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Main area
Haematology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
319-6415063SC
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wansbeck General Hospital
Town
Ashington
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Haematology Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Individual to join our Specialist Haematology Nursing Team within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a highly motivated nurse specialist to work within our dynamic well-established team. The successful candidate will be working alongside the senior Haematology Nurse specialists, ACP's and Consultant Haematology team providing a first-class service for patients with malignant and non-malignant Haematological diagnosis.

The role encompasses ensuring the delivery of a seamless pathway of care from diagnosis to treatment, pre-habilitation, and, where necessary, to palliative care. Acting as Key Worker to assess and support the holistic needs of patients, relatives/carers whilst working within the specialist multidisciplinary team to deliver evidence based care. This is a high profile exciting role and provides an excellent opportunity to transfer existing skills, knowledge and experience.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work within the Haematology Team based at the Wansbeck Hospital, however, will be required to support other hospital sites within the Organisation. The post holder will ensure patients have access to specialised services and will provide specialist advice and support to this group of patients who have malignant and non-malignant Haematological Disease and complex care needs. Working alongside the Clinical Haematology Nurse specialists, ACP and Consultant team, you would be responsible for Planning, Implementing and Reviewing patient care pathways. You would be required to work within the  Out-patient setting acting as a Key Worker to assess and support the holistic needs of patients, relatives/carers whilst working within the specialist multidisciplinary team to deliver evidence based care. The role also entails the running of Nurse Led and clinics ensuring relevant treatments are prescribed and distributed safely and on time as well as monitoring side effects and provision of supportive therapy.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To act as the patients’ key worker, developing a professional relationship and to provide support at diagnosis through to treatment and beyond to survivorship or end-of-life.
  • To provide professional advice on Haematological issues and be a resource of clinical expertise for other healthcare professionals within the Trust.
  • To co-ordinate the patient's care pathway and promote personalised care.
  • To contribute to service development in regard to the Haematology nursing service.
  • To liaise with Multi-disciplinary colleagues to ensure best practice and safe and high quality care is provided.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 1st level Registered Nurse
  • Non-medical prescribing of blood products or willingness to undertake
  • Clinical skills qualification or willingness to undertake
  • Non-medical prescribing or willingness to undertake
  • Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
  • Degree level qualification
  • Registered mentor

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lisa Maguire
Job title
Assistant Services Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07887658790
Additional information

Amanda Walshe

[email protected]

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Mobile 0777 433 3308

Tel: 0191 2932513

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