Job summary
- Main area
- Apheresis
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term/Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-B-247459
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division B
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 06/01/2025
Employer heading
Sister/Charge Nurse - Apheresis Ward E10 - Fixed Term/Secondment
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Cambridge University Hospitals for an Apheresis Sister/Charge Nurse. Our Apheresis team delivers a range of life saving and life-enhancing treatments including Plasma Exchange, Red Cell Exchange, Stem Cell Harvest and CAR-T Cell Harvest to adults and children.
We are looking for a passionate and driven registered nurse with knowledge and skills in the field of Adult apheresis.
Acting as a resource and point of reference for patients, donors, relatives, and all members of the multidisciplinary team and primary health care teams involved in the process.
You will play a pivotal role in the training, support and education of colleagues, the co-ordination and scheduling of procedures and act as a link with other members of the multi-disciplinary team involved in the patient's clinical pathway.
Main duties of the job
Assist the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in the overall management of the Apheresis service.
Ensure patients are provided with a safe, individualised, holistic and evidence based care.
Provide leadership to all members of the ward promoting effective teamwork.
Act as Divisional bleep holder.
To educate and teach the nursing staff and to act as a resource for members of the Apheresis Team, patients, carers and members of the multi-professional team within Addenbrooke's Hospital and associated West Anglia Cancer Network.
To provide an on-call service as part of the roster.
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
This vacancy will close at midnight on 23 December 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 6 January 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current registration with NMC
- Chemotherapy competent
- Mentorship
- Evidence of continuous professional development with application.
Desirable criteria
- Degree
- Teaching/ Assessing qualifications
- Course relevant to clinical speciality.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration experience in Apheresis
- Demonstrate expert nursing skills
- Experience in Apheresis setting
- Experience in mentoring and teaching junior staff
- Accepts personal accountability for own practice.
Desirable criteria
- Deputising for Senior Sister/ Senior Charge Nurse in his/her absence
- Experience of shift/ward management in the absence of senior colleagues.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- NMC Code of Conduct and guidelines for professional practice
- Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of nursing care within the clinical area (haemato/oncology)
- Knowledge of care of the Apheresis patient
- Awareness of need to demonstrate a professional appearance and behaviour
- An understanding of the professional nursing agenda.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of broader issues affecting healthcare provision
- Knowledge of Risk management processes
- Health and safety awareness
- Quality issues and clinical governance awareness.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent in management of Apheresis patients
- Ability to manage acutely ill/deteriorating patients
- Ability to provide leadership in order to influence patient care standards
- Ability to transfer skills to other wards and areas in order to fulfil the directorate bleep holder role
- Ability to remain calm and focused under pressure in order to maximise positive outcomes
- Ability to provide effective role modelling to other team members
- Effective time management
- Motivated to work effectively as part of the multi-disciplinary team
- Willingness to adapt to change as the organisation develops
- Re-infusion of cell therapy.
Desirable criteria
- Counselling skills
- Able to safely and effectively hold the directorate’s bleep
- Good understanding of triage or acute care.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
- Ability to understand specific challenges faced by patients living with cancer.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chinjumol Daniel
- Job title
- Apheresis CNS / Senior sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 256272
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