You may be required to work in other designated locations of the Trust as well as your primary base. The Northampton Specialist haemoglobinopathy team currently incorporates Northampton and Kettering, flexibility is required across the two main hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist nursing support ensuring the quality of care provision to adults who have Haemoglobinopathy disorders using unit protocols and trust policies and guidelines.

To work with the multi professional team to provide patient focused Haemoglobinopathy services, and to initiate different forms of treatment for adults and their families in a variety of settings.

To work with the multi professional team in Haemoglobinopathy services.

To provide specialist education, training and information to patients and families.

To work with the multi professional team to monitor patient condition.

To be responsible for nursing practice development.

The post holder will:

Maintain efficient and effective communication with the multidisciplinary team, both within NGH / KGH, the network and national service.

Develop and promote working partnerships between the Trust and academic staff at local Universities involved in the provision of nursing and multi professional programmes of education.

Be a visible, accessible, and assertive clinical expert to whom staff and users can turn to for assistance, expert advice, and support.

You may be required to work in other designated locations of the Trust as well as your primary base. The Northampton Specialist haemoglobinopathy team currently incorporates Northampton and Kettering, flexibility is required across the two main hospital site

About us

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Integrity

Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds.This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY RESULT AREAS

Take responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers within the speciality.

• Establish and maintain good positive working relationships with key working relations.
• Facilitate training and support with programmes of education.
• Actively participate in local, national, and international networking to maintain and develop expert level of knowledge in the speciality.
• Ensure that the importance and implications of education, research, and ideas are raised in appropriate forums in the absence of manager.
• Act up in the absence of the Haemaglobanopathy specialist nurse manager, assuming day to day line management of the team.
• Work across NGH and KGH, and potentially other settings including community services, inpatient, and outpatient services

Service Delivery & Development

• Manage a delegated caseload of patients, as appropriate within the speciality, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
• Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the service.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in the specialist area, ensuring the delivery of appropriate evidence-based care.
• Support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving complex patient problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.
• Promote the philosophy of patient centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the patient and their family at all times.

Governance

• Support manager for ensuring appropriate systems are in place to evidence ongoing compliance with local and national policies as required for CQC standards.
• Actively participate in audit and research and benchmarking activities to ensure effective safe and evidence based practice.
• Promote and encourage nursing practice research in all relevant clinical areas.
• Promote the speciality by publishing and presenting innovations and research findings locally and nationally.
• Actively promote the specialist service throughout the Trust by establishing robust networks and links with Clinical Governance and Audit teams
• Support manager with acting on audits and research findings to inform and change practice as appropriate.
• Support manager as a clinical expert provide advice and support to assist with the management of complaints relating to the speciality and implement action plans or change of the service.

Patient/Customer Service

• Promote the philosophy of patient centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the patient and their family at all times.
• Promote patient and public involvement and enhancing their experience by supporting and supporting manager with implementing new initiatives relating to patient centred care.
• Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the service within own scope.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in the specialist area, ensuring the delivery of appropriate evidence based care.
• A visible, accessible, and assertive clinical expert to which staff and users can turn to for assistance, expert advice and support

GENERAL

This job description indicates the main functions and responsibilities of the post. It is not intended to be a complete list. You may be required to undertake other duties from time to time as we may reasonably require.

You will be required to maintain compliance with all statutory and mandatory training requirements.

Support the Haemaglobanopathy specialist nurse manager, in managing the allocated resources to ensure cost effectiveness usage of essential supplies.

Must be computer literate.

Person Specification

Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

• Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's Values and Behaviours
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs.
• All staff are expected to engage in compassionate and inclusively

Skills

Essential

• Assertive and confident
• Recognition of own limitations Demonstrates enthusiasm
• Effective communicator
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Ability to supervise
• Supervise, educate and develop others
• Ability to prioritise and organise own working day
• Experience in setting up and monitoring PCA pumps
• Cannulation, venepuncture, and Venesection clinical skills

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Relevant clinical experience at band 5 or above
• Specialist knowledge and experience within the area of speciality
• Evidence of autonomous practice

Educations, Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Holds an NMC pin
• Evidence of post-registration education and development to Postgraduate level or equivalent level of education, training or experience

Desirable

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
• Clinical Leadership Programme

Employer details

Employer name

Northampton General Hospital

Address

Northampton General Hospital

Northampton General Hospital

Northampton

NN1 5BD

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