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Job Overview
Clinical Nurse Specialist for Clinical Haematology. An exciting six month opportunity has arisen for an established Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join the Clinical Haematology Team at Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust.
The successful candidate will work as part of our multi-disciplinary team, ensuring delivery of a consistently high quality and compassionate service to a broad patient population including both cancer and non-malignant related diagnoses.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, experienced and motivated nurse with excellent organisation and communication skills. It would be desirable for the successful candidate to have significant knowledge and experience of haematological conditions.
You would be joining a Haematology team that prides itself on its ability to deliver individualised compassionate care for patients and relatives and for its own team.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Alessandra Bartlett via email at alessandra.bartlett@nbt.nhs.uk.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Nurse Specialist for Clinical Haematology. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 (depending on experience) Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join the Clinical Haematology Team at Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust.
The successful candidate will work as part of our multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of a consistently high quality and compassionate service to a broad patient population including both cancer and non-malignant related diagnoses.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, experienced and motivated nurse with excellent organisation and communication skills. It would be desirable for the successful candidate to have significant knowledge and experience of haematological conditions.
You would be joining a Haematology team that prides itself on its ability to deliver individualised compassionate care for patients and relatives and also for its own team.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Alessandra Bartlett via email at alessandra.bartlett@nbt.nhs.uk.
Working for our organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialties. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services. North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals and is committed to being anti-discriminatory. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Generic
* To provide highly specialist nursing advice underpinned by theory and experience to support patients and their families/carers
* To plan, develop, improve and promote the service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care
* To act as an autonomous practitioner, independently planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care achieved through systematic and holistic assessment, clinical examination skills, personalised care planning and independent onward referral and discharge to primary care team
* To provide patients and staff with highly developed specialist advice to manage complex symptoms
* To develop and share expertise within the multidisciplinary team
* To develop and utilise the skills and expertise to act as a resource in the care of patients needs, ensuring an optimum level of service to patients and their carers
* To work closely with community and network, other hospital and community staff to ensure an effective seamless service
* To deploy high level skills in order to provide effective communication systems of support for patients
* To develop and utilise the skills needed to embed patient and public involvement within the sphere of specialist nursing practice
* To ensure that all patients and families are aware of all treatment options, including clinical trials
* To transcribe radiology requests on ICE following successful completion of the IR(M)E training course
* To work as patient advocate, to help negotiate the patient journey and ensure optimum care is provided to each patient
* To nurture and maintain links with other health care agencies and organisations providing support and information to patients
* To adhere to and promote infection control guidelines and procedures
* To act as a positive role model for nurses in the hospital through excellent communication and clinical skills
* To expertly deliver highly complex sensitive condition related information to patients and relatives
* To provide specialist support and advice in clinical areas, wards and outpatients to optimise quality improvement opportunities
* To analyse and respond to challenging and complex clinical situations using highly developed specialist knowledge and analytical skills to assess options and formulate solutions
* To act as a change agent, motivating and reassuring staff through negotiation and training to facilitate the change process
Specific requirements of the post
* Provide education and support for patients receiving oral and/or parenteral chemotherapy including consent for treatment
* Use of protocols, specialist knowledge and examination skills to assess patients in follow-up and pre-chemotherapy clinics
* Authorisation of blood products following successful completion of National Blood Service training course
* Provide telephone support for haematology cancer patients before, during and after chemotherapy treatment
* Perform bone marrow biopsies following successful completion of programme of training
* Undertake non-medical prescribing following successful completion of programme of training
Education
* To lead on and participate in the planning and delivery of formal and informal specialist education programmes for patients, carers and all staff
* To lead on and participate in education forums locally
* To ensure that professional knowledge and practice is regularly updated
* To take personal responsibility for lifelong learning and personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal and Knowledge and Skills Framework
Research and Audit
* To collate and record quantitative and qualitative data that provides evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality, through audit and research
* To regularly lead on and participate in clinical audit and research
* To promote a culture of evidence based practice
* To be involved with health promotion
Management and Leadership
* To lead on policy and service development within a multidisciplinary team context
* To lead on the development and implementation of protocols for specialist area of work and for the wider healthcare community served by North Bristol NHS Trust
* To be responsible for gathering, analysis and evaluation of patient and other feedback to inform ongoing improvement in the patient experience in the specialist area
* To provide professional leadership for band 6 specialist nurses and be a role model in relation to nursing in the specialist area
* To be responsible for developing and coordinating job plans to maximise team effectiveness and efficiency
* To plan the provision of day to day organisational tasks for self and others
* To manage a highly complex caseload based on flexible principles, priorities and the care needs of patients
* To lead on responding to complaints and queries, and have a working awareness of North Bristol NHS Trust’s complaints procedure
To maintain accurate and concise records that produce statistical data for the purpose of evaluation and development of the service
* To coordinate the collection of information and data required for annual reports and national peer review in collaboration with cancer services
* To keep accurate and up to date patient records
* To be responsible for the effective, efficient and safe use, maintenance and storage of resources and equipment used in the performance of the role
Person specification
Education and training
Essential criteria
* RN
* Relevant post graduate qualification
* Registered teaching qualification
Desirable criteria
* Independent prescriber
Work experience
Essential criteria
* 5 years or more post registration experience
* Relevant post basic experience with cancer services
* Experience of audit / research
Knowledg e skills and experience
Essential criteria
* Excellent interpersonal communication skills
* Excellent assessment skills to cope with highly complex acute and chronic patient conditions
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North Bristol NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity and to being fair and inclusive, encouraging applications from candidates underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above, including people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.
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