Renal Post Transplant Clinic Sister

• Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times. • Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/ carers and the multi-professional team. • A skilled practitioner and clinical leader providing support to the management team, participating in service/policy development. • Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients and management of a team, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented and evaluated/audited. • Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities including HR, resource, and bleep holder responsibilities as appropriate. • Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring, equipment management and frequent administration of invasive tests/procedures. • Develop and educate staff, participating in supervision, mentorship and appraisal as required. • Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available. • Manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring varying levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/ clinical need. • Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g imparting bad news or following an unexpected event • Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards. • Maintain a clean, safe environment ensuring adherence to trust standards of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control at all times. For further details of the role please see the attached job description. Job description Job responsibilities • Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times. • Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/ carers and the multi-professional team. • A skilled practitioner and clinical leader providing support to the management team, participating in service/policy development. • Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients and management of a team, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented and evaluated/audited. • Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities including HR, resource, and bleep holder responsibilities as appropriate. • Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring, equipment management and frequent administration of invasive tests/procedures. • Develop and educate staff, participating in supervision, mentorship and appraisal as required. • Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available. • Manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring varying levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/ clinical need. • Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g imparting bad news or following an unexpected event • Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards. • Maintain a clean, safe environment ensuring adherence to trust standards of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control at all times. For further details of the role please see the attached job description.