Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
The Urology Department has a vacancy for an enthusiastic, motivated, conscientious person to work alongside and under the guidance of a well-established team of Urology cancer nurse specialists.
You will be responsible for coordinating and delivering group patient education workshops alongside the specialist nurses. You will also be responsible for providing patients with holistic assessments, giving tailored information, signposting to other services such as health and wellbeing programmes, and coordinating their remote follow-up using a follow-up database system.
Within this role, there is scope for developing health promotion and education for patients with Urological cancers and for ensuring that patients are informed and signposted to services within primary and secondary care to enable them to live with and beyond cancer.
You should possess excellent communication skills; have experience of working in a healthcare setting and ideally with cancer patients.
For further information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Caroline Kelly, Uro-Oncology CNS at 01225 824250 or email carolinekelly2@nhs.net.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Coordination of care: Act as a single point of access to patients who are on self-managed follow-up pathways.
2. Proactively support and coordinate for the overall needs of patients on a patient-triggered follow-up pathway, using own judgment and escalating to the relevant practitioner as necessary.
3. Support and coordination of remote surveillance for patients on personalised stratified follow-up (PSFU) pathways to ensure risk-free survivorship.
1. Coordination and support for the development, delivery and evaluation of tailored information and self-management education: Coordinate access to personalised information and education resources for patients and their carers.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers and with a wide range of clinical and non-clinical stakeholders in secondary and community settings.
About Us
At the RUH, we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing, and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial wellbeing.
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team.
Job Responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Person Specification
* Diploma level qualification or experience/knowledge across a range of healthcare settings.
* Experience of working in an NHS setting.
* At least 3 GCSEs at grade C or Grade 4.
Application and Interview
* Knowledge and experience with various IT systems, Microsoft Office, Excel, spreadsheets, etc.
* Capable of presenting to a wider team.
* Knowledge of hospital computerised systems.
Application and Interview
* Ability to work to deadlines.
* Have an awareness of limitations.
* Be able to work at a PC for long periods.
* Friendly and approachable.
* Capable of organizing events such as Men's Health Awareness Week.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer Name
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
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