care. Build something extraordinary with us at The Harborne Hospital
About us
Why HCA UK?
Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the worlds leading healthcare providers. In the UK, were one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.
We believe that by caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. Thats why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day. As a Haematology Clinical Nurse Specialist, youll be eligible for:
- 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you
- Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals
- Private pension contribution which increases with length of service
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme
- Group Life Assurance from day one
- Critical illness cover
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
- Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland
- Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you
- Discounts with over 800 major retailers
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
Clinical Nurse Specialist
JOB PROFILE SUMMARY.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist is responsible for supporting patients throughout their illness, from pre-diagnosis onwards, so that the patient is well supported throughout. This is often referred to as a key worker.
They care for patients throughout their diagnosis and treatment. They take a key role in supporting the patients during their treatment and are an important member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT). The Clinical Nurse Specialist is a critical and consistent contact point for patients who often will need to interact with different parts of the hospital in order to receive optimal treatment.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will;
- Build trust with the physicians and patients through multidisciplinary care coordination.
- Assist in educating patients about their disease so they can make informed decisions about their care.
- Provide emotional support to the patient, family and caregivers.
- Signpost patients to support networks, internally and externally.
- Advocate for the patient in development of the treatment plan.
- Manage a caseload within their own scope of practice, with support from the wider clinical team.
III
Clinical
- Be a key worker throughout the patient pathway, regardless of facility and when the patient is transferred between facilities for different treatments.
- Manage a clinical caseload, working to coordinate care and provide easy access for ongoing support for patients.
- Work within a clear care pathway, refer to other professionals and signpost to other agencies as appropriate.
- Assess the patients holistic needs regularly throughout their treatment pathway ensuring that any needs are supported through appropriate signposting
- Promote self-management, risk stratifying patients into who can self-manage following education, those who will need guided support to self-manage and those who will require ongoing, face to face support, in order to support people to live with and beyond the illness and its treatment.
- Assess the patients information needs and make sure they are aware of the full range of resources and services available within and beyond HCA, including recognised charities.
- Support the patient, their next of kin and family/carers delivering excellent evidence based individualised and personalised care.
- Enable patients to understand complex medical information to help them make informed decisions regarding their care and treatment.
- Demonstrate safe clinical judgement in evaluating, interpreting and documenting the outcomes of nursing and other interventions including the evidence underpinning clinical practice.
- Order and analyse routine investigations relevant to clinical specialty, with appropriate training.
- Respect patient dignity and privacy at all times, in line with the NMC code of conduct and the HCA privacy and dignity policy.
- Facilitate and organise a patient support group.
Leadership and Management.
- Continuously evaluates nursing practice and makes changes where appropriate to drive service improvement.
- Contribute to the management and promotion of services, leading to the delivery of high quality, cost effective care
- Take responsibility for implementing and monitoring specific delegated improvement projects.
- Participate in clinical audit within the department and changing practice where appropriate.
- Support in the development of patient focused education, including training to self-manage ongoing consequences of treatment
- Promote patient and public experience feedback through local initiatives to drive innovation and change.
- Responsible for effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway.
- A role model with advanced communication skills and expertise.
- Skilled in conflict resolution and negotiation when dealing with difficult or challenging situations
- Work across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem solving
- Provide clinical leadership to others
- Actively participate in multi-professional meetings, acting as patient advocate and representing nursing and AHP views
- Provide specialist education and training to other professionals involved in patient care.
- Collates and records quantitative and qualitative data to provide evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality, through audit and research.
- Support the development of the service annual report.
- Engage with Lead nurses to contribute expertise and experience to supports service priorities.
- Promote the service and clinical excellence by contributing to publishing and presenting innovations, audit and research locally, regionally and nationally.
- Demonstrate continuous evaluation of nursing practice and make changes where appropriate
- Responsible for escalating concerns in treatment or care through the appropriate channels
- Lead on clinical incident investigations relevant to clinical area, and share learning.
Care Documentation.
- You are required to adhere to the NMC code of Conduct (2015) and all records must be clear and accurate and relevant to your practice.
- All documentation must be written in a timely manner.
All Staff should ensure that:
- good IPC practice is appropriately embedded into their work.
- their actions minimise risks to health and safety and contribute to positive and safe practice.
All Staff providing care to patients and/or who work in the patient environment should be competent to:
- assess risks related to IPC in the workplace and take appropriate actions.
- provide safe and effective care to patients as appropriate to the scope of their role.
- provide optimal IPC practice as an integral part of their day-to-day working.
All CNSs must ensure that:
- actions are taken to prevent, and control infection and that these are appropriate, safe and are recorded and monitored. in accordance with the expectations of their clinical specialty.
- appropriate action is taken following a serious health and social care associated infection incident (staff and patients), and that any learning is implemented and disseminated.
- effective and appropriate reporting mechanisms and audit procedures are responsibly implemented.
Mandatory / Reporting.
- Be vigilant about patient confidentiality; ensuring that exchange of information takes place safely in accordance with Information Governance and Caldicott principles.
- Adhere to HCA policies, guidelines and procedures and report to the appropriate superior if objectives cannot be met or a problem occurs, the resolution of which is outside the scope of his/her authority.
- Work at all times within the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice and relevant HCA Policy and Guidelines.
IV. BUSINESS SCOPE Use this section to give an indication of the affect the role has on the business. This may be that it has budget authority or manage a key function. Does the role have a strategic input to the business?
