Haemoglobinopathy Specialist Nurse (adults)

Northampton General Hospital; Northampton; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Part time

Job summary

Northampton General Hospital is recruiting a Haemoglobinopathy Specialist Nurse (adults) at Band 7. The post is permanent and part-time (22.5 hours/week) with a pro rata salary of £49,387–£56,515 per annum. The primary base will be at Kettering with potential to work across NGH and KGH.

The successful candidate will deliver expert nursing care to adults with haemoglobinopathy disorders, lead education, and work within a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes and service quality.

Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of education, training or experience.
• Holds an NMC pin.
• Evidence of post-registration education and development to Masters level or equivalent level of education, training or experience.
• Clinical Leadership Programme.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist nursing support ensuring quality of care to adults with haemoglobinopathy disorders.
• Work with multidisciplinary team to provide patient-focused services and initiate treatments.
• Create and provide specialist education to patients and families.
• Work with the team to monitor patient condition and nursing practice development.
• Lead Haemoglobinopathy training across NGH and KGH.
• Promote patient-centred care and involve patients and families.
• Manage a caseload and delegate to team as needed.
• Support and advise on service improvement and research initiatives.

Skills

Assertive and confident

Personal and professional maturity

Recognition of own limitations

Demonstrates enthusiasm

Evidence of change management

Ability to motivate self and others

Ability to supervise

Supervise, educate and develop others

Ability to prioritise and organise own

Education

Degree level equivalent

NMC pin

Masters level post‑registration education

Clinical Leadership Programme

Job description

Haemoglobinopathy Specialist Nurse (adults)

Band 7

Main area Haemoglobinopathy Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 265-8047005-CSS-A

Site University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Town Northampton Salary £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata/per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

You may be required to work in other designated locations of the Trust as well as your primary base. The Northampton Specialist haemoglobinopathy team currently incorporates Northampton and Kettering, flexibility is required across the two main hospital sites.

This post will require the post holder to primarily base at Kettering.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• To provide specialist nursing support ensuring the quality of care provision to adults who have Haemoglobinopathy disorders using unit protocols and trust policies and guidelines.
• To work with the multi professional team to provide patient focused Haemoglobinopathy services, and to initiate different forms of treatment for adults and their families in a variety of settings.
• To work with the multi professional team in Haemoglobinopathy services.
• To create and provide specialist education, training and information to patients and families.
• To work with the multi professional team to monitor patient condition.
• To be responsible for nursing practice development.
• Will work alongside the Matron for Haemoglobinopathies to ensure the service is delivered in line with the service specification and within the remit of the allocated budget, which will vary depending on the numbers of patients treated.
• Recognise the importance of utilisation of resources is paramount and ensure maximal use of those available to enable the delivery of the highest standards of care.
• Be expected to focus on specialist education and training to all members of the multidisciplinary team within the service. Creating and facilitating training programmes.
• The post holder will be a key member of the team to ensure the implementation of the specialist service specification for Haemoglobinopathy.

Working for our organisation

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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.

Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

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.

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 the philosophy of patient centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the patient and their family at all times.

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.

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.

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.

Liaison point of contact for patients.

Co-ordinate hydroxycarbamide treatment.

Education in Emergency Department and Assessment unit, as well as Haematology areas.

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.

The post holder will manage a small team and report to Matron.

Educations, Training and Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
• Holds an NMC pin
• Evidence of post-registration education and development to Masters level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
• Clinical Leadership Programme

Knowledge and Experience

• Relevant clinical experience at band 6 or above
• Specialist knowledge and experience within the area of speciality
• Experience in managing a team
• Evidence of autonomous practice

Skills

• Assertive and confident
• Personal and professional maturity
• Recognition of own limitations Demonstrates enthusiasm
• Evidence of change management.
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Ability to supervise
• Supervise, educate and develop others
• Ability to prioritise and organise own working day

Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes

• Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs.
• All staff are expected to engage in compassionate and inclusively

At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.

We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence designated accreditation from the American nurses credentialing centre (ANCC).

We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That’s why we talk about Team NGH. It’s all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills. We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds.This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Our Excellence Values:

• Compassion
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courageous
• Accountable

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust recognises that staff of differing backgrounds and life experiences enrich our workforce and bring different skills and knowledge. We therefore encourage and welcome applications for our vacancies from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.