We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist - Children & Young People Sickle Cell who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will use your specialist knowledge, experience, and skills to support the development and coordination of the haemoglobinopathy service and meet the needs of children and young people.
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.
You will be expected and have experience with sickle cell disease and its management. This clinical responsibility requires an understanding of the potential medical and psychological needs of children and young people with haemoglobinopathy conditions.
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.
Main duties of the job
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 in order 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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Registered Nurse with the NMC - RSCN/RN Relevant post-registration program Teaching/Assessment program Independent nurse prescriber Good knowledge & experience regarding safeguarding CYP
Desirable
Leadership development programme Management development programme
Experience
Essential
Minimum 3 years' relevant post-registration experience in same specialty Undertaking or willing to undertake master's degree / post-graduation qualifications
Skills
Essential
Demonstrates awareness of the importance of working in a multi-disciplinary team Demonstrates understanding of good practice in Customer Care Practical experience in teaching patients & staff Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice. Skills in critical analysis and application of research to practice
Employer details
Employer name
East and North Herts NHS Trust
Address
Lister Hospital
Coreys Mill Lane
Stevenage
SG1 4AB
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr
You will use your specialist knowledge, experience, and skills to support the development and coordination of the haemoglobinopathy service and meet the needs of children and young people.
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.
You will be expected and have experience with sickle cell disease and its management. This clinical responsibility requires an understanding of the potential medical and psychological needs of children and young people with haemoglobinopathy conditions.
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.
Main duties of the job
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 in order 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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Registered Nurse with the NMC - RSCN/RN Relevant post-registration program Teaching/Assessment program Independent nurse prescriber Good knowledge & experience regarding safeguarding CYP
Desirable
Leadership development programme Management development programme
Experience
Essential
Minimum 3 years' relevant post-registration experience in same specialty Undertaking or willing to undertake master's degree / post-graduation qualifications
Skills
Essential
Demonstrates awareness of the importance of working in a multi-disciplinary team Demonstrates understanding of good practice in Customer Care Practical experience in teaching patients & staff Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice. Skills in critical analysis and application of research to practice
Employer details
Employer name
East and North Herts NHS Trust
Address
Lister Hospital
Coreys Mill Lane
Stevenage
SG1 4AB
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr
