# CNS Team Lead/Coordinator for Stem Cell Transplant & Cellular Therapy > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cns-team-leadcoordinator-for-stem-cell-transplant-and-cellular-therapy/ce715316-226d-4647-9359-a24a37d78b4d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cns-team-leadcoordinator-for-stem-cell-transplant-and-cellular-therapy/ce715316-226d-4647-9359-a24a37d78b4d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 Pa Inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-08T14:15:00.962Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Clinical_Haematology/Clinical_Haematology-v8339619 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8339619?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The adult Haematology service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) is home to one of London's largest JACIE-accredited Stem Cell Transplant (SCT) programmes, performing approximately 170 procedures annually. The portfolio of the transplant unit has further expanded to include CAR-T therapy and other innovative cellular/gene treatments. We are curently reshaping our SCT & Cellular Therapy coordinating team and we are now seeking to recruit a Band 8a CNS Team Lead/Coordinator role to provide additional leadership and strategic direction to the transplant service. This offers an exciting an opportunity for an experienced haematology nurse with relevant SCT and leadership experience to join this evolving clinical service. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior nurse to lead a highly specialised team, supporting patients throughout their transplant journey. The successful candidate will be responsible for the operational management and professional leadership of the team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care across complex treatment pathways. ### Main duties of the job As Team Lead, you will play a key role in shaping future models of care, ensuring services continue to meet and keep pace with the needs of patients receiving SCT, CAR-T and emerging cellular therapies. - Act as CNS team lead for the specialist nursing team, and wider transplant coordinator team, providing expert knowledge resource and strategic leadership. - The post holder will work in close collaboration with the wider Stem Cell Transplant (SCT) specialist teams including SCT Programme Director, Medical SCT coordinators, CNS and Transplant Management teams, supporting the coordination of transplant related treatment pathways across inpatient and ambulatory care settings - To oversee the delivery of specialist nursing service for SCT, other cellular therapy recipients and related donors. - Fulfil the role of clinical nurse specialist (CNS) working as a registered nurse with relevant experience and post-registration education for working at enhanced level. - Work as part of a wider MDT model, leading the CNS team to ensure there is a responsive approach to the rapidly evolving requirements of SCT, cellular therapies and gene-editing requirements. - Manage a defined patient caseload, acting as a key worker and patient advocate, in line with the NHS plan and to actively apply in depth knowledge of holistic/socio economic and cultural aspects of the care to clients within your specific speciality, acting as a role model and resource for patients, relatives and staff. ### 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. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience - Experience of advanced decision making to manage a complex caseload - Experience of teaching and assessing others **Desirable** - Experience of teaching and assessing others - Experience of line managing others ### Education/ qualifications **Essential** - NMC registration. - Post registration qualification(s) in speciality or relevant subject at level 7 (Haemato-oncology) - Degree level education - Recognised teaching/assessing qualification - Leadership and Management course(s) **Desirable** - MSc or MA in related specialty - Advanced physical assessment and clinical reasoning qualification - Psychological assessment course - Non-medical prescribing qualification ### Skills/knowledge/ abilities **Essential** - Able to demonstrate strategic thinking - Able to demonstrate good time management skills and ability to effectively manage a patient caseload - Ability to work autonomously and demonstrate high-level decision making skills in clinical practice - Excellent organisational skills and advanced ICT skills, including Microsoft Office **Desirable** - Advanced IT skills use or Excel/Data management - Ability to design and deliver education programmes. - Ability to lead and influence change ## Documents - [frf (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10663602) - [jd and person spec (pdf, 708.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10663601) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.