Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
37.5 Hours per week
Permanent
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Registered Nurse to develop advanced nursing skills within a Macmillan supported personalised approach to cancer care. Working with the HPB Cancer multidisciplinary team you will play a key role in contributing to this high quality patient centred tertiary service including involvement and participation at weekly MDT meetings and outpatient clinics.
The successful candidate will have previous post registration clinical experience in the care of patients with Liver and HPB cancer. Applicants should possess excellent literacy, communication, organisational and leadership skills and should be prepared to work within a flexible working environment. Post graduate education, teaching and mentoring skills plus good IT skills are required.
As part of the Hepatobiliary Cancer Specialist Nursing Team you will be supported and given the opportunity to complete the advanced communication skills course and will develop skills to personalise care through undertaking Holistic Needs Assessments. You will be encouraged to develop an understanding of the psycho-social needs of those affected by Primary Liver cancer, including carers, developing an understanding and application of the Living with and Beyond Cancer strategy (2015).
Your role will adopt a strategic approach to both inpatient and outpatient care, resulting in interventions which aim to pre-empt potential problems in the clinical areas and in the community and minimize periods of crisis for patients, and their carers. A significant strength of the role will be supporting colleagues to cross professional boundaries in both primary and secondary care with the confidence and competence to work autonomously, utilising a wide degree of clinical assessment and clinical decision making skills.
For further information / informal visit please contact: Jane Williams ADN Gastroenterology on 07929529761 or HPB Cancer Team on 0151 529 4803.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Please see attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.
Clinical Responsibilities
• Perform specialist assessment of patients nursing needs, plan, implement and
evaluate care delivery using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills.
• Lead clinical care by managing a patient caseload providing expert assessment,
planning and evaluation.
• Co-ordinate and manage nurse-led clinics (within Specialty).
• Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patients
within the specialist area, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and
discharge arrangements.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers /
relatives.
• Support patients and their families and ensure that they receive the required
information to enable them to self manage, lead or participate in their care
delivery.
• Recognise changes in patients condition that require the intervention of others
and refer on as appropriate.
• To support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving patient
problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.
• To lead the specialist nursing contribution to the service, in the delivery of high
standards of patient care.
• To lead the specialist nursing contribution to the service, work in partnership with
lead clinicians, General Managers, Matron to ensure the delivery of high
standards of patient care.
• Work with the Matron to promote the development of nurses undertaking the
CNO ‘Ten Key Roles’ as considered appropriate e.g. Nurse Prescribing.
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Dec 2024