Haematology Day Unit Charge Nurse Band 6 | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Haemoglobinopathy adult day unit nurse sought out to join our busy sickle cell and thalassaemia nursing team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a 37.5 hours per week job which entails; day care patient management, Blood Transfusion, Automated Exchange Transfusion, Sickle Cell pain management, venesection and medication management.

This post will suit an experienced, enthusiastic, and motivated nurse with experience in caring for clients with blood disorder, clinical haematology, Accident and Emergency background and or critical care. This is the job for someone who fancies a challenge. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of the above conditions and must also be willing to learn or expand their expertise in this area.

Support can be given for further development and career progression. We are essentially looking a nurse who has excellent communication skills and enjoys working as part of a small team. The successful applicant must have experience in working in haematology or accident and emergency or critical care must be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience for caring for clients with blood disorders, nursing quality and clinical audit/clinical governance.

Clearly this not an opportunity to miss.

The post holder will play an essential role assisting the Senior Nurse and
Team Lead Nurses in leading the nursing team.

As an experienced nurse the post holder will co-ordinate activities on the department ensuring effective communication is always maintained, providing support to nurses within the department.

They will play a key role in the assessment of patient care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care.

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.

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To understand fully clinical haematological conditions including sickle cell and thalassaemia, and iron deficiency anaemia.
2. Care for patient's needs, who have such chronic conditions and pursue and
learn to achieve greater understanding Participate in the management of
haemoglobinopathy patients using Automated Exchange Transfusion.
3. Become proficient in the provision of the Apheresis service.
4. To administer daily, routine blood transfusions, automated exchange
transfusions, iron infusions venesections and other treatments prescribed by
the specialist Consultants to regular day attenders.
5. With the specialist team and the day unit team manage the care of patients
attending the haematology Day Unit in painful crisis or are acutely unwell and
liaise with acute and emergency services,
6. To plan and liaise with the Ward Manager and MDT to ensure efficient and
responsible use of resources.
7. To understand the need for vigilance and adherence to Trust and national
policies regarding blood products, Haemoglobinopathies and other clinical
haematology conditions.
8. To administer medication as directed and recognise the signs of patient
distress and deterioration and escalate appropriately.
9. Responsibility to provide a safe level of care for all the patients seen in the
clinical haematology services at North Middlesex University Hospital.
10. To act as an example and mentor for colleagues and students Work with the
ward manager and staff members.
11. To improve and develop the service delivery on the unit Participate in audits
and research to improve care and service on the Haematology Day Unit