Clinical Nurse Specialist

North Bristol NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

North Bristol NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Clinical Haematology for a 12-month secondment. The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary team to provide compassionate care for patients with haematological conditions, ensuring high-quality support across various services.

Qualifications

• 5 years or more post registration experience in nursing.
• Experience with cancer services is highly desirable.
• Excellent skills in communication and complex assessment.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist nursing advice and care.
• Plan and implement patient care effectively.
• Educational roles for patients and staff on haematological conditions.

Skills

Communication

Organisation

Patient Advocacy

Assessment Skills

Education

Registered Nurse (RN)

Postgraduate Qualification

Registered Teaching Qualification

Job description

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Job Overview

Clinical Nurse Specialist for Clinical Haematology.

An exciting 12 month secondment opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 or 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) depending on experience to join the Clinical Haematology Team at Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust.

The successful candidate will work as part of our multi-disciplinary team ensuring the delivery of a consistently high quality and compassionate service to a broad patient population including both cancer and non-malignant related diagnosis.

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, experienced and motivated nurse with excellent organisation and communication skills. It would be desirable for the successful candidate to have significant knowledge and experience of haematological conditions.

You would be joining a Haematology team that prides itself on its ability to deliver individualised compassionate care for patients and relatives and also for its own team.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Alessandra Bartlett via email at [e-mail].

Main duties of the job

Clinical Nurse Specialist for Clinical Haematology

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 or 7 ( depending on experience) Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join the Clinical Haematology Team at Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust for a 12 month Secondment.

The successful candidate will work as part of our multi-disciplinary team ensuring the delivery of a consistently high quality and compassionate service to a broad patient population including both cancer and non-malignant related diagnosis.

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, experienced and motivated nurse with excellent organisation and communication skills. It would be desirable for the successful candidate to have significant knowledge and experience of haematological conditions.

You would be joining a Haematology team that prides itself on its ability to deliver individualised compassionate care for patients and relatives and also for its own team.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Alessandra Bartlett via email at [e-mail].

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Generic

• To provide highly specialist nursing advice underpinned by theory and experience to support
  
  

patients and their families/carers

• To plan, develop, improve and promote the service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost
  
  

effective care

• To act as an autonomous practitioner, independently planning, implementing and evaluating
  
  

programmes of care achieved through systematic and holistic assessment, clinical

examination skills, personalised care planning and independent onwards referral and

discharge to primary care team

• To provide patients and staff with highly developed specialist advice to manage complex
  
  

symptoms

• To develop and share expertise within the multidisciplinary team
• To develop and utilize the skills and expertise to act as a resource in the care of patients
  
  

needs, ensuring an optimum level of service to patients and their carers

• To work closely with community and network, other hospital and community staff to ensure
  
  

an effective seamless service

• To deploy high level skills in order to provide effective communication systems of support
  
  

for patients

• To develop and utilize the skills needed to embed patient and public involvement within the
  
  

sphere of specialist nursing practice

• To ensure that all patients and families are aware of all treatment options, including clinical
  
  

trials

• To transcribe radiology requests on ICE following successful completion of the IR(M)E
  
  

training course

• To work as patient advocate, to help negotiate the patient journey and ensure optimum care
  
  

is provided to each patient

• To nurture and maintain links with other health care agencies and and organisations
  
  

providing support and information to patients

• To adhere to and promote in others the importance of infection control guidelines and
  
  

procedures

• To act as a positive role model for nurses in the hospital through the demonstration of
  
  

excellent communication and clinical skills

• To expertly deliver highly complex sensitive condition related information to patients and
  
  

relatives

• To provide specialist support and advice in clinical areas, wards and outpatients, to optimise
  
  

quality improvement opportunities

• To analyse and respond to challenging and complex clinical situations utilising highly
  
  

developed specialist knowledge and analytical and judgemental skills to assess a range of

options to formulate solutions and recommendations

• To act as a change agent, using skills that will motivate and reassure staff through
  
  

negotiation and training, to facilitate the change process

Specific requirements of the post:

• Provide education and support for patients receiving oral and/or parenteral chemotherapy including consent for treatment
• Use of protocols, specialist knowledge and examination skills to assess patients in follow-up and pre-chemotherapy clinics
• Authorisation of blood products following successful completion of National Blood Service training course
• Provide telephone support for haematology cancer patients before, during and after chemotherapy treatment
• Perform bone marrow biopsies following successful completion of programme of training
• Undertake non-medical prescribing following successful completion of programme of training.
  
  

Education

• To lead on and participate in the planning and delivery of formal and informal specialist education programmes for patients, carers and all staff
• To lead on and participate in education forums locally
• To ensure that professional knowledge and practice is regularly updated
• To take personal responsibility for life-long learning and personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal and Knowledge and Skills Framework
  
  

Research and Audit

• To collate and record quantitative and qualitative data that provides evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality, through audit and research
• To regularly lead on and participate in clinical audit and research
• To promote a culture of evidence based practice
• To be involved with health promotion
  
  

Management and Leadership

• To lead on policy and service development within a multidisciplinary team context
• To lead on the development and implementation of protocols for specialist area of work and for the wider healthcare community served by North Bristol Trust
• To be responsible for the gathering, analysis and evaluation of patient and other feedback to inform ongoing improvement in the patient experience in specialist area
• To provide professional leadership for band 6 specialist nurses and be a role model in relation to nursing in specialist area
• To be responsible for developing and coordinating job plans in order to maximise team effectiveness and efficiency
• To plan the provision of day to day organisational tasks for self and others
• To manage a highly complex caseload based on flexible principles, priorities and the care needs of patients
• To lead on responding to complaints and queries, and have a working awareness of the North Bristol's NHS Trust's complaints procedure
  
  

To maintain accurate and concise records that produce statistical data for the purpose of evaluation and development of the service

• To coordinate the collection of information and data required for annual reports and national peer review in collaboration with cancer services
• To keep accurate and up to date patient records
• To be responsible for the effective, efficient and safe use, maintenance and storage of resources and equipment used in the performance of the role
  
  

Person specification

Education and trainnig

Essential criteria

• RN
• Relevant post graduate qualification
• Registered teaching qualification
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Independent prescriber
  
  

Work experience

Essential criteria

• 5 years or more post registration experience
• Relevant post basic experience with cancer services
• Experience of audit / research
  
  

Knoweldge skils and experience

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Excellent assessment skills to cope with highly complex acute and chronic patient conditions
  
  

If you apply for this vacancy and have not received a communication from North Bristol NHS Trust within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

Please note that North Bristol NHS Trust does not reimburse travel expenses relating to interview attendance.

If you feel you meet the requirements of the Disability Act / Two Ticks scheme and require further support/advice, please contact us on tel [phone].

North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.

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