A Vacancy at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Haemoglobinopathy (red cell haematology) who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Haemoglobinopathies (red cell haematology) who is passionate about providing outstanding care, improving health outcomes, and reducing health inequalities.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work in an expanding field. You will build specialist knowledge, gain valuable experience, and boost your skills while working to support the development of the haemoglobinopathy service and meet the needs of children and young adults.
You will manage and coordinate clinical follow-up programmes working as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will act as a key worker for patients and facilitate the transition between child, young person, and adult services and will take a leading role in setting up nurse-led clinics in this area.
Some experience with red cell disorders and their management is required, but this post will be clinically supported by local medical teams and The Red Cell Network Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre in order to help you feel fully supported in this role.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
To provide an accessible and robust service for all patients with Red Cell Disorders.
To support the ward and day-care staff with acutely unwell patients, liaising with the pain team, haematology, paediatric nursing and medical team to ensure optimum care of the patient.
To manage the clinical caseload, providing highly specialist nursing input and continuity of care to patients with Red Cell Disorders, focusing on self-management, attendance and monitoring of their disease and the treatment monitoring, as well as transition.
To ensure each patient is assessed, and their care planned, implemented, and evaluated in negotiation with the patient, carers, and other healthcare professionals accurately and ensure this is communicated and documented.
To provide expert nursing support and provide advice, education, counselling to support to patients and families, either virtually, via telephone or face to face. Providing practical and emotional support to patients and families in a tailored and timely manner
To meet with patients and their families as required to help resolve their concerns, providing written responses to formal complaints as required by the Divisional Manager
To produce and update patient information and clinical guidelines, for the service following trust guidelines.
To be involved in teaching and training of healthcare professionals and establishment of link nurses and to support the nurse haemoglobinopathy training programme.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
· The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Thursday 10 Apr 2025