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REACH & Living Donor Transplant Co-ordinator
Renal Unit, University Hospital Monklands
Agenda for Change - Band 6
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to work across two key areas within the Renal service at University Hospital Monklands (UHM), where you will work within a dynamic and supportive multi-disciplinary team.
The Renal service at UHM provides specialist care for patients across NHS Lanarkshire, treating patients with acute kidney injury and established renal failure. It provides renal replacement therapy for adults with end stage renal failure; cares for patients pending dialysis; and provides care and support following renal transplant.
The REACH Transplant (Renal Education and Choices @ Home) programme is a Scottish Government initiative aimed at improving equity of access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) in Scotland, using an evidence-based approach of individualised, home education sessions to provide tailored information about LDKT to suitable chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients and their support networks.
The postholder will be based within the Renal Unit at UHM, but will have professional links to the national REACH Transplant Programme Lead, and will be required to regular audit outcomes and reports to the Programme Lead for the Scottish Government.
In addition, the postholder will also act as the Living Donor Transplant Co-ordinator. The Renal Unit within UHM is a referring centre for transplant recipients and living kidney donors within the Lanarkshire area. The postholder will be responsible for the organisation and co-ordination of all aspects of the clinical and sociological assessment for living kidney donors within the Lanarkshire area to the point of their referral to the Transplant unit at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
Candidates will be a Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration, educated to SCQF Level 10 post graduate qualification, for example in clinical decision making or specialty Renal Transplant module. Candidates will also have experience of working in a similar field with knowledge of Renal/Transplantation, as well as having experience of planning and delivery of education, and audit/quality improvement.
Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Alan Sommerville, Senior Charge Nurse on or Alan.Sommerville@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For queries regarding the application form or recruitment process only , please contact recruitment.lanarkshire@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk stating the job title and reference number in the subject. Please note: all job related queries must be directed to the informal contact noted above.
‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’