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:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• 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

• Registered Nurse educated to Degree level or willingness to undertake
• Post registration qualification in Haematology
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Teaching qualification
• Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
• Advanced clinical assessment

Desirable

• Research Module Masters Degree

Previous Experience

Essential

• Significant relevant experience in Haematology and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
• Accept personal accountability for own practice
• Experience of formal/informal teaching
• Experience of initiating change
• Understanding of evidence-based practice
• Understanding of Clinical Governance
• Understand of patient pathways its complexities and how to support the patient through this

Skills

Essential

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due workload and colleagues' needs
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
• Leadership skills
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload effective time-management
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead developments in practice
• Commitment to multidisciplinary working
• Demonstrate analytical and judgmental skills
• Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly

Desirable

• Advanced Communication skills
• Bone Marrow aspiration and trephine
• Skin tunnelled line removal

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

361-6362539-A