Community Adult Haemoglobinopathies Nurse

As part of the London Sickle Cell improvement programme, we are looking for a passionate, and caring Community Haemoglobinopathy Nurse to work jointly with our specialist teams and community services, in serving our sickle cell and thalassaemia population across our boroughs. Do you think you can make a difference, improve service provision, and address health inequalities with an emphasis on prevention and health promotion and therefore improving our health outcomes for our service users? This is an amazing opportunity for you to showcase your skills and to support the provision of specialist/non-specialist haemoglobinopathy services in our community. In conjunction with the haemoglobinopathies teams across North Central London, the post holder will contribute to the delivery and ongoing development of a high-quality specialist haemoglobinopathies service in the community. The post holder will provide care to people with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia in the home and in the hospital when required to improve standards and equity of care., In conjunction with the haemoglobinopathies teams across North Central London, the post holder will contribute to the delivery and ongoing development of a high-quality specialist haemoglobinopathies service in the community. The post holder will provide care to people with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia in the home and in the hospital when required to improve standards and equity of care. Key deliverables will include:

• 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.
• In-reach service to secondary care
• Close working with multidisciplinary colleagues in primary, secondary, and social care to enhance continuity of care for patients.
• Enable implementation of individual care plans for patients in all settings
  
  North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.