Lead Nurse

3 months ago

Middlesbrough, United Kingdom NHS Blood and Transplant Full time

Job summary

Are you a registered nurse with relevant experience in an appropriate clinical area, such as Haematology, Neurology, Acute Medicine/Surgery, ICU/CCU or Haemodialysis/Apheresis?

Do you have experience of mentoring, teaching and clinical/ward management and are passionate about leadership?

If yes, then this could be the career for you

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) provide vital services to the NHS, improving patient outcomes and saving lives. We have a fantastic opportunity for you to become part of our essential and cutting-edge work by joining our Therapeutic Apheresis Services team (TAS).

TAS provide lifesaving and life enhancing treatments to adults and children across a range of clinical specialities using technology that exchanges, removes or collects certain components of the blood.

Our TAS Units currently provide these specialist patient treatments from eight units based within NHS Trusts across England. This post is for our TAS base in Middlesborough, based at The James Cook University Hospital. This will be working alongside our TAS Leeds team who are based at St James Hospital.

As the Lead Nurse you will manage and be the clinical leader within a defined area for the provision of safe TAS.

No prior knowledge of therapeutic apheresis is required because in-house full training will be given. However, success in this role will depend on excellent communication skills to develop and build relationships, integrating your team within a new structure.

Main duties of the job

The Lead Nurse - Therapeutic Apheresis Services is responsible for ensuring the delivery of Therapeutic Apheresis services for NHS patients and facilitating the collection of special donations within Donor Services within a designated region. Your responsibilities include:

Managing and leading the team within a defined area for the provision of the safe and effective Therapeutic Apheresis Service (TAS). Being responsible for all aspects of nursing and clinical care of patients, ensuring a safe environment. Being responsible for the clinical standards of the nursing team, ensuring best practice and clinical effectiveness are achieved within the policy frameworks, in conjunction with the Senior Nurse Manager. Being a clinical expert and a source of clinical knowledge and expertise for advice and direction. Communicating effectively with donors on all issues of donation using tact and diplomacy when discussing complex issues those linked to donor selection. The unit is open for routine work between Monday and Friday. There is also an element of on-call required to provide emergency 24-hour cover. On call work may involve travel to different hospitals in the region.

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK.

We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality.

Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Please also view the benefits information sheet which details the benefits of working for NHSBT and the hours of work, salary, leave entitlement etc. for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration; RN1 Adult Nurse level 1, RNA Adult Nurse level 1, and /or RN8 Childrens Nurse level 1 or RNC Childrens Nurse level 1 (which must be maintained). Masters degree or equivalent relevant experience gained working at senior nurse level for a considerable amount of time, showing evidence of career progression in a specialist field. Have had leadership and/or management training or experience equivalent to degree/Diploma level. Possess a teaching / assessment qualification eg ENB 998, Mentorship in Practice, NVQ A1/A2. Evidence of recent post registration/educational learning. Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD).

Experience

Essential

Demonstrate experience of planning, implementing, and evaluating changes in clinical practice at strategic level. Experience of initiating and supporting the professional development of others and yourself. Understand the principles of clinical effectiveness and best practice, and have the ability to initiate changes to service provisions and practices to ensure high standards of clinical care. Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of clinical audit and research. Experience of planning and delivering teaching programmes within a clinical environment. Experience of planning and delivering teaching programmes within a clinical environment. Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).

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