Clinical Nurse Specialist - Transplant

Job overview

With our partners, Imperial College London, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 11 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Due to our expanding services we are seeking to appoint 2 excellent renal Transplant clinical nurse specialists. You will work in one of London’s leading NHS trusts as part of the Renal Transplant outpatients Team. The role will provide diverse opportunities to work closely with multi-disciplinary team’s .If you enjoy caring for a variety of patients in a clinical role, work well under pressure, independently and in a team, with excellent interpersonal and teaching skills then we would like to hear from you.

This is an ideal opportunity for an enthusiastic experience nurse with a high level of clinical competence who is looking to develop their clinical and leadership skills. We are a friendly team who offer a caring and supportive environment in which you can develop further and help us to improve our service for the future.

Main duties of the job

• Act as a clinical expert within your sphere of work
• Carry out planned care for a group of patients without direct supervision
• Ensure the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence based, individualised patient care as appropriate within an outpatient setting.
• To be responsible for reception and appointment functions within the department, ensuring that systems are in place in order that patients are seen in a timely manner.
• Working with identified Consultant Nephrologists ensure that results review/audit and admission planning takes place.
• Assist and advise staff, both registered and unregistered in the delivery of patient care
• Ensure all staff maintain accurate clinical observations of the patient and act accordingly
• Undertake nursing procedures
• Have responsibility for the correct administration and custody of medicines according to Trust policy
• Deal with concerns raised by patients and visitors in a proactive manner and take remedial action as necessary.
• Act as the patient’s advocate
• Oversee effective performance and quality of non-clinical and environmental services that impact on patient care, i.e. portering/domestic services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.