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Haemoglobinopathy Nurse Counsellor | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 21 August 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 20 September 2025
Location: Manchester, M13 9NL
Company: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 7434293/349-LCO-7434293C

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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.


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 andspecialistadultnursing in community. Provide health awareness and self care management.

Establish an education and health support facility foradultsaffected andfamilies/carersand provide continued care andeducation,supportand 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.


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.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll 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 you’ll 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 atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!


This advert closes on Thursday 4 Sep 2025

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