Employer: University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Town: Bournemouth
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 23:59
Upper GI/Hepatobiliary Cancer Nurse Specialist
Band 7
As University Hospitals Dorset, we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches, you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work. We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
As a Trust, we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, motivated individual to work as part of our established Upper GI/Hepato-biliary Nurse Specialist team at University Hospitals Dorset. The position is based on the Bournemouth site, however there is the potential for cross site working as we align our pathways.
This is a very rewarding, privileged role which encompasses every aspect of the patient’s cancer journey. You will become an integral part of the Upper GI/HPB team, delivering a high-quality patient centred service acting as the patient’s key worker. The CNS team strive to ensure a coordinated and multi-professional approach to diagnosis, treatment, planning and care provision for all patients and their families diagnosed or suspected to have a Upper GI/HPB malignancy.
If you are passionate about “providing the excellent care we would expect for our own families”, have demonstrable success in working as part of a multi-professional team and share our vision for further developing and improving the experience of patients and their families, we would like to hear from you.
This role requires NMC Registration
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
Prerequisites of the role include excellent communication and organisational skills as well as the ability to work well as part of a team but also autonomously.
You will become a core member of the specialist cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team and will require skills and strategies to help you multitask and prioritise your workload through the busy working day.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Act as key worker and utilise expert knowledge to provide comprehensive specialist advice, information and psychological support to patients and their families with a diagnosis of Upper GI/HPB cancer. Facilitating evidence-based, patient-centred care for a defined caseload of patients who have complex needs.
In partnership with the existing Upper GI Cancer Specialist Nursing team, this autonomous role will coordinate investigations and treatment and provide support to Upper GI/Hepatobiliary (HPB) cancer patients and their carers/families from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis, throughout treatment and follow-up care or palliation.
The CNS for Upper GI/HPB cancer will be responsible for the development of innovative nursing practice and the provision of specialist advice within their field. They will be an educational resource to all members of the MDT and the wider Trust and facilitate the development of nurses and healthcare staff in order to improve the patient experience.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC registered Nurse
* First degree or equivalent
* Advanced communication skills
* Master’s degree/relevant modules or willingness to work towards
* Level 2 Psychological Skills Training
* Non-medical prescriber
Experience
* Demonstrable experience in Upper GI/HPB nursing
* Experience of being accountable for the delivery of a clinical/nursing service
* Experience of audit and research
* Experience of teaching
Skills
* Technical/clinical competencies relevant to Upper GI/HPB nursing
* Knowledge of EPR, Dorset Care Record and Care & Health Information Exchange
Experience
* Experience running Nurse Led Clinics
Please note: Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Sarah Trickett
Job title: Upper GI/HPB Clinical Cancer Specialist Nurse
Email address: [emailprotected]
Telephone number: 0300 019 4340
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