Cns Team Lead/Coordinator For Stem Cell Transplant & Cellular Therapy

Hammersmith Hospital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Band 8a CNS Team Lead/Coordinator to provide strategic leadership for the Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy service. The role focuses on operational management, governance, and developing new care models for SCT, CAR-T, and emerging cellular therapies.

The post involves leading the CNS team within a MDT, coordinating pathways across inpatient and ambulatory settings, and ensuring high-quality patient-centred care and staff development.

Qualifications

• NMC registration and post-registration qualification in haemato-oncology.
• Degree-level education and leadership/teaching qualifications.
• Experience in advanced decision making to manage a complex caseload.
• Experience leading and managing teams.
• Strategic thinking and autonomous working.

Responsibilities

• Lead the CNS team with strategic leadership in SCT/ cellular therapies.
• Coordinate transplant pathways across inpatient and ambulatory care.
• Oversee delivery of specialist nursing service for SCT and donors.
• Act as a clinical nurse specialist with required registration and education.
• Work within MDT and manage patient caseload and advocacy.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Time management

Autonomy

Decision making

ICT skills

Microsoft Office

Education

NMC registration

Post registration qualification (Haemato-oncology)

Degree level education

Teaching/assessing qualification

Leadership and management courses

Tools

Excel

Data management

Job description

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.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

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.

Person specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

• MSc or MA in related specialty
• Advanced physical assessment and clinical reasoning qualification
• Psychological assessment course
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience
• Experience of advanced decision making to manage a complex caseload
• Experience of teaching and assessing others

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching and assessing others
• Experience of line managing others

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

• Advanced IT skills use or Excel/Data management
• Ability to design and deliver education programmes.
• Ability to lead and influence change

Right to work

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Vacancy Closing Date

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

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