Job Summary
At NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT), we are a unique organisation that saves and improves lives every day. We are on a mission to ensure every patient receives the donation they need.
We are looking for a Lead Nurse to join our Organ & Tissue Donation & Transplantation (OTDT) directorate as a key member of the Tissue Donation Leadership team, focusing on Eye Donation Schemes.
Through professional leadership and stakeholder engagement you will be accountable for UK Eye Donation Schemes, ensuring donation opportunities are maximised against the available donor pool at identified NHS Hospitals.
This unique role enables the successful candidate to utilise their identified leadership skills and clinical expertise in deceased donation, to support the continued development of the schemes in order to meet the need for patients currently awaiting a corneal transplant in the UK.
The successful candidate will have opportunity to develop both as part of a team and as an individual autonomous practitioner, building on existing data collection to continually strengthen clinical practice.
This role provides opportunity for direct line management, internal and external stakeholder engagement with one key aim of meeting the need of patients awaiting a corneal transplant.
Main duties of the job
As service lead, you will be accountable for all UK Eye Donation Schemes ensuring corneal donation opportunities at contractual sites are maximised. You will provide operational and professional leadership to the National Eye Donation Schemes, establishing and maintaining clear communication pathways between the schemes and NHSBT.
You will also:
1. Work collaboratively with OTDT Commissioning colleagues to ensure contractual service needs are realised and always met providing the operational input and professional leadership required.
2. Be innovative in the approach to meet the need for corneas providing leadership for hospital sites to consider a variety of service development options.
3. Provide Professional Nursing Leadership to the in-hospital based Regional Tissue Donation Nurse Specialist(s).
About You
Experience and Knowledge
4. Demonstrate experience of clinical leadership on a team level.
5. Demonstrate experience of planning, implementing and evaluating change.
6. Demonstrate awareness of performance objectives and organisational targets.
7. Demonstrate experience of clinical teaching.
8. Evidence of proven leadership and management experience by influence and direct management.
9. Experience of contribution to development or strategy and service development.
10. Demonstrates an understanding and evidence participation in principles of clinical audit, and data collection.
11. Demonstrates involvement in personal and professional development for self.
12. Demonstrates an awareness of current issues in nursing.
13. Experience of caring for a dying patient.
14. Experience in dealing with bereaved families.
15. Experience in communicating with a wide range of senior professionals internal and external to the organisation.
16. Demonstrable evidence of successful service improvement and implementation of change.
17. Experience in managing and motivating people to deliver corporate strategy and business objectives.
18. Awareness of current professional issues and developments within organ donation, nursing and the NHS.
19. Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of own clinical practice and that of others within a clinical governance framework.
20. Evidence of experience of leading effective change and innovation within teams /across an organisation.
21. Evidence of proven leadership and management experience by influence and direct management.
Qualifications and Training
22. Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration.
23. Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of specialist knowledge gained through formal training and work experience in clinical research.
24. Possesses a teaching/assessing qualification, e.g. ENB or equivalent.
25. Demonstrate commitment to own Continued Professional Development (CPD)
26. Awareness of current professional issues and developments within deceased donation, nursing and the NHS.