Job overview

We are seeking an experienced haemoglobinopathy or haematology nurse leader to join the North Central London Community Red Cell Service as a Community Matron. This role focuses on improving care for individuals living with sickle cell disease, thalassaemia and other inherited red cell disorders across North Central London.

As part of the London Sickle Cell improvement programme, we are looking for a passionate, and caring Community Haemoglobinopathy Matron to work jointly with our specialist teams and community services, in serving our sickle cell and thalassaemia population across our boroughs.

Do you think you can make a difference, improve service provision, and address health inequalities with an emphasis on prevention and health promotion and therefore improving our health outcomes for our service users?

This is an amazing opportunity for you to showcase your skills and to support the provision of specialist/non-specialist haemoglobinopathy services in our community.

In conjunction with the haemoglobinopathies teams across North Central London, the post holder will contribute to the delivery and ongoing development of a high-quality specialist haemoglobinopathies service in the community. The post holder will provide care to people with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia in the home and in the hospital when required to improve standards and equity of care.

Main duties of the job

In conjunction with the haemoglobinopathies leads across North Central London, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery, management and ongoing development of a high-quality specialist sickle cell and thalassemia service in the community. The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership and practice at an advanced level demonstrating a high level of autonomy and clinical decision making in the community.

Key deliverables will include:

• Responsibility for the quality of care delivered within the Community Red Cell Service and for demonstrating quality standards applied.
• To be a source of expert advice on Haemoglobinopathies to health care and other professionals working with affected people and their families.
• Develop and plan a training strategy for other health care professionals.
• Participate in Regional and National working groups on Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia.

• Provision of health education and guidance on self-management to prevent exacerbation of patient’s condition to reduce incidences of acute episodes requiring admission to secondary care.
• Enhancing compliance with preventative actions such as vaccinations and prophylactic medications
• Addressing social and lifestyle factors which impact on condition management and overall quality of life and directing to appropriate local resources.
• Building trust with patients

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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