Job summary
- Main area
- Breast Care
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 396-6434416-MA-SMB
- Employer
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Kingston upon Thames
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Breast Cancer CNS
Band 8a
Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
We employ just under 5000 staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.
The South West London Collaborative Bank
Kingston Hospital is a part of the local South West London Collaborative and offer competitive bank rates to work across the three NHS trusts: St Georges, Kingston Hospital and Epsom & St Helier. Our Smart App booking system makes life easier for flexible working!
Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits
The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and invests heavily in the wellbeing of its staff. Alongside opportunities for career development, there is a dedicated team of Staff Pastoral Wellbeing Practitioners who work with the Clinical and Corporate divisions, to provide pastoral support to all staff. These Practitioners are part of the wider Health & Wellbeing provision which includes a specialist Staff Physiotherapist, Occupational Health and access to counselling and an Employee Assistance Programme. The team works together to enhance staff wellbeing and to promote a healthy work-life balance.
Recent awards:
- Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 – Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year
- HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019
- NHSE National Healthcare Support Worker Award for Innovation and Excellence in Pastoral Support – 2023
- NHSE London Healthcare Support Worker Award for Sustainable Retention Initiative – 2023
Trust Values
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:
- Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
- Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients
Job overview
- An opportunity has arisen for a motivated, dynamic and committed experienced breast clinical nurse specialist (CNS) to join our friendly breast unit, leading the breast CNS's and working in partnership with five breast surgeons, a nurse consultant and her team of four two advanced nurse practitioners (ANP), a senior surgical practitioner nurse and the lead breast cancer ANP.
- You will join an established breast care nursing team. We facilitate high quality specialist nursing care to all patients with breast cancer and their families and friends, from diagnosis, during adjuvant treatments (surgery including breast reconstruction, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted/ biological treatments, endocrine treatments and bisphosphonate treatment), after treatment helping them to move forward and those who develop a recurrence or metastatic disease, working alongside the metastatic breast CNS team.
- You will play an active part in leading the current breast CNS team, clinical practice, education, research/audit and the implementation of local and national guidelines. You will work with the lead breast cancer ANP and breast nurse consultant to make quality improvements in the provision of breast cancer services.
- As a clinical nurse specialist, you will act as resource to other health care professionals on breast cancer treatments and supportive care issues. Kingston Hospital’s breast service is an active member of the RM Partners group South East London cancer alliance.
Main duties of the job
- Leads the development, management and promotion of the breast clinical nurse specialist team and service, ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care.
- Contributes to the identification of service objectives, annual report and annual work plan for the service supported by the lead breast cancer ANP and wider senior breast management team.
- Care, support, provision of information, signposting and referral to other agencies for patients with breast cancer from diagnosis, through adjuvant and metastatic treatments.
- Liaising with the breast multidisciplinary team to ensure a seamless service.
- Facilitate nurse led clinics for Holistic Needs Assessments (HNAs), patient f/u for discussion of treatments (e.g. breast reconstruction) and the lymphoedema service for mild to moderate lymphoedema.
- Facilitate the partnership external breast support services delivered onsite; Micropigmentation service and external breast prosthesis service.
- Facilitate on any health and well-being courses for patients once initial hospital treatment have finished in partnership with the survivorship breast ANP team.
- Development of further nurse led services in keeping with local and national evidence-based initiatives.
- Set standards for breast cancer nurse training. Support and mentor your CNS team taking higher level breast cancer or other relevant qualifications.
Working for our organisation
Trust Culture and Values
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other. To support this our four values are that we are all:
Caring – we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants Safe – we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first) Responsible – all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
And that we:
Value each other – we all value each other’s contribution.
Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in leading and influencing change in a team
- Minimum 3 years relevant post registration experience, at Band 7 in breast cancer nursing.
Desirable criteria
- IR(ME)R training
Formal education
Essential criteria
- RGN, Post-registration qualifications in: cancer/chemotherapy care, Breast cancer or other relevant subjects (ENB 998, 237)
- Masters degree or working towards Masters degree
Desirable criteria
- IRMER qualificaiton
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Quinnen
- Job title
- Interim Deputy General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8934 2389
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