Haematology Nurse Specialist

1 Full time Permanent post

1 Full time Fixed Term / Secondment - 6 months

We have an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic Individuals 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.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Please note: for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval from your current manager and have completed documentation required beforehand (see secondment policy) , as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

Job description

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

• 1st level Registered Nurse
• Degree level qualification
• Registered mentor or willingness to work towards within 18 months
• Non-medical prescribing or willingness to undertake
• Clinical skills qualification or willingness to undertake
• Non-medical prescribing of blood products or willingness to undertake
• Accredited Haematology Course or willingness to undertake

Desirable

• Leadership and management course

Experiance

Essential

• Substantial nursing experience and/or evidence of relevant speciality

Desirable

• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools

Other

Essential

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

About the employer

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.