Haemoglobinopathy Nurse Counsellor - Manchester, United Kingdom - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Manchester Local Care Organisation (MLCO) is a partnership organisation established 1st April 2018 to provide and manage integrated community health and social care across the city of Manchester.

MLCO's vision is 'Leading local care, improving lives in Manchester, with you'.

We want to support people to live healthy, independent, fulfilling lives and be part of a thriving and supportive community.

We want people to have fair and equitable access to health and social care services, receiving effective, safe, compassionate care, closer to their homes.

To provide care closer to home, MLCO operates across three localities in Manchester - the North locality, South locality and Central locality.

The Manchester Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Service is a city-wide service and it part of Adult and Specialists Services the Central locality.

The post holder will play an important role in ensuring the delivery of an equitable City-wide Haemoglobinopathy service provision and primarily be responsible for providing life span personalised care and advice on haemoglobinopathies within the community setting as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

The post holder will play an active part in delivering adult services, ensuring high quality, patient-centered, safe, efficient care in line with the Standards for Management of Sickle Cell disease.

To be a professional role model, leading and coordinating the care of young people/adults with Haemoglobinopathies and rare anaemias within the Trust.

To take continuing responsibility and accountability for the nursing management and organisation of this patient group.

To provide support for patients/families, teaching for staff on inpatient and day care units, ensuring a comprehensive service with a multidisciplinary team approach.

To manage a clinical caseload, clinics, education, audits and have an active involvement in service improvement.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of 2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts.

We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.

What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.

If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at

Qualified Non-medical prescriber
Experience at Band 6 within Haematology
Recent evidence of continuing professional and personal development, both clinical and managerial
Experience of implementation and management of nurse led clinics
Project management experience

Competent in word/database related PC packages

Flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of the service
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust