Haemoglobinopathy Community Clinical Nurse Specialist Team Leader

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Brent Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Service!

The Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre provides specialist community services to children and adults with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia. It was the first centre of its kind to be set up in the United Kingdom, over 40 years ago. As part of a Pan-London Sickle Cell Improvement Programme, NHS England has provided funding to improve Sickle Cell Community Services in North West London. LNWH are recruiting to 2 new posts, includingCommunity Clinical Nurse Specialist Team Leader - Haemoglobinopathies. The service will provide nursing care to adults with Sickle Cell in the boroughs of Brent and Harrow.

We are seeking an experienced clinical nurse specialist with experience of haemoglobinopathy conditions and/or genetic counselling from either acute or community settings. Training and supervision will be provided to ensure the knowledge and skills to meet the demands of the role. The service will work closely with the wider community haemoglobinopathy teams, including Central London Community Health Trust and the Haemoglobinopathy Co-ordinating Centre at Imperial NHS Trust to provide an integrated service across NWL ICB.

Main duties of the job

You will manage the team of nurses working across the 2 boroughs, helping to develop the service, building strong connections in the neighbouring boroughs within the project, and working together as a team in offering clinical support to people with haemoglobinopathy conditions at different stages of their lives, from antenatal screening, newborn screening, childhood, through to adults living with a long-term chronic condition. You will have a clinical caseload alongside your management responsibilities, to ensure you have opportunity to continue to develop your own clinical skills.

Your office base will at the Brent Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Centre, Central Middlesex Hospital. Patients will be supported by the team at Imperial NHS Trust sites of Hammersmith and St. Marys Hospitals, and the team will provide nursing support in patient homes and venues local to their homes across the 2 boroughs.

If you are an experienced haemoglobinopathy nurse, with management experience looking for an exciting opportunity to expand, develop haemoglobinopathy nursing, and be part of an amazing transformation project, then this is a great opportunity for you!

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.