Kidney Transplant Specialist

4 weeks ago


Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Oxford University Hospitals Full time

Job Overview

The Kidney Transplant Nurse Specialist role involves the assessment and management of patients referred to the Oxford Transplant Centre for a kidney transplant. The role primarily involves conducting patient consultations addressing clinical, psychological, and social needs under the supervision of the Lead Pancreas transplant nurse with clinician support. The role coordinates the patient pathway from referral to transplant, including management of patients on the kidney transplant waiting list. This may involve clinics during the week and occasionally at weekends in outreach and referring centres as well as within OUH.

Main Duties of the Job

  • Participate in the assessment and follow-up of recipients being considered for kidney transplantation, managing the patient pathway from assessment to activation on the National waiting list or living donor transplant.
  • Participate in pre-operative clinic assessment for living donor recipients.
  • Participate in presentation of patients in multi-disciplinary meetings.
  • Liaise appropriately with referring nephrology teams, ensuring they are kept updated with patient pathway through transplant assessment process.
  • Liaise appropriately with patients, answering any queries in a timely manner, ensuring they are kept updated throughout the assessment process.
  • Contribute to and lead patient transplant seminars.
  • Contribute to the annual review of all patients active on the kidney waiting list.
  • Contribute to the development of the kidney transplant programme.
  • Provide specialist advice, education, training, and/or expertise to other multi-disciplinary teams/staff/groups.
  • Work collegiately with other ANPs managing the different transplant programmes.
  • Participate in the on-call rota for the transplant practitioners.

Working for Our Organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and serving as a base for medical education, training, and research. The trust comprises four hospitals: the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, which focuses on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.



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