Band 6/7 Cancer Rehab Clinical Nurse Specialist
Cancer Rehab Clinical Nurse Specialist (Band 6/7 dependent on experience)
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is excited to announce a new opportunity for a Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Berkshire Cancer Centre. We are looking for a dynamic, well-motivated and compassionate nurse with experience in cancer care to support the services provided by the cancer rehabilitation and wellbeing team.
This role offers opportunities to develop your skills to become an autonomous and independent practitioner in an interesting and fast-moving field of oncology. This is an exciting time to join the team as we increase our nurse-led working to enhance the care for people with cancer.
The post holder will be part of the cancer rehabilitation and wellbeing team, working alongside the wider multidisciplinary team supporting patients diagnosed with cancer. You will be able to undertake further professional development to support you in your future career progression.
We strongly encourage informal visits, email, or telephone contact about the post.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) support people diagnosed with cancer by providing expert advice, psycho-social support, and information on their disease, investigations, treatment, and follow-up care. The cancer rehabilitation and wellbeing team works alongside the site-specific CNS team to enhance the services for these patients, leading to improved cancer experience and outcomes.
The CNS team helps to care for patients at all stages of their cancer journey and through a variety of treatments in a kind, compassionate manner. The team is committed to the development and delivery of high-quality holistic patient care. They play an active part in clinical practice, management of patient caseload, education, research, audit, and professional activities relating to cancer care.
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities of the role include:
* Working as an expert in the clinical field to deliver specialist clinical services to patients with cancer.
* Providing holistic needs assessment and individualized compassionate care.
* Responsible for the delivery of patient-focused programmes of care, addressing the complex and changing health and well-being needs of this patient group.
* Working with other professional groups in secondary and primary care.
* Providing specialist, interdisciplinary education and training to other staff and students.
* Working strategically to influence and drive the development of the service both locally and nationally.
* Participation in/leading clinical audit in own area.
* Participating in and facilitating/undertaking research in the specialist field.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse (Pt 1/12)
* Educated to a minimum of 1st degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Advanced communication skills training
* Post-basic qualification in cancer/palliative care/relevant subject
* Recognised teaching qualification
Experience
* Relevant post-registration experience in cancer or appropriate specialty
* Experience in facilitation/teaching/assessing
* Experience of successful change management
* Experience of multiprofessional team working
* Demonstrates ability to place patient and family at the centre of care
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.
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