Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is recruiting a Band 8a CNS Team Lead/Coordinator to lead the specialist nursing and transplant coordinator teams in its adult haematology stem cell transplant and cellular therapy service. The post combines operational management and professional leadership with a personal caseload as key worker and patient advocate. The service runs one of London's largest JACIE-accredited transplant programmes and has expanded into CAR‑T and other cellular therapies. Applicants need NMC registration and a level 7 haemato‑oncology qualification.
What the job involves
- Provide CNS team leadership and strategic direction for the specialist nursing team and wider transplant coordinator team
- Oversee the delivery of specialist nursing services for stem cell transplant, cellular therapy recipients and related donors
- Lead the CNS team within the MDT to respond to evolving SCT, cellular therapy and gene‑editing requirements
- Work closely with the SCT Programme Director, medical SCT coordinators, CNS and transplant management teams
- Coordinate transplant treatment pathways across inpatient and ambulatory care settings
- Manage a defined patient caseload as key worker and patient advocate
- Act as a role model and resource for patients, relatives and staff
- Work as a registered nurse at enhanced CNS level
- Help shape future models of care for SCT, CAR‑T and emerging cellular therapies
- Apply holistic, socio‑economic and cultural knowledge of care within the speciality
Qualifications
- NMC registration
- Post‑registration qualification at level 7 in haemato‑oncology
- Degree level education
- Recognised teaching or assessing qualification
- Leadership and management course(s)
Experience
- Advanced decision making to manage a complex caseload
- Teaching and assessing others
Skills & knowledge
- Strategic thinking
- Time management and effective management of a patient caseload
- Working autonomously with high‑level clinical decision making
- Excellent organisational skills and advanced ICT skills including Microsoft Office
Nice to have
- MSc or MA in a related specialty
- Advanced physical assessment and clinical reasoning qualification
- Psychological assessment course
- Non‑medical prescribing qualification
- Experience of teaching and assessing others
- Experience of line managing others
- Advanced IT skills including Excel or data management
- Ability to design and deliver education programmes
What’s offered
- Career development
- Flexible working and wellbeing support
- Staff recognition scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Car lease scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Membership options for onsite leisure facilities
- Consideration of flexible, part‑time or job share working
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
