Abdominal Recipient Transplant Coordinator (Quality Lead)

We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated registered nurse to join the Abdominal Transplant Co-ordinator Team as a Living Kidney Donor Co-ordinator.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with past experience working in a relevant specialty, such as renal nursing or transplantation. You will be responsible for supporting potential donors through the assessment process, ensuring a high standard of person-centred care from the initial point of contact through to donation and aftercare.
You will also progress to facilitating transplants from deceased donors as part of an on-call rota.
+ Interview Date Thursday, 17 October 2024
+ 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
+ You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy, You will be expected to implement effective management and organisational skills, co-ordinating and facilitating the living donor programme. This includes organising relevant medical investigations, delivering counselling to potential donors and recipients and managing a patient caseload.
You must demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with patients, their relatives and members of the wider multi-disciplinary team, both within the Trust and regionally.
You must be able to demonstrate a compassionate approach to the care of patients, whilst working within the legal and ethical guidelines surrounding organ donation.
You will adapt to changes in practise and contribute to service improvement and audits within the programme in order to improve the patient experience.
You will be supported in developing skills to safely facilitate abdominal organ transplants as part of an on-call rota., + The primary role of the post holder is to work within the multi-disciplinary abdominal transplant team and provide expert specialist individual care to patients and their carers during their progression through the transplant process.
+ Coordinate and facilitate the live donor programme in line with the British Transplant Society Standards on live donation. There is strong commitment to education and health promotion as well as a supportive role for the transplant recipients and their families and live donors in the short and long term.
+ The on call responsibility includes the organisation of kidney, renal, liver, pancreas and islet cell transplantation.
+ Representation at National Meetings as Lead Specialist for the Trust.
+ Provides specialist education and training.
Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month's pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team., Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.