Haemophilia Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Basingstoke and Deane; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist to deliver high-quality care and lead a multidisciplinary team. The role involves managing complex paediatric cases and providing specialist education to staff. Experience in a similar role and excellent leadership skills are essential. This position covers outpatient services across multiple locations, ensuring comprehensive care for paediatric patients and their families.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in paediatric care.
• Ability to work across multiple clinical sites.
• Must demonstrate strong leadership and educational skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a seven-day, twenty-four-hour service in the clinical area.
• Maintain high standards of professional practice.
• Lead clinical audits and undertake research projects.
• Provide specialist education and support to the team.

Skills

Leadership

High level analysis

Clinical assessment

Specialist education

Patient care

Education

Relevant Nursing Qualification

Job description

Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust considers the Band 7 Senior Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist role as pivotal to the optimal care of our paediatric and young people, and to the success of our Trust. The delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate care is a high priority within the organisation. This leadership role gives you the opportunity to encourage and reflect these values within your team and to our patients.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a seven‑day, twenty‑four‑hour service in the clinical area you are responsible for.
• Maintain high standards of professional practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care, experience, and the patient journey.
• Assess, plan and implement complex paediatric care.
• Lead as the specialist in the clinical area.
• Provide highly specialist advice and treatment‑planning support to clinical areas and to your own caseload of patients.
• Provide specialist education to other staff and students, ensuring and developing basic specialist knowledge and skills within the wider clinical teams.
• Lead clinical audits and may undertake research and development projects.
• Participate in the productivity and financial management of the clinical area.
• Lead by example and ensure clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care, meeting all compliance requirements such as CQC and contract standards.
• Lead the complex assessment of children/young people and their families/carers, where factors may be conflicting, requiring high‑level analysis and interpretation skills and comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatment or discharge planning.
• Develop clinically reasoned treatment, action and discharge plans, and undertake and evaluate treatment.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and leaders in tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors.

The work is mainly an out‑patient based service, including routine clinics, emergency walk‑ins to the Haemophilia Centre and community visits. There will also be the need to provide care and support for in‑patients. The role involves looking after paediatric patients and their families/carers, with assistance occasionally for adult patients. The person will primarily work across sites at the Haemophilia centre in Basingstoke and at least three days a week in Queen Alexandra Portsmouth, while also supporting care across the Southern Haemophilia Network (SHN). Nurses will be required to be part of the team that provides this comprehensive service.

SHN is a clinical network providing care for patients with haemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders in Basingstoke, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Poole and Salisbury. The SHN team includes a network director, deputy director, lead nurse, lead physiotherapist and operational manager, and offers comprehensive care close to the patient’s home where possible. A weekly network MDT meeting reviews all in‑patients and complex out‑patients, newly diagnosed patients for registration, planned surgery or obstetric deliveries, and psychosocial needs.

This advert closes on Friday 14 Nov 2025.