We are excited to advertise this post of Haemoglobinopathies Lead Nurse, this is a new post being funded as part of a service development to offer closer to home support to children and young people who have Haemoglobinopathy disorders and their families/carers.

The service hosted by Northampton General hospital will provide a service across United hospitals Northamptonshire. The successful person will lead the nursing team, ensuring collaborative working pathways from children's to adult services. You will ensure close working with the East Midlands & National Haemoglobinopathy networks to ensure care is provided in line with National guidance.

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

The Haemoglobinopathies Lead nurse will work with the multi professional team to provide child/young person focused Haemoglobinopathy services, and to initiate different forms of treatment for child/young people and their families in a variety of settings.

You will Demonstrate specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in the specialist area, ensuring the delivery of appropriate evidence-based care. being responsible for ensuring that all staff within the organisations receive appropriate training to support health crisis's.

You will manage the paediatric haemoglobinopathy nursing team, ensuring they have the appropriate knowledge and skills to support children & young people with haemoglobinopathy disorders.

You will work across all disciplines in ensuring the quality of care provided to these children & young people is in accordance with local & national protocols , guidelines and policies

il You will be a key member of the team working alongside the Child Health Matron to ensure the service is delivered in line with the service specification and within the remit of the allocated budget, which will vary depending on the numbers of patients treated.

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.

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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.

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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

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

Establish and maintain good positive working relationships with key working relations.

Create and facilitate training programmes and support with programmes of education across all disciplines

Lead with Childrens and young peoples Haemoglobinopathy training across NGH and KGH.

Manage a caseload of patients, as appropriate within the speciality, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.

Lead the nursing team, taking responsibility for managing sickness/absence, recruitment and performance management when required

Delegate a caseload of patients to the nursing team, support and clinically supervise and line manage the nursing team to ensure standards of practice are maintained 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 patient problems, some of these with the potential to be highly complex by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.

Promote the philosophy of family centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the child/young person and their family at all times.

Promote patient and public involvement and enhancing their experience by supporting their manager with implementing new initiatives relating to patient centred care.

Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the service.

Person Specification

Educations, Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of education, training or experience Holds an NMC pin

knowledge & experience

Essential

• Relevant clinical experience at band 6 or above Specialist knowledge and experience within the area of speciality

knowledge & experience

Essential

• Experience in managing a team Evidence of autonomous practice

Employer details

Employer name

Northampton General Hospital

Address

Northampton general hospital NHS Trust

Cliftonville

Northampton

NN1 5BD

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