Job summary
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 post holder will:
-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 create and 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.Will work alongside the Matron for Haemoglobinopathies 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.
-Recognise the importance of utilisation of resources is paramount and ensure maximal use of those available to enable the delivery of the highest standards of care.
-Be expected to focus on specialist education and training to all members of the multidisciplinary team within the service. Creating and facilitating training programmes.
-The post holder will be a key member of the team to ensure the implementation of the specialist service specification for Haemoglobinopathy.
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.
- Create and facilitate training and support with programmes of education.
- Lead with Haemoglobinopathy training across NGH and KGH.
- 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 appropriate forums.
Service Delivery & Development
- Manage a caseload of patients, as appropriate within the speciality, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
- Delegate a caseload of patients to team.
- 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
- Responsible 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 and lead for service.
- 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
- Acting on audits and research findings to inform and change practice as appropriate.
- 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.
- Raise the profile of patient and public involvement by embedding this within own sphere of practice.
- 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.
Research
To be responsible for nursing practice development within the service.
Actively participate in 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.
Service specific
Nurse Led clinics.
Liaison point of contact for patients.
Co-ordinate hydroxycarbamide treatment.
Education in Emergency Department and Assessment unit, as well as Haematology areas.
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.
The post holder will manage a small team and report to Matron.
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.
- Create and facilitate training and support with programmes of education.
- Lead with Haemoglobinopathy training across NGH and KGH.
- 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 appropriate forums.
Service Delivery & Development
- Manage a caseload of patients, as appropriate within the speciality, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
- Delegate a caseload of patients to team.
- 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
- Responsible 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 and lead for service.
- 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
- Acting on audits and research findings to inform and change practice as appropriate.
- 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.
- Raise the profile of patient and public involvement by embedding this within own sphere of practice.
- 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.
Research
To be responsible for nursing practice development within the service.
Actively participate in 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.
Service specific
Nurse Led clinics.
Liaison point of contact for patients.
Co-ordinate hydroxycarbamide treatment.
Education in Emergency Department and Assessment unit, as well as Haematology areas.
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.
The post holder will manage a small team and report to Matron.
Person Specification
Educations, Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
- Holds an NMC pin
Desirable
- Evidence of post-registration education and development to Masters level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
- Clinical Leadership Programme
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Relevant clinical experience at band 6 or above
- Specialist knowledge and experience within the area of speciality
- Experience in managing a team
- Evidence of autonomous practice
Skills
Essential
- Assertive and confident
- Personal and professional maturity
- Recognition of own limitations Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Evidence of change management.
- Leadership & motivation skills
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Ability to supervise
- Supervise, educate and develop others
- Ability to prioritise and organise own working day
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
Person Specification
Educations, Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
- Holds an NMC pin
Desirable
- Evidence of post-registration education and development to Masters level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
- Clinical Leadership Programme
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Relevant clinical experience at band 6 or above
- Specialist knowledge and experience within the area of speciality
- Experience in managing a team
- Evidence of autonomous practice
Skills
Essential
- Assertive and confident
- Personal and professional maturity
- Recognition of own limitations Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Evidence of change management.
- Leadership & motivation skills
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Ability to supervise
- Supervise, educate and develop others
- Ability to prioritise and organise own working day
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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
