Children's Haemoglobinopathy Nurse

Job overview

The haemoglobinopathy service at BHRUT is seeking to recruit a registered children's nurse who is looking to develop their clinical skills and knowledge in automated red cell exchange transfusion and caring for children with a red cell condition in a day care setting, offering red cell exchanges, blood transfusions, phlebotomy and cannulation.

We aim to develop the exchange transfusion service to offer an out of hours service to our sickle cell patient group and you would be expected to be part of the on-call team.

Experience working in day care is desirable but not essential. You will join an already existing team of specialist nurses to help expand the haemoglobinopathy service and will be supported by the lead nurse. We are keen to develop our nurses and you will have the opportunity to apply for courses to help improve your knowledge and confidence in caring for patients with sickle cell and thalassemia.

Main duties of the job

·Contribute to an on-call red cell exchange programme

·Work with the team and be proficient in automated red cell exchanges

·Accept patient referrals to agreed criteria and be identified as the key worker for an agreed patient/client caseload.

·Provide advice, education and support to patients, their carers and other health care professionals.

·Practice clinically in agreed care settings according to approved protocols or guidance.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RN Child or RSCN

Desirable criteria

• Teaching and Assessing in clinical areas (ENB998 or equivalent Haemoglobinopathy course: ENB N08

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Working with and/or caring for individuals with experience of sickle cell and thalassaemia

Desirable criteria

• Transfusion exchange or a willingness to learn.
• Setting up and running nurse-led clinics.

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent cannulation and venepuncture skills

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.