Main area Head and Neck Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (28 hours a week)
Hours Part time - 28 hours per week (Negotiable to cover Main Clinics)
Job ref 225-DIV1-6434763-D
Employer The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Head and Neck Out Patient Department
Town Wolverhampton
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 10/04/2025 23:59
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a Registered General Nurse to join the Head and Neck CNS team for maternity leave cover over a 12 month period.
In this role, you will work closely with the Head and Neck Clinical Nurse Specialists and other members of the Multi-Professional Team to support the patient throughout their Head and Neck Cancer Journey.
We require an enthusiastic, forward-thinking, and motivated member of staff to join this busy service. This role will give you an excellent understanding of the Head and Neck Cancer patients' experience and help build on your knowledge and skills to deliver high-quality care.
The ideal candidate will have Head and Neck and/or oncology experience and would have some knowledge in the care of the Head and Neck Cancer patient.
Following a local induction, you will help provide support, education, and specialist advice to patients, carers, and health professionals in Head and Neck Cancer. Excellent communication skills are essential to the role as you will be expected to work autonomously with the support of the CNS and multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
1. Be the key worker for the duration of the patients' head and neck cancer journey from diagnosis through to completion of treatment.
2. Assess patients and plan, implement, and evaluate care using specialist clinical knowledge and skills.
3. Review patients and provide care in inpatient, outpatient, and community settings.
4. Contribute to a multidisciplinary approach to patient management.
5. Provide education and support to patients, carers, and colleagues in tracheostomy and valve care.
6. Participate in audit, research, and service development within the Head and Neck service.
7. Refer patients to members of the multi-professional team and community for ongoing support and advice as required.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute, and community services. We are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC and have achieved numerous awards, including The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Ensure a high standard of safe clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, national legislation, and local standards.
2. Take personal responsibility for actions and omissions and fully recognise personal accountability.
3. Practise within an ethical framework based upon dignity and respect for the well-being and safety of patients and clients.
4. Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence-based practice within own work area.
5. Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols, standards, policies, and clinical guidelines within own work area.
6. Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback, and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.
7. Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients, and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies, and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis.
8. Demonstrate effective communication within the multi-professional team regarding patient care.
9. Undertake interventional procedures with appropriate consent.
10. Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of practices and protocols to minimise those risks, including safe use of medical devices.
11. Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk.
12. Provide specialist advice to own and other professions on therapeutic interventions and clinical practice.
13. Implement practices that are appropriate to patient and service need through in-depth knowledge, implications of, and applying epidemiological, demographic, social, political, and professional trends and developments.
14. Lead by example, develop self and other staff, and influence the way care is given in a manner that is innovative, open, and responds to individual needs.
15. Provide clinical supervision to other staff.
16. Work harmoniously and effectively with colleagues, patients, and clients and their carers, families, and friends, seeking advice from senior practitioners as necessary.
17. Practise within the scope of personal professional competence and extend this scope as appropriate to service needs.
18. Delegate aspects of care to others and accept responsibility and accountability for such delegation.
19. Participate in peer review of own practice.
20. Day-to-day supervision/training of staff/students.
21. Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations, and audits and apply the information when seeking to improve practice.
22. Assess individuals holistically using a range of different assessment methods, use physical examination skills, and order diagnostic tests for the client group.
Person specification
Qualifications
* 3 years NMC qualification
* 18 months experience in Head and Neck Nursing or oncology
* Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service
* Qualified to degree level or working towards this level
* Evidence of mentorship or update
Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region, we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc), you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application, you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicants’ qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider.
Sponsorship - Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. As of 1 January 2021, free movement ended and the UK introduced a points-based immigration system. Further information is available regarding two types of visa; Health Care Visa Health Care Visa and Skilled Worker Visa Skilled worker visa.
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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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