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Detailed job description and main 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.