Sp Nurse for Organ Retrieval/ Ventricular Assist Devices Coordinator
Accepting applications until: 05-Nov-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 05-Nov-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Manchester University Hospitals
- Cyfeiriad
- Southmoor Road
- Tref
- Manchester
- Cod post
- M23 9LT
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Part time - 30 hours per week (1 in 5 on call commitments including weekends)
Salary
- Cyflog
- £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum, (Pro Rata)
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Heart and Lung Transplantation
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Applications are invited to join the Specialist Nurse for Organ Retrieval and Ventricular assist devices (VAD) Coordinator team at Wythenshawe Hospital.
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As part of the Organ retrieval service team, the post holder will help facilitate assessment, procurement, preservation and safe transfer of heart and lungs for transplantation.
As a Ventricular Assist Devices Coordinator, the post holder will facilitate the care and education of patients supported with a Ventricular Assist Device and their families from initial contact, work-up for implant, peri-operative period and long-term follow-up, maintaining excellent care across the VAD/Transplant continuum. VAD Coordinators also participate in patient and caregiver education, providing educational/outreach support regarding VAD to health care providers, patient groups, community organizations, and others in the hospital's service area.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Registered Nurse and NMC registration
- Teaching/ assessor certificate or equivalent
- Post registration training
Meini prawf dymunol
- Degree
- Relevant postgraduate course
- Non Medical prescribing
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- minimum 3 years’ experience at band 5 in ITU/ Cardiothoracic/ Cardiology
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience working with patients following Heart and Lung Transplant and short and long term mechanical circulatory support devices
- Involvement with audit and research
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to work unsupervised. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate within a MDT
- Good time management skills
Meini prawf dymunol
- Presentation skills, Competent I.T. skills
- Good analytical and problem solving skills – clinical reasoning
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Understanding of care of patients with cardiopulmonary diseases
- Understanding of heart and lung Transplantation
- Clinical Governance
Meini prawf dymunol
- Mechanical circulatory support
- Awareness of national policies and developments in transplantation
Personal attributes
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Flexible to meet service delivery needs, including participation with extending the working week.
- Calm under pressure
- Able to work long working hours
Meini prawf dymunol
- Driving licence
- Working within a small team
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Shishir Kore
- Teitl y swydd
- Lead VAD Coordinator
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0161 291 2071
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
The Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust at Wythenshawe Hospital provides district general hospital services for its local communities and many specialist tertiary services for Greater Manchester and the whole of the North West. Our specialist tertiary services include cardiology and cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, heart and lung transplantation, complex respiratory services, vascular services, burns care and plastic surgery, cancer services and breast care. The Transplant Unit at Manchester University Hospitals (south site) is one of five designated Heart Lung centers in England, with its own dedicated transplant facility. The Unit has close links with the North West Lung Centre and the Cardiology Department, and is part of the cardiothoracic surgical service at Wythenshawe Hospital. Each year the unit performs approximately 50 to 60 transplants encompassing the full range of adult cardiothoracic transplantation including hearts, heart/lungs, single lungs and sequential double lung transplants. The unit is known nationally for its excellent survival statistics for both heart transplantation and VAD implants.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Informal visits can be arranged via the Transplant and VAD secretaries on 0161 291 2200/ 4811 or further details can be obtained by contacting
[email protected] (Lead VAD Coordinator)
[email protected] (Matron)
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