Band 7 Childrens Sickle Cell & Thallasemia Nurse Specialist

Our children's team provide acute care across a range of clinical specialties including but not limited to oncology haematology respiratory diabetes, endocrine neurology and day surgery These services are supported by clinical nurse specialists. We also provide a children's community nursing team We are continuing to grow and develop our children's services and teams, and this is led by our Director of Nursing for Child Health, our Lead Nurse and our matrons across children's and Neonatal ServicesWe are looking for an outstanding Registered Children's Nurse who embodies our Trust PRIDE Values to come and work alongside our Paediatric Haemoglobinopathy team as a Clinical Nurse Specilaist. The candidate will work to further develop the service with haemoglobin disorders, providing clinical advice and as a care co-ordinator for children and young people affected by Sickle Cell and Thalassemia attending Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospital NHS Trust (BHRUT) In addition, the
post holder will provide education and consultation widely to professional colleagues at BHRUT and the boroughs it serves. The overall aim of this post is to promote a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research, development, and innovation.It will be essential to work across the community and the hospital setting to improve standards and equity of care whilst promoting an integrated care pathway, suitable discharge planning and improving patient outcomes, The post holder will be responsible for delivering a high level of nursing care and have

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres
at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.