Haematology Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatrics

• Provide specialist assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for children and young people with haemoglobinopathies and their families
• Act as key point of contact, delivering expert advice, support and education to patients, families and healthcare professionals
• Manage a specialist caseload autonomously, referrals, undertaking advanced clinical assessment and escalating concerns appropriately
• Support delivery of annual reviews, investigations, treatment monitoring and multidisciplinary care planning
• Participate in MDT meetings, clinics and regional haemoglobinopathy networks
• Lead neonatal haemoglobinopathy screening follow-up service, providing counselling and support to families of affected infants and carriers
• Communicate complex sensitive information compassionately
• Support medicines optimisation and treatment adherence
• Develop and implement evidence-based clinical pathways, guidelines and standards of care
• Work with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies
• Contribute to clinical audit, quality improvement, research service development initiatives in line with national standards and best practice
• Act as a clinical expert, resource for staff within the speciality
• Provide education, training and support to healthcare professionals, patients, families
• Maintain professional competence
• Lead and participate in audit, governance, research, quality improvement
• Support service redesign, policy development and implementation of national and local guidance

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Essential

• Registered Children's Nurse (RN Child/RSCN) with current NMC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Significant post registration experience and experience at a band 6 post

Essential

• To be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise within paediatric practice
• Demonstrable experience of working with Patients with Haemoglobinopathies
• Demonstrable experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Demonstrable knowledge of clinical governance, safeguarding, risk management and quality improvement

Essential

• To be able to demonstrate the ability to work autonomously and make complex clinical decisions
• To be able to demonstrate leadership and role model behaviours
• To be able to demonstrate the ability to assess risk and take appropriate action
• To be able to demonstrate effective teaching, coaching and mentorship skills