Job summary
Are you ready to make a difference at a world-leading centre for heart and lung transplantation? If so, we would love to hear from you.
Royal Papworth Hospital is the largest adult cardiothoracic transplant centre in the UK and a global pioneer in DCD heart transplantation. Our committed teams perform approximately 90 heart, lung, and heart-lung transplants each year. Since our first successful heart transplant in 1979, nearly 3,000 transplants have been carried out. With world-leading survival rates, an increasing number of our patients are now celebrating 30+ years post-transplant.
We care for around 1,000 transplant recipients and facilitate organ retrieval for other UK centres.
We are committed to supporting your professional growth, by ensuring you receive a development programme that includes; exposure to cutting-edge organ retrieval techniques and novel technologies, assessing patients for transplant along with comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care and opportunities for academic investment and continuous learning.
If you are seeking a rewarding, challenging role that combines a structured developmental package with a friendly, supportive working environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Main duties of the job
Under the guidance of our experienced senior nurses, you will become an integral member of a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing long-term care within the Transplant Directorate.
Key responsibilities will include;
-Providing essential support to patients and their carers during inpatient and outpatient assessment, as well as while they await lung and/or heart transplants and mechanical circulatory support devices. You will also manage their care whilst in the community to ensure continuity of support.
-Enhance your expertise by educating patients, carers and staff on mediation management and long-term post-transplant care. You will coordinate outpatient services and manage a telephone helpline, contributing directly to improved patient outcomes.
-Coordinate and contribute on ward rounds for all transplant inpatients as part of a 7-day rota. Gain valuable experience in donor and recipient coordination through exposure to a 24/7 on-call rota.
If you are passionate about patient care and looking to advance your career in a dynamic healthcare environment, we invite you to apply and join our dedicated team.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma in Nursing
- Current and relevant registration on the NMC Register
Desirable
- Degree in Nursing or equivalent
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Cardiac module
- Respiratory module
Experience
Essential
- Experience at Band 5 or equivalent
- Experience in caring for patients in a critical care setting or equivalent area of acute care
- Awareness of transplant
- Supportive and approachable
- Good verbal communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team
- Port-a-cath access or willingness to undertake training
- Long-line insertion or willingness to undertake training
- Effectively prioritises and co-ordinates own work
- Works as a team player and demonstrates commitment to team objectives
- Treat hospital information confidentially
- Ability to develop staff
- Ability to undertake manual handling tasks
- Ability to deal with complex situations
Desirable
- Experience of working with Transplant patients
- Venepuncture/cannulation skills
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Flexible approach to working hours and practices and willing to work unsocial hours including weekends
Desirable
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Flexible approach to working hours and practices and willing to work unsocial hours including weekends
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma in Nursing
- Current and relevant registration on the NMC Register
Desirable
- Degree in Nursing or equivalent
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Cardiac module
- Respiratory module
Experience
Essential
- Experience at Band 5 or equivalent
- Experience in caring for patients in a critical care setting or equivalent area of acute care
- Awareness of transplant
- Supportive and approachable
- Good verbal communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team
- Port-a-cath access or willingness to undertake training
- Long-line insertion or willingness to undertake training
- Effectively prioritises and co-ordinates own work
- Works as a team player and demonstrates commitment to team objectives
- Treat hospital information confidentially
- Ability to develop staff
- Ability to undertake manual handling tasks
- Ability to deal with complex situations
Desirable
- Experience of working with Transplant patients
- Venepuncture/cannulation skills
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Flexible approach to working hours and practices and willing to work unsocial hours including weekends
Desirable
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Flexible approach to working hours and practices and willing to work unsocial hours including weekends
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
