Medical Haematology Nurse Practitioner Haemophilia

Employer:

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM), Site:
Royal Stoke Town, Stoke On Trent, Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata, Salary period:
Yearly, Closing 16/07/2026 23:59

The Medical Haematology Nurse Practitioner role is to provide holistic care to adults with medical haematology conditions, such as Haemophilia and inherited bleeding disorders. In addition to their speciality-specific caseload, you will share responsibility for the wider general medical haematology workload, including red cell disorders, sickle cell disease, transfusion and other benign haematology referrals. Close support will be given to develop clinical expertise, with supervision and guidance by the medical haematology consultant team.

The post involves undertaking face to face clinic review, telephone assessment, inpatient review and domiciliary visits with both routine scheduled work and ad hoc assessment according to clinical need. The individual must therefore be able to work autonomously, prioritise workload in response to service need and have good time management and organisational skills.

Though working mostly with adult patients, the post holder will also provide care for a small cohort of paediatric and adolescent patients. The post holder will work collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the provision of high‑quality, safe, and effective patient‑centred care. In addition, they will contribute to service development, clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement initiatives to support continuous improvement of the service.

• Act as a named key worker for patients registered with the UHNM Haemophilia Centre, providing continuity of care across outpatient, inpatient and home‑treatment settings.
• Review patients in nurse‑led haemophilia clinics, undertake independent health assessment, arrange investigations and review results with timely electronic documentation and clear management plans.
• Coordinate and deliver factor replacement therapy, including education and ongoing support for home‑treatment programmes, and oversight of prophylaxis regimens including extended half‑life and non‑factor therapies (e.g. emicizumab).
• Contribute to the assessment and management of inhibitor development, immune tolerance induction and bleeding episodes requiring bypassing agents.
• Support peri‑operative and peri‑procedural planning for patients with bleeding disorders in collaboration with surgical, dental, obstetric and anaesthetic teams.
• Provide specialist input to women and girls with bleeding disorders, including joint care with obstetrics and gynaecology for menstrual management, pregnancy and delivery planning.
• Maintain accurate data entry onto the National Haemophilia Database (NHD) and engage with UKHCDO audits and reporting.
• Participate in the Haemophilia Comprehensive Care Centre MDT and liaise with the regional haemophilia network.
• Support the transition of young people from paediatric to adult haemophilia services in collaboration with paediatric colleagues.

• Educated to degree level
• NMC Registration
• Health Assessment
• Evidence of higher level study at Masters level

• Experience working with patients who have haemophilia and inherited bleeding disorders
• Knowledge and experience of blood transfusion
• Evidence of haematology experience
• Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
• Evidence of ability to work as part of the wider team
• Experience using intravenous access lines/ports

• Take responsibility and is accountable for delivering their agreed objectives
• Reliably delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
• Uses own initiative and takes responsibility for actions

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.