Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Nurse Specialist Apheresis ( Adult Haemoglobinopathies)
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-UT7128
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Lewisham
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/09/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist Apheresis (Adult Haemoglobinopathies)
Band 6
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Haemoglobinopathy nursing team for a vacant post to support the expanding apheresis service. Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust was granted Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Team (SHT) status in April 2019 and services an adult and paediatric haemoglobinopathy patient population of approximately 1000, one of the largest in the country.
The posts will join an established Clinical Nurse Specialist team at LGT and will develop clinical links with teams of the tertiary centres of KCH and GSTT when joint management of complex patients is required. The apheresis service is currently provided at the University Hospital site, however, with expansion of the service the successful candidates will be expected to travel to the Queen Elizabeth site to deliver the care.
The successful candidate is expected to be part of a dynamic team of Clinical Nurse Specialists to support the expanding apheresis service for the Trust.
There will be training and support provided until the successful candidate becomes independent. Expected to work as a member of the team providing apheresis services for haemoglobinopathies patients, offer to follow up and review.
Be ready to provide emergency Red Blood Cell exchange services to acutely unwell Haemoglobinopathy patients.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high-quality specialist nursing support to the erythrocytopheresis program. Successful candidates will be responsible for all aspects of clinical care for patients undergoing apheresis including line management as well as daily coordination of the service to ensure service efficiency through managing patient allocation and new referrals.
To work collaboratively with haematology multidisciplinary team, providing support, advice and formal education in caring for patients. Act in an advisory capacity and as a point of contact for patients with haemoglobinopathy conditions.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Summary:
In line with the Trust’s Annual Business Plan you will be working as part of a Specialist Team providing expert nursing/midwifery practice and cost-effective service to patients requiring routine and emergency care, from outpatients, pre-admission through to discharge and review at home across primary and secondary care. The Division aims to provide an environment conducive to the on-going development of all staff and advancements in the quality of the service by ensuring provision of a high standard of training, teaching and clinical care within the acute/community setting. Under the support and guidance of the Clinical Nurse Specialist make clinical judgements, which will require assessment, planning and implementation of treatment, ensuring that all specialist patients and their carers have access to appropriate advice and support.
Expectations:
• To work with the multidisciplinary team across an integrated pathway of care to deliver quality standards in line with NICE guidance.
• To work with the nurse specialist team to ensure that all patients have equitable access to investigations, treatment and follow-up care.
• To work with the nurse/midwifery specialist team to develop best practice in line with NICE guidance.
• To work with the team to develop guidelines to enhance optimal management of patients. • To collect appropriate data against NICE guidance. To use audit as a tool to improve practice and evaluate services. To work with the team to implement recommendations from National audits and benchmarking.
• To identify objectives for own professional development which reflect local and national service needs, accessing advice, guidance and support as appropriate. Interviewer information pack Performance
• To demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills and share this with others to positively influence patient care.
• To develop own specialist clinical knowledge and skills and participate in the development of other staff
• To reflect on own practice through clinical supervision/mentorship
• To provide a comprehensive nursing service for patients with conditions within the specialty.
• To work in close liaison with the multi-disciplinary team across the pathway in order to meet the needs of patients and their families and to aim for seamless care.
• To use clinical judgement and skills in decision making to manage this caseload of patients. •To develop skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct appropriate intervention.
• To assist in the development of the service
• To vigorously promote the patient’s participation in decision-making, enabling informed choice of treatment.
• To contribute to any audits requested by the Trust, Commissioners or Nationally.
• To identify deteriorating patients and take the appropriate action to manage the situation, liaising with interdisciplinary team as appropriate.
• To obtain valid and effective consent from patients prior to any investigations and treatment.
Work force
• To attend meetings relevant to the role and represent views of others in formal surroundings
• To contribute both formally and informally to the education, training and development of clinical staff across the integrated pathway of care.
• To contribute to the implementation of NICE guidance to ensure the continuous education of staff in appropriate clinical areas in relation to their understanding and utilisation of evidence-based practice.
• To establish effective working relationships with other health care professionals whose role impinges on the services.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Level 1
- Nursing Degree or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Teaching or Mentoring Qualification and Experience
- Haemoglobinopathies Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years post graduate experience
- Experience of working within the multidisciplinary team
- Ability to work autonomously
Desirable criteria
- Experience in apheresis
- Experience in central/peripheral venous catheter access (femoral lines, port-a-caths).
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Knowledge and understanding of the relevant NICE guidance
- Evidence of continued professional development of self and other health care professionals
Desirable criteria
- IT skills/applications in word, spreadsheet, power chart, Cerner/iCare.
- Knowledge of research and audit
- Knowledge of NICE guidance on haemoglobinopathies
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michael Barns
- Job title
- Lead ACP Haematology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07353891733
- Additional information
Michael Barns
Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Haematology
Acute Sickle Cell Unit (ASCU)
07353891733
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