Community Matron - Adult Haemoglobinopathies
| Posting date: | 25 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £56,388.00 to £62,785.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £56388.00 - £62785.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | St Ann’s Road, London, N15 3TH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9393-24-0344 |
Summary
Empower patients and carers by providing health education enabling informed decisions about their care. Enhance compliance with preventative actions such as vaccinations and prophylactic medications. Provide guidance on self-management to prevent exacerbation of patients condition to reduce incidences of acute episodes requiring admission to secondary care. Address social and lifestyle factors which impact on condition management and overall quality of life, directing to appropriate local support services and external agencies. 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. Provide targeted support to high-intensity users of secondary care including directing patients into existing NCL programmes for frequent ED attenders. Pre-contact with patients to reduce DNA rates to hospital. Promote and enable implementation of individual care plans for patients in all settings. 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. Where relevant, utilise advanced prescribing skills within the guidance from NMC and Trust. Provide in-reach service to secondary care. Implementation of a patient outreach health education group programme, and organisation of patient led education sessions. Promote good clinical practice in line with evidence-based guidelines and policies. Work closely with haematologists, ward sisters and nurses to initiate timely early discharge planning and facilitate community services for early discharges. Support and lead nurse led clinics, telephone, or face to face, interpreting results, taking appropriate action, and feeding back into MDT meetings and reviews. Lead on community MDT discussions within the department and with other specialities. Participate in specialist on-call/ advice line rota. Support Virtual Ward programmes providing specialist assessment and advice. 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. To ensure nursing practice is in accordance with the NMC code of conduct.