Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (ends 31st March 25)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 390-SUR-SO-5019
- Employer
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Broomfield
- Town
- Chelmsford
- Salary
- £43,742 Per Annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
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Prostate Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people. Our newly formed Trust, comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend, is determined to provide the best health services for its local population. We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation working in the best interests of the people we serve.
Job overview
We are looking for a nurse with demonstable urological experience to join our friendly team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist to help drive forward our service and influence the positive experience of patients and carers living with prostate cancer.
If successful you will work as an independent practitioner and with members of the multidisciplinary team, provide advice and support to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals on prostate cancer, across both secondary and primary care. You will also help promote safe, competent and evidence- based practice, in line with national objectives and within the clinical governance framework.
So, if this sounds like your ideal next challenge we want to hear from you today.
Main duties of the job
- To work with the CNS support, to assist in managing a caseload of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and, personalised direct patient care.
- Acting as a key worker to the patients and ensuring that their needs are identified and met, including carrying out Holistic Needs Assessments and the associated care plans- ensuring GP’s are aware of all care plans
- Run nurse led clinics, including prostate biopsies and PSA follow up clinics Run nurse led clinics designated to managing side effects from treatment including LUTs clinics, healthy bones and hot flushes.
- Work within the prostate CNS team, running nurse lead triage service for 2WW
- Liaise with other disciplines in order to utilise the expertise available to ensure patients with urology are provided with the highest quality care available. Provide cover across the service and within the team as appropriate. Support the development of the role according to patients changing needs and research findings, with the resources available.
- Maintain accurate records of the clinical service ensuring that confidentiality of information adhered to.
Working for our organisation
With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of this interesting and vital role , please see attached job description. We look forward to receiving your application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with NMC pin
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification (ENB 998 or equivalent)
- Undertaken specialist courses to develop knowledge and skills in cancer care provided both by Macmillan, local university partners, BAUN and EAUN
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of caring for patient with Urological conditions.
- Significant post-graduate experience.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable urology experience.
- Experience of working autonomously & part of a team
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Chappel
- Job title
- Head Nurse for Urology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01702 385369
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