Chronic Kidney Disease Clinical Nurse SpecialistNHS
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and motivated Band 6 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Specialist Nurse to join our friendly, supportive and forward-thinking renal team.
We are looking for an experienced renal nurse with excellent communication skills, a compassionate approach and a genuine interest in long-term condition management, patient education and service development. You will work within a multidisciplinary team supporting patients with advanced kidney disease, helping them understand their condition, manage symptoms and make informed decisions about their treatment and future care.
You will manage your own caseload and develop specialist expertise in kidney replacement therapy education, anaemia management, hepatitis B vaccination clinics and nurse-led patient support. This is a role that requires autonomy, clinical judgement and the ability to build meaningful therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
Our small specialist team is collaborative, welcoming and committed to delivering outstanding patient-centred kidney care. We support each other, value new ideas and are expanding our conservative kidney management service, giving you the opportunity to contribute to service development and innovation.
Main duties of the job
We offer excellent opportunities for postgraduate education, quality improvement, teaching and advanced practice development, including non-medical prescribing. Guided by our PRIDE values, we are committed to helping our team grow and thrive.
If you are looking for a rewarding specialist nursing role where you can develop advanced clinical skills and make a real difference, we would love to hear from you.
As a Band 6 CKD Specialist Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering and developing our specialist CKD service.
You will manage a caseload of patients, providing holistic assessment, care planning and ongoing monitoring. The role requires a high degree of autonomy, using clinical judgement to assess risk, prioritise care and make timely decisions within agreed protocols.
You will run nurse-led clinics, provide kidney replacement therapy education, support anaemia management and participate in hepatitis B vaccination clinics. You will review pathology results, coordinate investigations, monitor treatment effectiveness and act as a key point of contact for patients and their families.
Job description
Excellent communication skills are essential. You will support patients through complex and often emotive discussions about disease progression, treatment options, conservative kidney management and future care planning, adapting your approach to individual needs.
An exciting aspect of this role is the opportunity to help expand our service and develop new pathways for conservative management and enhanced supportive kidney care. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about service development, embraces change and wants to help shape the future of our CKD service through innovation and quality improvement.
Please view the attached job description for full details of the role, and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.
About us
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics