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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Contact
- Address
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Human Resources Department
- Northumbria House
- 7/8 Silver Fox Way, Cobalt Business Park
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- NE27 0QJ
- Contact Number
- 0191 2031415 Option 2
Nurse Clinical Lead - Haematology
Accepting applications until: 29-Apr-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 29-Apr-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Rake Lane
- Tref
- North Sheilds
- Cod post
- NE29 8NH
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Cyflog
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Haematology
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Due to new investment, we are delighted to be able to recruit an experienced Clinical Lead Nurse to support and further develop our haematology service. This is an exciting opportunity for a senior nurse who is passionate about improving care for patients with blood disorders and committed to driving high standards across the speciality.
The Trust provides haematology services across its full footprint, and the post holder will need to work flexibly to meet the needs of patients and teams.
We are seeking a highly skilled nurse with:
• Significant experience within the haematology speciality
• A proven track record in service development, quality improvement, and leading change
• Demonstrable leadership capability, with experience managing or guiding clinical teams
The successful candidate will provide visible, professional, clinical, and operational leadership to a small but motivated team of Clinical Nurse Specialists. Working closely with the existing team, they will ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and high‑quality nursing care for haematology patients.
This role is ideal for a dynamic, forward‑thinking nurse leader who is committed to shaping the future of haematology nursing and delivering outstanding care for this patient group.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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· Provide enhanced clinical practice in Haematology specialty
· Work 50% of time clinically in specialty and 50% in effective nurse leadership/service development.
· Work at an enhanced level with a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making within the specialty which demonstrates core capabilities and specific clinical competences.
· Take responsibility for various components of the Clinical Governance agenda including achieving standards relevant to the areas.
· Liaise with clinical colleagues in the continued development and re-organisation of services emphasising a patient focused approach utilising pathways of care
· Professionally responsible for the delivery of a high-quality safe service for patients and carers.
· Advise and actively contribute to the achievement of national and local performance targets within the area.
· Responsible for maintaining all nursing and clinical care standards in line with relevant professional, Trust and NICE guidelines.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
• Act as a role model and expert advisor to nursing teams and multidisciplinary colleagues
• Work collaboratively across the Trust to promote safe, evidence‑based practice and excellent patient experience
• Champion initiatives that reduce health inequalities and improve access to care
• Support the best use of resources while maintaining high clinical standards
• Drive continuous improvement through innovation, audit, and quality initiatives
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- 1st Level live NMC (RG)
- Practice assessor and practice supervisor
- Degree in Nursing or related subject or equivalent level of knowledge through in-depth experience
- Leadership qualification/course/extensive and in depth experience
- Enhanced Clinical skills qualification or willingness to undertake
- Prescribing qualification
- Blood component prescribing or willingness to undertake
- Advanced communication skills training or willingness to undertake
Meini prawf dymunol
- Computer literacy
- Presentation skills
- Management course
Experience and Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Previous proven experience in haematology specialty at Band 7
- Clinical Experience in relevant specialty
- Evidence of change management experience in clinical specialty
- Evidence of proven practice development
- Evidence, knowledge and demonstration of maintaining effective clinical governance strategy
- Experience of coordinating a team
- Experience of human resource management
- Evidence of innovation in practice through understanding of expanded roles/professional practice issues
Other Requirements
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Active Car driving license – it is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Lisa Maguire
- Teitl y swydd
- Assistant OSM
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07740106236
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Amanda Walshe, ~ Lead Cancer Nurse, [email protected]. 0777433308
Mari Kilner - Haematology Clinical lead , [email protected]
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