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About
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research.
Find out more about the Trust on their web-site at www.ouh.nhs.uk
Watch how OUH goes about delivering compassionate excellence on the ouhnhs YouTube channel
Myeloid Specialist Nurse
Closed for applications on: 5-Jul-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 5-Jul-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Churchill Hospital
- Address
- Old Road
- Town
- Headington
- Postcode
- OX3 7LE
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Haematology
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for an experience nurse to join the Myeloid team within the Haematology department at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust a a Band 6 Specialist Nurse.
The Myeloid Team is a multidisciplinary team based at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. It provides care for our local patients and tertiary level care for the Thames Valley region. The team includes several clinical staff of international repute, and the post holder will liaise with our inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory and research units. We believe in patient-centred care, so our patients receive high class, personalised treatment. Patients looked after by the team include those with acute leukaemia (AML and ALL) together with a range of myeloproliferative disorders including CML, myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythaemia and polycythaemia. The treatment of all of these disorders is going through an era of rapid progress and development, so this gives the post-holder the opportunity to help develop a world-leading clinical service for this important group of patients.
Specific funding is available to support and advance education and personal development. After embedding into the service, courses and further study will be supported on approval with the clinical lead and senior nurse manager.
For more information about the role please contact Monica Jefferson, Deputy Matron for Haematology, on [email protected]
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Specialist Nurses will:
- Be identified as the key worker for an agreed patient caseload.
- Provide advice, education and support to patients, their carers and other health care professionals.
- Practice clinically in agreed care settings according to approved protocols or guidance.
- Contribute to the smooth running of the Myeloma service.
- Work across departmental boundaries.
- Liaise with other hospital and community teams along agreed pathways to support the delivery of patient and family centred care.
- Contribute to the on-going development of the Myeloma and wider Haematology service.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide expert nursing care to patients referred to the myeloid service.
Specifically, this would include:
- Work independently in outpatient clinics with cancer patients throughout their pathways. This may incorporate both independent nurse-led face to face and telephone-based consultations alongside the traditional model of outpatient patient care.
- Liaise closely with other healthcare providers such as DGHs and Community hospitals and GPs to coordinate referrals and ensure effective detailed communication for treatment.
- Provide clinical advice in accordance with current evidence based practice
- Help to co-ordinate clinical care in line with cancer targets. This will involve communicating with the patient and other members of the clinical team in day treatment and clinical wards to deliver treatment pathways.
- Assess the needs of patients, their families, and other carers, in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team, and providing specific advice or support as appropriate utilising local and national guidance and documentation.
- Be a defined point of contact for patients/carers for defined episodes/pathways of care and provide specialist nursing advice and psychosocial support.
- Assess health and psychosocial needs of individual patients, and provide care to meet these needs, through a process of shared decision making.
For full details of the role and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description.
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment , we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.
Nursing and Midwifery: For candidates applying from outside the UK: Please be advised that we work in partnership with Envertiz who will be managing your recruitment therefore by applying you are consenting to us passing your contact details and application to Envertiz so they can manage your recruitment and on-boarding. If you do not consent to this, please do not apply.
Probation Period: This post is subject to a 6 month probationary period. If you currently hold a contract of employment with the Oxford University Hospitals, this will not apply. This statement does not apply to Medical staff or Executive Appointments.
Referencing: When providing employment reference details please provide correct work related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your first referee will need to be your line manager, supervisor or clinical lead from your current or most recent post or place of study. Please note that if you have previously worked for the Trust we will require a reference from your last Manager, this information is essential if your offer of employment is to be confirmed.
Next Steps: Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short-listing process, usually within 2 weeks. (Please note that shortlisting times vary when applying for a Medical position within the Trust). The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system; therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.
No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.
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.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse part 1 or 8 or 12 or 15 of register (depending on area of practice)
- Teaching / Assessment/ Mentoring qualification
Desirable criteria
- Completed or completing postgraduate level (HEI level 7) study or willing undertake
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates up to date knowledge in the speciality
- Knowledge of the key professional issues and NMC guidelines relating to professional practice
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Experience of formal/informal teaching of patients and staff acting as a mentor
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Monica Jefferson
- Job title
- Deputy Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 223847
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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