Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Haematology
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-SCCS-2222
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £47,951 - £56,863 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Apheresis Charge Nurse - Clinical Haematology
Band 6
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
In response to increasing demand being placed on specialist in-house apheresis services the team are being remodeled to meet the demands of the expanding service. As a result of this there is now a newly created permanent Band 6 position that has become available.
The Clinical Haematology serviceruns one of the largest blood and marrow transplant programmes (allogeneic and autologous) in Europe, successfully achieving and maintaining JACIE accreditation status, while operating as specialist tertiary centre. There are a total of 54-58 haematology beds across three wards. There is also dedicated out-patient and day care facilities that incorporates ambulatory care and the apheresis service. We take pride in the fact that we have been able to maintain an in-house specialist apheresis service supported by on-site dedicated cellular therapy laboratory facilities.
Therapeutic apheresis is a highly specialist technology that provides a comprehensive range of treatment procedures that can involve the separation, removal and replacement of blood components and constituents. The expanded clinical application of this treatment modality in recent years has enabled patients with a wide variety of diseases to be to be treated; leukodepletion for blood cancers, plasma exchange for haematology and neurology patients, as well as, collection of cellular products/harvesting of donors to support the haematopoietic stem cell transplant programme.
Main duties of the job
- To develop and maintain essential skills and experience that are essential to providing safe and effective care.
- To ensure effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of identified care needs.
- To deliver compassionate person-centred care, treating patients, their relatives/carers with dignity and respect.
- To promote and maintain effective communication with patients, relatives/carers and other staff.
- To act as a professional role model, demonstrating well developed leadership and communication skills.
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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience as apheresis nurse Haematology/Cancer nursing background
- Previous experience with leading and developing teams (budget management, quality assurance, change management, service development and undertaking audits)
Desirable criteria
- Ongoing commitment to training
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC : First level registration
- Haemato-oncology experience (to include HSCT)
- Chemotherapy certification
- Haemato-oncology experience (to include HSCT)
- Recognised post-registration training relevant to specialty – Apheresis certification
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
- Preceptorship/Supervisory experience
Desirable criteria
- Management certificate or equivalent experience
- Masters Level study or willingness to undertake
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit
- • Expert in therapeutic application of apheresis procedures and as operator
- • Expert in IV administration and venous access care
- • Ability to lead/engage a large and diverse team/Team building Organisation and management skills.
- • Change management skills
- • IT Skills (Including proficiency with Microsoft Office Packages and accurate, fast typing skills)
- • Capable of working strategically (business planning, service improvements, strategies for infection control)
- • Time management/Ability to meet deadlines/prioritisation
- • Ability to undertake surveys or audits, as necessary e.g. audit of clinical incidents
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to learn and develop new skills appropriate to role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Sinju Thomas
- Job title
- Lead Apheresis M Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02083834735
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