Community Matron - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Band 8a Community Matron - Haemoglobinopathies ( fixed term)

An exciting 2 year opportunity has risen for a Band 8a Community Matron in our new Adult Haemoglobinopathies (Red Cell) Community Service.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team across NCL (North Central London) in delivering a high-quality specialist sickle cell and thalassemia service in the community.

You will be based at Whittington Health NHS Trust for this new post in an expanding team across NCL.

We are looking for dynamic, compassionate team members to support the care of patients with red cell disorder in North Central London working in a community capacity with a passion for care integrated around our patients.

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.

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

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

Targeted support to high-intensity users of secondary care including directing patients into existing NCL programmes for frequent ED attenders.

Developing and maintaining close links with multidisciplinary colleagues in primary, secondary, and social care to enhance continuity of care for patients.

To enable implementation of individual care plans for patients in all settings