Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Community Matron - Haemoglobinopathies

The closing date is 31 January 2026

Job summary

In conjunction with the haemoglobinopathies leads across North Central London, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery, management and ongoing development of a high-quality specialist sickle cell and thalassemia service in the community. The post holder will provide expert clinical and Operational leadership and practice at an advanced level demonstrating a high level of autonomy and clinical decision making in the community.

The post holder will take day to day operational management responsibility for the planning,directing and performance management of the service. They will also ensure that service accessand delivery is efficient, effective, evidence-based needs led, and patient and carer focused. Theywill provide clear leadership, in partnership with Organizational Operational manager and equivalent community matron at Partner site in order to ensure timely screening, treatment and interventions by well led and motivated staff that contributes to promoting safety for patients and carers. The post holder will work with the Local Organizational Operational manager to ensure that team performance targets are consistently met by developing and implementing improvement plans as and when necessary.

Main duties of the job

To deliver effective Clinical and operational leadership and direction to staff and team
To provide line management to delegates of their team
Carry a Clinical caseload of complex patients
To act as Clinical expert for the wider team
o ensure services meet care quality and performance management standards
To ensure effective performance management and professional leadership of the workforce
To ensure services are cost effective and delivered within budget
To lead change management in the implementation of service development strategies
To create a culture in which innovative ideas and strategies can flourish and provide vision and inspiration to enable staff to deliver care more effectively
To work with the Service Manager to deliver robust financial management in line with Service Line, Divisional and Trust targets, including the realistic Cost Improvement Programmes
To represent the Service Line at external meetings with stakeholders
To deputise for the Service Manager as appropriate.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Date posted

16 January 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£64,156 to £71,148 a year Per annum inclusive of HCAs

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

220-WHT-3625

Job locations

Camden & Islington Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Centre

17a Hornsey Street

London

N7 8GG

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Duties and Responsibilities

1.1. Clinical

1.1.1. Empower patients and carers by providing health education enabling informed decisions about their care.

1.1.2.Enhance compliance with preventative actions such as vaccinations and prophylactic medications.

1.1.3. Provide guidance on self-management to prevent exacerbation of patients condition to reduce incidences of acute episodes requiring admission to secondary care.

1.1.4. Address social and lifestyle factors which impact on condition management and overall quality of life, directing to appropriate local support services and external agencies.

1.1.5. Act as a patient advocate through the application of ethical, legal, and professional knowledge and skills, considering the multicultural needs of the patient by identifying demographic factors that influence health care needs of this patient group.

1.1.6. Provide targeted support to high-intensity users of secondary care including directing patients into existing NCL programmes for frequent ED attenders.

1.1.7. Pre-contact with patients to reduce DNA rates to hospital.

1.1.8. Promote and enable implementation of individual care plans for patients in all settings.

1.1.9. Advise on appropriate drug management at home, including dosages and information on non-pharmacological management techniques. Follow up on a regular basis to monitor effectiveness of the regimen and compliance.

1.1.10. Where relevant, utilise advanced prescribing skills within the guidance from NMC and Trust

1.1.11. Provide in-reach service to secondary care.

1.1.12. Implementation of a patient outreach health education group programme, and organisation of patient led education sessions.

1.1.13. Promote good clinical practice in line with evidence-based guidelines and policies.

1.1.14. Work closely with haematologists, ward sisters and nurses to initiate timely early discharge planning and facilitate community services for early discharges.

1.1.15. Support and lead nurse led clinics, telephone, or face to face, interpreting results, taking appropriate action, and feeding back into MDT meetings and reviews.

1.1.16. Lead on community MDT discussions within the department and with other specialities.

1.1.17. Participate in specialist on-call/ advice line rota.

1.1.18. Support Virtual Ward programmes providing specialist assessment and advice.

1.1.19. Highly developed clinical skills, with great accuracy, with high degree of precision e.g. blood transfusion, intravenous injections, syringe pumps and infusions, insertion of catheters, remove of sutures/undertakes suturing, endoscopies

1.1.20. To ensure nursing practice is in accordance with the NMC code of conduct.

1.2. Education and Training

1.2.1. Identify own training needs taking responsibility for maintaining own professional development, continuously reflecting on monitoring, evaluating, and improving own professional performance.

1.2.2. Lead on training programme development for the service in the community.

1.2.3. Participate in addressing the training needs of other health professional involved in the service, and other relevant services.

1.2.4. Organise and develop community-based sickle cell & thalassaemia pain management study days / seminars.

1.2.5. Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records of attendance at training, for both self and other members of the specialist nursing team.

1.2.6. To engage and help develop competency packages for each patient pathway and ensure all relevant staff members in the community are trained and assessed as competent.

1.2.7. To ensure that staff receive appropriate training and professional development in accordance with professional recommendations.

1.3. Communication

1.3.1. Build trust with patients to enhance their overall healthcare experience.

1.3.2. Communicate effectively with patients ensuring an individualised and equitable approach to all, taking in to account the complex and sensitive nature of condition management needs for red cell disorders.

1.3.3. Develop and maintain close links with multidisciplinary colleagues in primary, secondary, and social care to support early referral and enhance continuity of care for patients.

1.3.4. Ensure that appropriate, consistent written information is available for patients, relatives, staff, and visitors and that this is reviewed, updated, and promoted.