Urology Clinical Support Sister/Charge Nurse
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
To provide clinical excellence, leadership, innovation and facilitated learning, the post holder will have responsibility for leading and developing this speciality service to provide equitable care to patients presenting with urological cancers and act as a resource to carers, Multi-disciplinary colleagues and the primary health care team.
Please note, if you do not meet the essential criteria for a Band 6, you will be appointed as a Band 5 until all competencies and training requirements are met.
Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will manage a supervised caseload/client group providing highly specialist expert nursing advice, information and support to patients with urological cancer and their families at all stages of their disease and in particular whilst they are being cared for at South Tees NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust thus ensuring a smooth transition of care from primary surgery through to radiotherapy/chemotherapy and into the community, to discharge or death, thereby establishing links between the acute and primary care group, supporting both patient and carers.
The post holder will liaise with services within South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust and County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. They will liaise with other key partners such as Macmillan Cancer Support, Northern Cancer Alliance, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Primary Care Trusts, Social Services and Hospices to enable and ensure quality service provision for all patients under their care. They will provide assistance, support and health promotion advice to other staff, whilst improving clinical practice, enhancing service provision and streamlining patient focused care. The post holder will be an active core member of the multi-disciplinary team and network with other professionals, locally and nationally for the purpose of developing practice, research and audit, development of standardised patient information, and clinical supervision.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
* Knowledge of audit and research processes and its application
* Knowledge of the Clinical Governance agenda and NHS Plan
* Knowledge about the development of the specialist nurse role in a modern NHS
* In-depth level of knowledge of urological cancers and ongoing management
* Knowledge of strategic issues which influence management of cancer patients
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING B5
* Diploma or Degree in Adult Nursing.
* Registered as fit to practice by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Experience B5
* Experience of Multi-disciplinary working.
* Experience working within an acute or community setting
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING B6
* NMC level 1 registration
* 1st level degree or working towards
* Specialist qualification in cancer care/palliative care/urological nursing or willing to undertake
* Advanced communication skills course or willing to undertake
Experience B6
* Recent experience in cancer/urology nursing.
* Experience of input into audit
* Experience in managing change
* Experience of working within a busy clinical environment and within multidisciplinary teams.
* Experience in providing care for patients with urological cancer or other long term conditions
* Experience of developing protocols and guidelines
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.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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