Specialist Nurse: Sickle Cell Disease Thalassaemia and Rare Anaemias

This is a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic, motivated nurse to develop the skills to be able to work flexibly with both adult and paediatric services, across the network. You will be part of our whole life service and will be an integral team member. As a key point of contact for a defined caseload you will provide support, education and information to patients and families. In addition, you will also be supporting the Education Lead nurse to identify, support and deliver education to stakeholders within our HCC region., Our network works to a 'whole of life' approach to care, so our paediatric and adult teams are very closely linked, with joint quality and service development organisation. The specialist nurses work closely as a team and have many joint projects, such as transition, education and service development. We work closely with our adult and paediatric specialist nurses in Milton Keynes, as well as community and primary care services across the region. The teams have monthly MDT's, local clinics and outreach clinics to the network hospitals.

To be our successful candidate you will have a creative, caring and compassionate nature, a strong interest in teaching patients and staff, superb interpersonal skills and the resilience to work in a developing environment. Your excellent communication skills will enable you to engage with clinical staff, patients and their families in decision-making and self-care and support them in managing their health care needs. Whilst the role is Oxford-based, depending on where you live, we may be able to allocate local hospitals close to your home. Specific experience within this specialty is not essential as we will ensure you have the orientation, support, education and training required to develop within this role.,

• Registered nurse: adult and or children's
• First degree in nursing, (HEI Level 5 or 6) or equivalent
• Post graduate level working evidenced via a continuing professional development portfolio
Desirable criteria
• Completed or completing postgraduate level (HEI level 7) study or willing undertake
• Teaching / Assessment/ Mentoring qualification, Demonstrates up to date knowledge in the specialty
• Knowledge of the key professional issues and NMC guidelines relating to professional practice
• Evidence of being able to work across organisational boundaries
Desirable criteria
• Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice
• Experience/knowledge of chronic, lifelong illness and transition, Previous experience of formal/informal teaching of patients and staff
• Demonstrates high level written and verbal communication skills
• IT skills, Evidence of being able to work across complex multidisciplinary teams, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel., We are looking for a flexible, motivated, and dynamic nurse to join our small, friendly, creative and forward thinking Haemoglobinopathy team. The newly created vacancy has arisen due to our expanding patient numbers and service needs. Our well established Thames Valley Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Network, cares for approximately 600 adults and children, with Sickle cell disease, Thalassaemia, and other Rare Anaemias. The network covers Oxford, Milton Keynes, Swindon, Wexham Park, Reading, and Frimley Health hospitals. Background The care of this group of patients and families is determined by national Haemoglobinopathy care standards (please see the links to the adult (Link here) and paediatric guidelines (link here), and link here. Our specialist network is peer reviewed to the Quality Review Service standards (link here). In 2019, NHS England reconfigured care for this group of patients and our network. Oxford is a designated Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Team (SHT) and also a Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre (HCC). This means that whilst continuing to manage our own network we also support and have oversite of the Wessex network. Nationally, this is a really exciting time, and we aim to continue to improve access to high quality care for all patients with these rare and potentially debilitating conditions., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.