Job overview
As a Band Clinical Nurse Specialist you will enhance the current post transplant nursing team whilst being responsible for the Total Pancreatectomy and Islet auto Transplant (TPIAT) and Islet allo transplant follow up and work alongside the current band practitioners coordinating and managing all post-transplant care for our patients within the Oxford Transplant Centre. The Oxford Transplant Centre performs around transplants per year; which include allografts of Kidney, Simultaneous Kidney Pancreas (SPK), Pancreas alone (PTA), Simultaneous Islet Kidney (SIK), Islet cell and small bowel / modified multivisceral and autografts of islet cells (TPIAT).
The post holder will provide excellent professional and clinical leadership within transplant follow up promoting the effective delivery of a high standard of nursing care for all transplant recipient patients and contributing to the development of the service, practice and colleagues.
You will work closely with colleagues in the Transplant Nurse Specialist team providing a recipient transplant coordination on-call service /.
Main duties of the job
This is a Band Transplant Nurse Specialist secondment/fixed-term post for an experienced nurse who is already working as band or and would like the opportunity to learn and progress in their clinical and managerial career.
We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic and highly motivated to work within the Transplant specialist service. You will work within an outpatient team of nurses, providing nurse led TPIAT/Ilset and Post Transplant clinics. You will also play an integral role in developing and supporting relationships within the wider transplant team.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Fine out more here
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.