Nurse / Clinical Training Specialist

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies.

The Clinical Training Specialist (CTS) role is a “Patient Training and Education expert” in Home Therapies for Vulnerable Adults. The CTS partners with referring units to teach patients and staff best practice in Peritoneal Dialysis (PD). The CTS works to fulfil the demand for patient training to ensure that patients are expertly and appropriately trained on Vantive's therapies to optimise outcomes and to minimise avoidable technique failures.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Teach and empower patients in self-management of PD by providing high quality evidence-based patient training to patients following referral from NHS hospitals at primarily at EC, but also in the patient’s own home or hospital as required.
• Educate, advise and train healthcare professionals on best practice patient training methods for PD, adopting a train the trainer approach where needed.
• Work closely with Renal Therapy Specialist (RTS) to assist with education plans for specific identified hospitals in line with agreed growth plans.
• Complete high quality training records, document training provided and feedback to hospital staff.
• Provide innovative refresher and follow-up training support for patients.
• Ensure product knowledge remains current and evidence based.
• Attend and contribute to Regional Business Meetings to ensure activities are aligned and market knowledge is transferred as appropriate.
• Support internal training initiatives as subject matter experts to drive clinical excellence amongst the Vantive commercial teams.
• Regular auditing to monitor the quality of our education service any concerns and complaints to ensure continuous improvement.
• Participate in governance processes identifying learning opportunities.

Qualifications/ Education and/or Experience:

• Adult Nursing degree or equivalent required.
• Currently listed on NMC register.
• Evidence of post registration study.
• Computer literacy skills – Office 365.
• Demonstrate strong teaching and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Able to work effectively both independently and within a team environment.
• Flexible approach to problem solving.
• Minimum 3 years of clinical nursing experience (Advantage).
• An interest or experience of teaching and educational processes; in particular, teaching patients (Advantage).
• A knowledge of dialysis systems and processes (Advantage).

What are some of our benefits of working at Vantive?

• Competitive total compensation package
• Professional development opportunities
• High importance placed on work life balance
• Commitment to growing and developing an inclusive and diverse workforce.