The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
We are pleased to offer you the opportunity of a 9 month secondment for maternity cover within the Renal Transplant Specialist Nurses team. This is a temporary 37.5 hours per week, full time post.
You will need to have recent renal experience and an eagerness to learn a new role.
The Renal Specialist Transplant nursing team at SATH is responsible for educating renal patients and families about their transplant options, coordinating their transplant assessment, and listing them on the national kidney transplant list in a timely manner. This includes working with the CKD nurses at both Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital. We also work closely with Shrewsbury, Hollinswood House, and Ludlow Hospital dialysis units, and our Home Therapies team, which includes home haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, team working skills, and will be dedicated to improving the patient's experience. You will need to demonstrate good performance and be able to work to tight time constraints on a regular basis.
Main duties of the job
You will have access to a mentor in your new role to help you develop a solid knowledge base of the transplant service at SATH. The post holder will provide a service for patients prior to renal transplantation. They will be responsible for timely listing of patients on the cadaveric transplant list and work with the pre-dialysis team to improve pre-emptive renal transplant numbers. The post holder will address the specific needs of these patients and work collaboratively with the Consultant Nephrologists and the Transplant coordinators at Birmingham.
They will be a competent practitioner and demonstrate clinical expertise. They will identify potential donors for assessment for renal transplantation and improve live donor kidney transplant numbers. Liaise with patients and relatives regarding the process for contacting either the transplant nurses at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals or the Transplant coordinators and Transplant team at Birmingham. To update and maintain the transplant database on a regular basis. Take responsibility for performing regular audits of transplant service and ensuring the Renal Association Recommendations are met.
Be instrumental in establishing, implementing, and maintaining evidence-based care pathways to facilitate effective cadaveric transplant listing and live donor transplant work-up. To develop and become competent in running nurse-led pre-transplantation clinics and ensure completion of pre-transplant clinical assessment.
Person Specification
Experience
* Renal experience
* Band 6 experience
* Competent with IT
* Physical assessment course
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Post-registration relevant renal experience
* High level clinical skills and renal knowledge
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Evidence of coordinating, managing, and leading the team
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.
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