Haemoglobinopathy Nurse Counsellor

Job summary

Manchester Local Care Organisation (MLCO) is a partnership organisation established 1st April 2018 to provide and manage integrated community health and social care across the city of Manchester. MLCO's vision is 'Leading local care, improving lives in Manchester, with you'. We want to support people to live healthy, independent, fulfilling lives and be part of a thriving and supportive community. We want people to have fair and equitable access to health and social care services, receiving effective, safe, compassionate care, closer to their homes. To provide care closer to home, MLCO operates across three localities in Manchester - the North locality, South locality and Central locality. Within each locality there are four Integrated Neighborhood Teams. The Manchester Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Service is a city-wide service and it part of Adult and Specialists Services the Central locality.

Haemoglobinopathy Nurse Counsellor-Band 6 ,to join a team ,that provide support for patients with Sickle Cell Disorder.Providing community support ,attending Consultant clinics for patients discharged from the Sickle Cell Unit/Ward 10 ,MRI. Supporting patients in the home following discharge.

Main duties of the job

Haemoglobinopathy Nurse Counsellor will be part of community nurses working with SCU at MRI. Attend sickle clinic for patients discharged from Ward 10/ SCU, support and follow up with community visits and specialist adult nursing in community.Provide health awareness and self care management.

Establish an education and health support facility for adults affected and families/carers and provide continued care and education, support and advocacy.

Post holder will play important role in ensuring delivery of equitable City-wide Haemoglobinopathy service provision and primarily be responsible for providing life span personalised care and advice on haemoglobinopathies within community setting as part of multi-disciplinary team. Post holder will play active part in delivering adult services, ensuring high quality, patient-centered, safe, efficient care in line with Standards for Management of Sickle Cell disease. Be a professional role model, leading and coordinating care of young people/adults with Haemoglobinopathies and rare anaemias. Take continuing responsibility and accountability for nursing management and organisation of patient group. Have extensive knowledge of Sickle cell and Thalassaemia. Provide support for patients/families, teaching for staff on inpatient and day care units, ensuring a comprehensive service with a multidisciplinary team approach. Manage clinical caseload, clinics, education, audits and have active involvement in service improvement.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Essential and desirable

Essential

• Achieved Grade/Nursing Registration
• Diploma/Degree level
• Car Diver/Full U.K Licence

Desirable

• Experience in Haemoglobinopathies
• Community Experience
• Interest In Haemoglobinopathies

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).