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Job summary

Main area
nursing
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 24 months
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (secondment available)
Job ref
319-6197171AZ
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wansbeck Hospital
Town
Ashington
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Personalised Care Lead

NHS AfC: Band 7

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

This post has been funded by Macmillan Cancer Support for a  24 month fixed term contract or a secondment opportunity.  This post is an exciting opportunity for the post holder to support the developing personalised care agenda in Northumbria Healthcare Trust

The post holder will also support the scoping and mapping  out the  requirements for a new Northumbria  Macmillan Support and  Information service.

This post will continue to support clinical teams linking in with established support sector, primary care, public health, palliative care, acute teams and community services on the personalised care agenda in cancer and oncology care.  Fundamental will be patient engagement at all aspects of this development.

Underpinning this is the personalised care agenda (living with and beyond cancer), reducing health inequalities and ensuring patients/families can receive sign posting to local  support services.  The scope will utilise digital options, and the necessity for an agile service to meet the  users needs.

 

Main duties of the job

Be able to work independently - project management skills in scoping and mapping service need

Reporting writing and presentation skills  

Networking  with key stakeholders

Knowledge of cancer pathways and personalised care agenda,  third sector, community services, public health and reducing health inequalities 

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To lead on the local implementation of the Personalised care agenda–  to improve quality of life for people living with and beyond cancer across primary and secondary care settings.
  • Increase informational support to patients to live well after treatment (secondary prevention) utilising existing support services, local and third sector agencies, through the development of a Sport and Information Service.
  • Increase patient experience of their cancer care in primary and secondary
  • Ensure consistence of care across Northumberland and North Tyneside, working with primary care, secondary care (cancer teams) in delivering Personalised care agenda (health needs assessment, treatment summaries, GP Cancer reviews, well-being events and information support).
  • Support and bring about system change, implementing the agenda, as dictated by national and local drivers.
  • Support on the development, scoping, mapping, co-ordination, implementation of the Macmillan Information Services for cancer patients across the trust’s footprint.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree or equivalent professional Qualification of working in health & Social care environment.
  • Personalised care and/or Public health skills and knowledge acquired through specialist training or demonstrable experience and knowledge of the personalised care agendas
Desirable criteria
  • Public Health or related Post Graduate Masters Qualification

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Amanda Walshe
Job title
Lead Cancer Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07774 33 3308
Additional information

Martin O'Callaghan -  Cancer Services Manager

Tel: 03448118111 ext. 110618

Mob: 07856927506

 

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