Haemophilia Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

• To provide professional and clinical leadership and expert care in the specialty of haemophilia and related disorders and to act as a resource for education and clinical expertise in hospital, network and community settings.
• To liaise effectively with all members of the multi-professional healthcare team to achieve co-ordinated specialist service.
• To act autonomously within scope of practice, guided by current clinical protocols and research protocols and relevant investigations and procedures employed in the diagnosis and treatment of haemophilia and related disorders.
• To be expert in the assessment and management of haemophilia and related disorders.
• To offer an individual comprehensive service and psychological support to patients and carers respecting their diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
• To maintain local and national databases from which to audit patients and their outcomes.
• To work across hospital sites where this is indicated and as the needs of the service change.
• To escalate any clinical issues to the appropriate team member.

Main duties of the job

'A highly experienced, knowledgeable and educated member of the team who is able to work autonomously making high level decisions to treat health needs'.

• Working within the Haemophilia Team as a Haemophilia CNS, caring for Adult patients.
• The nurse will work in collaboration with other Haemophilia CNS's to support the consultants in providing patient reviews, patient and family community support, GP support, as well as establishing a robust nursing education programme.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, the Trust is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.