Job summary
- Main area
- Division B-Apheresis
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Full Time
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered.)
- Job ref
- 180-B-248053
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital - Division B
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse - Apheresis, Ward E10
Band 5
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small friendly dynamic team carry out Apheresis procedures, such as, Peripheral stem cell harvests, Plasma exchanges, Red Cell exchanges and Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP).
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a motivated enthusiastic nurse who is looking for a challenge and are committed to develop & improve patient care.
You must be able to demonstrate excellent organisational and communication skills, and an understanding of the needs of cancer patients and their families.
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 practice 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
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 5th January 2025.
Interviews are due to be held on 14th January 2025.
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
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.
A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers and Band 5 Orthoptists taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
For Candidates applying from outside the UK
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
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
· applied for a Graduate visa
· or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
· or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current registration with NMC on part one or two of the register.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and assessing qualification.
- Other post-basic, health-related courses evidence of continuing professional development and its application.
- Prior Apheresis competencies.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven clinical practice.
- Experience of utilising reflective practice.
Desirable criteria
- Dialysis or hemofiltration experience.
- Haematology experience.
- Experience of mentoring junior staff
- Experience of teaching junior staff.
- Experience of shift: shift ward management in absence of senior colleagues.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- NMC Code of Conduct and guidelines of professional practice.
- Good theoretical and practical knowledge of nursing within the clinical area.
- Health and Safety awareness.
- Quality issues and Clinical Governance.
- Awareness of Trust and Ward/Department Policies.
- Awareness of need to demonstrate a professional appearance and behaviour.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of risk management procedure
- An understanding of the professional nursing agenda.
- Awareness of broader issues within the Trust and NHS.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven verbal and written communication skills with all members of the healthcare team, colleagues, patients and relatives.
- Practical application of Trust documentation standards.
- Ability to take initiative when required and liaise with the appropriate manager/bleep holder.
- Maintenance of confidentiality.
- Identify problems and recommend solutions.
- Time management.
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload.
- Awareness and respect for colleagues’, patients’, relatives’ cultural and emotional needs.
- Able to remain calm and work effectively in pressured situations.
- Willingness to adapt to change as the organisation develops.
- Self-motivated.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to achieve competency in Trust computer systems.
- Ability to induct and orientate new staff to the clinical area and to identify the key learning needs of less experienced staff
- Cannulation and venepuncture.
- Able to demonstrate practical application of health and safety in relation to acuity and patient/nurse ratio.
- Effective management of equipment and Resources.
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.
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 256 272
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