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Job summary

Main area
Renal Transplant
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
361-7476564
Employer
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lister Hospital
Town
Stevenage
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/10/2025 23:59

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East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust logo

Specialist Support Nurse - Renal Transplant

NHS AfC: Band 6

Here at  East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

 

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Specialist Support Nurse - Renal Transplant who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
 
The successful person will be responsible for the provision of high quality, patient focused care by assessing, developing and implementing specialist nursing care programmes. You will be also responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff.
 
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. 

Main duties of the job

The Specialist Support Nurse will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care as a practitioner with specialist skills and provide advice and clinical expertise to other members of staff.
 
You will also be in a position to provide specialist clinical advice for patients and carers.
 
You will be required to carry a caseload, and take responsibility for the management of allocated  cases.
 
The post holder will always look to improve and maintain standards of care within the specialty.
 
The successful candidate will also help other nurse's by improving their skills, enabling them to provide the highest standard of care for patients within the specialty.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. 

We run the following hospitals: 

  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage 
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City 
  • Hertford County, Hertford 
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood 

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.  We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. 

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.  This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential criteria
  • Registered nurse
  • Relevant experience in renal
  • Continuous professional development
  • Teaching or mentoring qualification
  • Post registration qualification in specialty or willingness to complete
Desirable criteria
  • Degree
  • Research Module

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Relevant experience in renal
  • Demonstrate expert nursing skills
  • Evidence of mentorship/preceptorship roles
  • Accept personal accountability for own practice
  • Experience of formal/informal teaching
Desirable criteria
  • Experience within a renal transplant setting

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
  • Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
  • Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
  • Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload
  • Effective time management
  • Effective interpersonal skills
  • Commitment to multidisciplinary working
Desirable criteria
  • Assertiveness/perceptive counselling skills
  • Documentation, audit and presentation skills
  • Leadership skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of managing outpatient caseload of patients
  • Knowledge of local and national health care initiatives / innovation to improve patient care, experience and safety
  • Understanding of evidence based practice
  • Understanding of Clinical Governance
  • Understanding and knowledge of specialist field
Desirable criteria
  • Computer literate - relevant to renal department

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Claire McDonald
Job title
Renal Receipient and Living donor CNS
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01438 285466
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