Haemophilia Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7 Senior Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist role is pivotal to the optimal care of our paediatric and young people at Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.
Job Summary
The delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate care is a high priority within the organisation. This leadership role gives you the opportunity to encourage and reflect these values within your team and to our patients.
Main duties
* High standards of Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care, experience and the patient journey.
* Assess, plan and implement complex care.
* Lead specialist in clinical area.
* Provides highly specialist advice and treatment planning support to clinical areas and to own caseload of patients.
* Provides specialist education to other staff and students ensuring, developing and maintaining basic specialist knowledge and skills in the wider clinical teams to ensure continuity of high‑quality care in the absence of specialist teams.
* Leads clinical audits in clinical area and may undertake research and development.
* Involvement in the productivity and financial management of a clinical area.
* Leading by example.
* Ensuring clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved.
* Effective leadership.
* Lead on the complex assessment of specialist child/young person their family/carer conditions, where factors may be conflicting, requiring high level analysis and interpretation skills and the comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatment or discharge planning.
* To develop clinically reasoned treatment, action and discharge plans and to undertake and evaluate treatment.
About Us
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire. Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive. We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year.
Details
* Date posted: 31 October 2025
* Pay scheme: Agenda for change
* Band: Band 7
* Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata
* Contract: Permanent
* Working pattern: Full‑time
* Reference number: 251‑SURG6466‑HAEMA
* Job locations: Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital, Aldermaston Road, Basingstoke, RG24 9NA
Job responsibilities
The work is mainly an out‑patient based service including care within routine clinics, emergency walk‑ins to the Haemophilia Centre and community visits. There will also be the need to provide care and support for in‑patients. The post would involve looking after paediatric patients and their families/carers with assistance on occasions with some adult patients. The person will primarily be working across sites at the Haemophilia centre in Basingstoke and a minimum of 3 days a week in Queen Alexandra Portsmouth. However, care for the child/young person and their family/carer with bleeding disorders is provided across the Southern Haemophilia Network (SHN) and nurses will be required to be part of the team that provide this service.
SHN is a clinical network providing care for patients with haemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders in Basingstoke, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Poole and Salisbury. The SHN team has a network director, deputy director, lead nurse, lead physiotherapist and operational manager and provides comprehensive care close to the patients home where possible. There is a weekly network MDT meeting which includes review of all in‑patients and complex out‑patients, newly diagnosed patients for registration, management of any planned surgery or obstetric deliveries and to review the psychosocial needs of patients who have been seen in clinics or at other times. The service offers all aspects of holistic comprehensive care as described in the National Service Specification B05/S/a with full‑time Consultants in Haemostasis & Thrombosis supported by very experienced, highly skilled specialist nurses, allied health professional team and healthcare scientists.
Person Specification – Essential
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) clearly recorded for professional profile
* Evidence of significant post registration clinical work experience to master's level
* Evidence of implementing significant changes or service developments that promote good practice
* Design and delivery of effective organisation wide training programmes and/or interventions
* Experience of staff supervision and mentorship including employee relations, performance, conduct and training needs analysis
* Adherence to current statutory requirements, standards and regulations
* Awareness of local and national agenda within the speciality
* Highly specialised clinical skills across the relevant speciality including expertise in venepuncture, accessing IVAD's and ability to administer IV drugs
* Organisational and on‑going planning skills including own workload and of others in an unpredictable environment
* Advanced communication skills including communicating complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; liaising and negotiating effectively; understanding and disseminating multifaceted information
* Customer Service experience, e.g. dealing with complaints, to manage any barriers to information
* Ability to work and lead within a multidisciplinary team across an organisation
* Understanding of effective clinical governance including implications, quality and audit
* Able to deliver formal and informal learning sessions to all groups of professionals
* Applies a good understanding of Equality & Diversity in all areas of work
* Willingly work flexible hours on occasion
* Full driving licence
* Access to own vehicle, insured for business use
* Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
* Professional UK registration with NMC Registered nurse part 8 or 12
* Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination of alternative study or employment experience
* Work experience to masters/MSc level
* Post‑registration qualification(s) in field of expertise, e.g. Haemophilia Contemporary Care course
* Level 3 Certificate/Diploma in Management and Leadership or equivalent (e.g. Level 3 NVQ)
* Computer literate, including Microsoft 365
* Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent study or work experience
* Specific postgraduate course, e.g. prescribing course or willingness to undertake, e.g. NMP V300
Person Specification – Desirable
* Experience of project management for policy development or large‑scale projects
* Experience of workforce budgets and staff development planning
* Involvement in project team for developing and implementing departmental business plans or organisation wide developments
* Understanding of Health Environment policies and legislation including Clinical, HR, E&D, Governance
* Highly specialised clinical skills relevant to the speciality
* The ability to work at problems from a unique or different angle
* Confidence in using, manipulating and analysing data
* Professional UK registration with NMC Registered nurse part 1 or 15
* Member of relevant special interest group
* Communication skills learning and/or development
* Level 5 Certificate/Diploma in Management and Leadership or equivalent
* Project management learning or development
* Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
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.
Employer details
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital
Aldermaston Road
Basingstoke
RG24 9NA
Employer's website: https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/
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