Job summary
We are recruiting for a Haemato-oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are committed to consistently providing specialised, excellent care and treatment and wish to continue in our drive to further improve the service to our patients.
As a Haemato-oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist you will need to understand complex haematological conditions, possess excellent communication skills and have an understanding of both local and national guidance relevant to the speciality, including an awareness and exposure to research.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
This includes provision of care through screening programmes, nurse-led clinics, accepting referrals, undertaking diagnostic procedures, undertaking therapeutic procedures, physical assessments and obtaining written consent to treatment.
Providing assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating care, as an autonomous practitioner with specialist skills. Where applicable and qualified as a Nurse Independent Prescriber, prescribe any drugs within clinical competencies.
Referring patients directly to specialists in other professions and providing expert specialist clinical advice for patients, carers and health care professionals.
Carrying a caseload, and responsibility for the management of complex cases.
Improving and maintaining standards of care within the speciality.
Developing the skills of generalist nurses, and other health professionals (including doctors) to enable them to provide a high standard of care for patients within the speciality.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
1. The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
2. New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
3. Hertford County, Hertford
4. Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
5. Registered Nurse educated to Degree level or willingness to undertake
6. Post registration qualification in Haematology
7. Evidence of continuous professional development.
8. Teaching qualification
9. Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
10. Advanced clinical assessment
Desirable
11. Research Module Masters Degree
Previous Experience
Essential
12. Significant relevant experience in Haematology and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
13. Accept personal accountability for own practice
14. Experience of formal/informal teaching
15. Experience of initiating change
16. Understanding of evidence-based practice
17. Understanding of Clinical Governance
18. Understand of patient pathways its complexities and how to support the patient through this
Skills
Essential
19. Good verbal and written communication skills
20. Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
21. Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due workload and colleagues' needs
22. Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
23. Leadership skills
24. Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time-management
25. Effective interpersonal skills
26. Ability to lead developments in practice
27. Commitment to multidisciplinary working
28. Demonstrate analytical and judgmental skills
29. Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly
Desirable
30. Advanced Communication skills
31. Bone Marrow aspiration and trephine
32. Skin tunnelled line removal