Develop trust with the physicians and patients through multidisciplinary care coordination
Assist in educating patients about their disease so they can make informed decisions about their care
Provide emotional support to the patient, family and caregivers
Improve access and utilization of HCA and any partnered resources
Advocate for the patients voice in development of the treatment plan
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
Clinical Nurse Specialist
JOB PROFILE SUMMARY.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist is responsible for supporting patients throughout their illness, from pre-diagnosis onwards, so that the patient is well supported throughout. This is often referred to as a key worker.
They care for patients throughout their diagnosis and treatment. They take a key role in supporting the patients during their treatment and are an important member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT). The Clinical Nurse Specialist is a critical and consistent contact point for patients who often will need to interact with different parts of the hospital in order to receive optimal treatment.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will;
- Build trust with the physicians and patients through multidisciplinary care coordination.
- Assist in educating patients about their disease so they can make informed decisions about their care.
- Provide emotional support to the patient, family and caregivers.
- Signpost patients to support networks, internally and externally.
- Advocate for the patient in development of the treatment plan.
- Manage a caseload within their own scope of practice, with support from the wider clinical team.
III
Clinical
- Be a key worker throughout the patient pathway, regardless of facility and when the patient is transferred between facilities for different treatments.
- Manage a clinical caseload, working to coordinate care and provide easy access for ongoing support for patients.
- Work within a clear care pathway, refer to other professionals and signpost to other agencies as appropriate.
- Assess the patients holistic needs regularly throughout their treatment pathway ensuring that any needs are supported through appropriate signposting
- Promote self-management, risk stratifying patients into who can self-manage following education, those who will need guided support to self-manage and those who will require ongoing, face to face support, in order to support people to live with and beyond the illness and its treatment.
- Assess the patients information needs and make sure they are aware of the full range of resources and services available within and beyond HCA, including recognised charities.
- Support the patient, their next of kin and family/carers delivering excellent evidence based individualised and personalised care.
- Enable patients to understand complex medical information to help them make informed decisions regarding their care and treatment.
- Demonstrate safe clinical judgement in evaluating, interpreting and documenting the outcomes of nursing and other interventions including the evidence underpinning clinical practice.
- Order and analyse routine investigations relevant to clinical specialty, with appropriate training.
- Respect patient dignity and privacy at all times, in line with the NMC code of conduct and the HCA privacy and dignity policy.
- Facilitate and organise a patient support group.
Leadership and Management.
- Continuously evaluates nursing practice and makes changes where appropriate to drive service improvement.
- Contribute to the management and promotion of services, leading to the delivery of high quality, cost effective care
- Take responsibility for implementing and monitoring specific delegated improvement projects.
- Participate in clinical audit within the department and changing practice where appropriate.
- Support in the development of patient focused education, including training to self-manage ongoing consequences of treatment
- Promote patient and public experience feedback through local initiatives to drive innovation and change.
- Responsible for effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway.
- A role model with advanced communication skills and expertise.
- Skilled in conflict resolution and negotiation when dealing with difficult or challenging situations
- Work across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem solving
- Provide clinical leadership to others
- Actively participate in multi-professional meetings, acting as patient advocate and representing nursing and AHP views
- Provide specialist education and training to other professionals involved in patient care.
- Collates and records quantitative and qualitative data to provide evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality, through audit and research.
- Support the development of the service annual report.
- Engage with Lead nurses to contribute expertise and experience to supports service priorities.
- Promote the service and clinical excellence by contributing to publishing and presenting innovations, audit and research locally, regionally and nationally.
- Demonstrate continuous evaluation of nursing practice and make changes where appropriate
- Responsible for escalating concerns in treatment or care through the appropriate channels
- Lead on clinical incident investigations relevant to clinical area, and share learning.
Care Documentation.
- You are required to adhere to the NMC code of Conduct (2015) and all records must be clear and accurate and relevant to your practice.
- All documentation must be written in a timely manner.
All Staff should ensure that:
- good IPC practice is appropriately embedded into their work.
- their actions minimise risks to health and safety and contribute to positive and safe practice.
All Staff providing care to patients and/or who work in the patient environment should be competent to:
- assess risks related to IPC in the workplace and take appropriate actions.
- provide safe and effective care to patients as appropriate to the scope of their role.
- provide optimal IPC practice as an integral part of their day-to-day working.
All CNSs must ensure that:
- actions are taken to prevent, and control infection and that these are appropriate, safe and are recorded and monitored. in accordance with the expectations of their clinical specialty.
- appropriate action is taken following a serious health and social care associated infection incident (staff and patients), and that any learning is implemented and disseminated.
- effective and appropriate reporting mechanisms and audit procedures are responsibly implemented.
Mandatory / Reporting.
- Be vigilant about patient confidentiality; ensuring that exchange of information takes place safely in accordance with Information Governance and Caldicott principles.
- Adhere to HCA policies, guidelines and procedures and report to the appropriate superior if objectives cannot be met or a problem occurs, the resolution of which is outside the scope of his/her authority.
- Work at all times within the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice and relevant HCA Policy and Guidelines.
IV. BUSINESS SCOPE Use this section to give an indication of the affect the role has on the business. This may be that it has budget authority or manage a key function. Does the role have a strategic input to the business?
Develop trust with the physicians and patients through multidisciplinary care coordination
Assist in educating patients about their disease so they can make informed decisions about their care
Provide emotional support to the patient, family and caregivers
Improve access and utilization of HCA and any partnered resources
Advocate for the patients voice in development of the treatment plan
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
- Proven experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Haematology, ideally with cancer care experience.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
- Proven experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Haematology, ideally with cancer care experience.
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).
