Part time - 18.5 hours per week
Working as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), the Haematology Specialist Nurse will act as an autonomous, professional clinical practitioner. They will be responsible for providing specialist nursing services, as available within the cancer speciality.
The Haematology Specialist Nurse promotes clinical excellence and provides specialised advice and support to patients, carers, staff, and external partners. This must be in line with national trends and national strategy, ensuring specialist practice is patient centred and evidence based.
The Specialist Nurse will report to the Senior Cancer Nurse to ensure they contribute to the directorate and Trust strategic service development plans.
The Specialist Nurse will be expected to facilitate nurse led clinics and work autonomously conducting Holistic Needs Assessments at key points in the patient pathway.
Main duties of the job
* Support, by demonstrating exemplar nursing practice and the implementation of evidence-based care, the provision of a high standard of individualised patient care and experience, upholding the Trust Nursing Strategy which includes the 6Cs.
* Responsible for ensuring own knowledge and compliance with appropriate NMC standards and Trust professional guidelines, including NMC Revalidation.
* Ensure accurate and contemporaneous patient, staff, and other records are maintained, submitted, and stored meeting NMC requirements.
* Develop knowledge and skills to support discussions surrounding diagnosis, treatment options, and other issues pertinent to key stages within the cancer pathway, ensuring that services are developed and reviewed.
Job responsibilities
* Develop excellent communication skills to facilitate discussion of complex, sensitive, and emotive issues around cancer diagnosis, disease management, recurrence/progressive disease, and prognosis, referring to other practitioners when a patient's individual health outcomes are beyond own competence.
* Manage the care of patients with a suspected/confirmed diagnosis of cancer, providing specialist advice within a defined clinical area and assisting in the follow-up of patients following a cancer diagnosis.
* Counsel, educate, and empower patients and carers regarding management interventions, treatment options, and care, including explaining potential side effects of treatment and providing information regarding lifestyle adaptations (e.g., sun protection advice).
* Assess potentially highly complex patients, planning, implementing, and reviewing care within the hospital environment, both in-patient and out-patient, community, or other settings, liaising with external agencies as appropriate.
* Using holistic needs assessment, develop care plans, and implementation strategies through shared decision-making with patient and carer.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
* First level registration with NMC
* Demonstrate evidence of ongoing continuous professional development
* Teaching qualification
Desirable
* Management qualification
* Advanced Communication Course
* Degree qualification
Experience
Essential
* Relevant nursing experience to specialism (Haematology) or relevant transferable skills
* Experience working at Band 6
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
* Evidence of involvement in Clinical Governance
* Clinical Audit
Desirable
* Evidence of involvement in service users' advocacy and complaints resolution
* Project management experience
Knowledge and skills
Essential
* Demonstrate initiative
* Ability to work under pressure
* Confident and assertive whilst maintaining interpersonal sensitivity
Desirable
* Develops and implements policies
* Supports service initiatives and development
Employer details
Employer name: Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Haematology Department, Great Western Hospital, Marlborough Road, Swindon, SN3 6BB
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