Clinical Nurse Specialist - Haemato-oncology

As a Haematology-Oncology Nurse Specialist, you will engage in a variety of critical tasks focused on patient care and clinical support.

The post holder will be working with patients who have haematological cancers. The successful candidate will be supported to develop competence and skill in undertaking bone marrow biopsies, blood monitoring, contributing to multi-disciplinary team meetings, participating in outpatient clinics and triaging and responding to helpline calls.

Within your role, you will support in providing expert advice related to specific conditions or treatment pathways whilst focusing on improving patient care and service development. You'll assess patients holistically, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care.

You will provide specialist advice to patient families and carers and the wider multidisciplinary team and carry out specialist nursing procedures in relation to haematology patients.

You will also act in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct. Provide a specialist nursing service for patients with haematological conditions who require support and treatment through continuum of care.

The successful candidate will have the ability to manage caseload of patients, delivering a high quality service which is linked to a high standard of patient care.

At East and North Hertfordshire 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 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.

Qualifications / Training

Desirable: - Advanced communication course; - Chemotherapy course; - Mentorship / practice assessor course; - Certificate in non-medical prescribing

Previous Experience

Desirable: - Experience of supervising / teaching other staff; - Experience of service improvement; - Experience of leadership / managing a team

Skills