Pancreas Transplant Specialist Nurse (NHS AfC: Band 6) - Transplant Specialist Nurses - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Headington, Oxfordshire
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 nurse to join the Pancreas Transplant Nurse Specialist Team at the Oxford Transplant Centre. You will be based in Oxford in an outpatient setting, the role involves covering peripheral outreach clinics so a full current driving license is essential. You will be working as part of a MDT and, after appropriate training, an autonomous practitioner.
The success of our team is down to our supportive and compassionate ethos and the trust we have with each other. We are looking for someone who is a great team player, shares our ethos and is dedicated and flexible with their approach to work. Excellent communication, problem solving and time management skills are a necessity.
The post holder could have a renal nursing background or experience of caring for people with long term health needs.
Within three months of starting this post, and following a supportive period of training, you will join the recipient coordinator on call rota, providing a 24hr service, including weekends and bank holidays, coordinating all transplant offers for Oxford recipients.
Key Responsibilities:
* Accept patient referrals to agreed criteria and be identified as the key worker for an agreed patient/client caseload.
* Provide advice, education and support to patients, their carers and other health care professionals.
* Practice clinically in agreed care settings according to approved protocols or guidance.
* Contribute to the smooth running of the designated service.
* Liaise with other hospital and community teams along an agreed pathway to support the delivery of patient and family centred seamless care.
* Contribute to the ongoing development of the designated service.
Job Summary:
The Pancreas Transplant Nurse Specialist role is to assist in the coordination and management of patients within the Oxford Transplant Centre that are undergoing assessment and work up for a Pancreas transplant. The role involves conducting patient consultations addressing clinical, psychological and social needs under the supervision of the Lead Pancreas transplant nurse with clinician support. This may include clinics during the week and occasionally at weekends in outreach and referring centres as well as within OUH. The post holder also works within the wider Transplant Specialist Nurse team providing on call transplant recipient coordination 8am-8pm and at weekends (occasionally 24 hours).
Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
Clinical:
* Work collaboratively and in partnership with other health care professionals, offering advice to colleagues.
* Attend transplant clinics as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing clinical review assessing health and psychosocial needs of individual patients, and provide care to meet these needs through a process of shared decision making.
* Deliver expert nursing care to patients in agreed practice settings, working as part of nursing/multidisciplinary teams.
* Communicate with patients in ways that empower them to make informed choices about their health and health care.
* Act as advocate for individual patients and their client group when required.
* Provide appropriate education to patients and their families to promote health and encourage self-care.
* Maintain adequate patient documentation to NMC requirements for all patients seen and advice given in any practice setting and contribute to clinical activity/data collection as required.
Management:
* Be involved in developing standards of care, practice guidelines and where appropriate Care Pathways for the patient/client group.
* Contribute to the development and delivery of nurse-led initiatives for the benefit of the identified client group, in conjunction with medical and nursing/AHP colleagues.
* Demonstrate and share clinical practice developments to provide evidence-based care, and contribute to service improvement in accordance with local policy initiatives.
* Support clinical and management teams in the delivery of Trust and Directorate objectives.
Education/Training:
* Maintain, advance and develop personal theoretical knowledge, high standards of clinical competence and professional development through self-education and attendance at relevant courses of study.
* Contribute to the development of specialist nursing knowledge and skills to enhance and extend the practice of other nurses and health care professionals within the service.
Improving quality and developing practice:
* Assist in the evaluation of the service and patient care, including monitoring of patient experience.
* Develop personal and professional knowledge through critical self-appraisal, clinical supervision and networking with other health care professionals locally and nationally.
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