Job overview
The role of the renal supportive care/anaemia nurse is to work alongside a team dedicated to supporting and improving the quality of life of renal patients. It includes those patients undergoing renal replacement therapy, conservative kidney management and those patients with chronic kidney disease.
Main duties of the job
You will be supported to ensure that a systematic approach is used to identify patients who may be within the last year of their life, maintain a supportive care register and instigate advance care planning conversations. Coordination of care across and outside the network.
The anaemia aspect of the role will include optimisation of renal anaemia, through patient engagement, monitoring and management of erythropoietin stimulating agents and iron therapy.
The successful applicant will be encouraged to partcipate in audit, service improvement and quality improvement projects.
Work will be across all sites in the network, including Oxford, Swindon, Milton Keynes, High Wycombe, Aylesbury and Banbury depending on location of the successfully appointed person.
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. Find out more here
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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