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Job summary

Main area
Cancer Services
Grade
Band 7
Contract
12 months (Secondment or Fixed Term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
275-2504L&M-CNS
Employer
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medway Maritime Hospital
Town
Gillingham
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum/ pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/04/2025 23:59

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Lung and Mesothelioma Clinical Nurse Specialist

Band 7

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Job overview

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Lung and Mesothelioma Clinical Nurse Specialist 

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services 

Care Group: Cancer and Access

Band: 7

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/ pro rata

We are recruiting for a Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will be a named key worker with the expectation to work collaboratively with others to develop and use appropriate strategies and opportunities to share knowledge with, deliver interventions and influence the practice of colleagues within the Lung service. 

The role of the Lung and Mesothelioma Clinical Nurse Specialist is to be a dedicated key worker to adult patients diagnosed with a lung cancer, coordinating care between secondary and primary care, and between secondary and tertiary centres and providing continuity over time.  

The post holder will be responsible for the contributing to the on-going development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure inequalities in care are addressed for the patients of Medway and Swale.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Lung and Mesothelioma CNS will be a member of the Medway Lung Service working closely with the Lung consultants and Medical Oncology Consultants, along with the Macmillan CNS team to support individuals diagnosed with Lung cancer.

To actively participate as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team; attend MDT meetings and weekly ward rounds.  In conjunction with the MDT and support services, the post holder will assist with the co-ordination of the treatment pathway, incorporating information provision, physical and psychological support and completion of holistic needs assessments.

The post holder will provide specialist advice and support to provide co-ordinated high quality patient centred care for patients with UGI cancer during the cancer patient journey from diagnosis, treatment, follow up and palliative care both as an inpatient, outpatient and liaise with healthcare providers within the community setting,

To practice autonomously, applying specialist expertise and knowledge of Lung cancer in providing patient-centred care during the cancer patient journey (investigations, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up,  palliative care)

To be wholly accountable for own clinical practice; continually strive to expand professional expertise, knowledge and evidence-based practice by availing self of educational opportunities (seminars, conferences, tertiary courses); actively participate in professional organisations

To ensure that specialist counselling and health promotion are integrated into programmes of care and liaison is facilitated within MDT

To act as advocate for patients and respect diverse cultural backgrounds and needs

To offer a supportive service including signposting for counselling to patients and their family/friends or carers through their cancer patient journey in conjunction with other healthcare professionals, empowering patients to make informed choices and decisions.

To maintain Nurse-led clinic's whereby the concerns and needs of the patient's and their family/friends and carers are appropriately channelled

To look at project work to support remote clinics in Swale to support inequalities for cancer patients

Support with health promotion and work alongside the Personalised Care and Support Facilitator to support health and well being events and cancer awareness events.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse (Level 1) on the NMC Register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality
  • BSc Nursing or equivalent qualification/training and experience
  • Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience
  • Mentorship Course

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to clinically lead and influence staff
  • Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
  • Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of nursing
  • Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management and the escalation process

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of delivering patient advocacy and management of own caseload
  • Experience of audit, research and evidence based care
  • Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
  • Experience and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the National agenda for the speciality

Values Based Question

Essential criteria
  • Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good communication skills and ability to discuss sensitive information. Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage distressing and complex situations
  • Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give relevant information and advise to patients and relatives
  • Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and communication skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Louise Black
Job title
Macmillan Deputy Lead Cancer Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01634 833879
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