Job summary
Employer heading
Myeloid Specialist Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
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.
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.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join the Myeloid team within the Haematology department at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Specialist Nurse.
The Myeloid Team is a multidisciplinary team based at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. It provides care for our local patients and tertiary level care for the Thames Valley region. The team includes several clinical staff of international repute, and the post holder will liaise with our inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory and research units. We believe in patient-centred care, so our patients receive high class, personalised treatment. Patients looked after by the team include those with acute leukaemia (AML and ALL) together with a range of myeloproliferative disorders including CML, myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythaemia and polycythaemia. The treatment of all of these disorders is going through an era of rapid progress and development, so this gives the post-holder the opportunity to help develop a world-leading clinical service for this important group of patients. Training and education in the speciality will be available to the successful applicant.
For more information about the role please contact Monica Jefferson, Deputy Matron for Haematology, on [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Specialist Nurses will:
- Be identified as the key worker for an agreed patient 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 Myeloma service.
- Work across departmental boundaries.
- Liaise with other hospital and community teams along agreed pathways to support the delivery of patient and family centred care.
- Contribute to the on-going development of the Myeloma and wider Haematology service.
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 www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide expert nursing care to patients referred to the myeloid service.
Specifically, this would include:
- Work independently in outpatient clinics with cancer patients throughout their pathways. This may incorporate both independent nurse-led face to face and telephone-based consultations alongside the traditional model of outpatient patient care.
- Liaise closely with other healthcare providers such as DGHs and Community hospitals and GPs to coordinate referrals and ensure effective detailed communication for treatment.
- Provide clinical advice in accordance with current evidence based practice
- Help to co-ordinate clinical care in line with cancer targets. This will involve communicating with the patient and other members of the clinical team in day treatment and clinical wards to deliver treatment pathways.
- Assess the needs of patients, their families, and other carers, in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team, and providing specific advice or support as appropriate utilising local and national guidance and documentation.
- Be a defined point of contact for patients/carers for defined episodes/pathways of care and provide specialist nursing advice and psychosocial support.
- Assess health and psychosocial needs of individual patients, and provide care to meet these needs, through a process of shared decision making.
For full details of the role and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse part 1 or 8 or 12 or 15 of register (depending on area of practice)
- Degree in nursing, midwifery (HEI Level 5 or 6) or equivalent
- Post graduate level working evidenced via a continuing professional development portfolio.
- Teaching / Assessment/ Mentoring qualification
Desirable criteria
- Completed or completing postgraduate level (HEI level 7) study or willing undertake
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates up to date knowledge in the specialty
- Demonstrates clinical experience in relevant area of clinical practice
Skills/abilities
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of formal/informal teaching of patients and staff.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Monica Jefferson
- Job title
- Deputy Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 223847
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