Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
* Acting as an expert resource for children, young people and their families and care givers, both lay and professional, on the treatment and nursing management of the cancer, and facilitate the education of staff concerning paediatric oncology and symptom management in partnership with the oncology team.
Main duties of the job
* Facilitate provision of 24-hour care and treatment for all children and young people with cancer who require admission to hospital or specialist day care treatment. This care will be based on evidence, safe, timely and appropriate to the individual child/young person, and will be delivered in an appropriate setting by appropriately trained staff.
* The postholder will provide nursing expertise in the specialist field of Paediatric oncology, working in partnership with internal and external agencies. She/He is an integral member of the Oncology team but does work independently under the supervision of the CNS, implementing care plans and making decisions within guidelines.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability.
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
5. Making equalities mainstream.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
CLINICAL
1. To assess and identify each child's / young person's and their families need for information, care and support throughout their cancer journey.
2. To provide information about investigations, treatment modalities, treatment options and their implications, making referrals to other health professionals and agencies as appropriate.
3. To deliver and to role model expert nursing care and evaluation of such care to children and young people with cancer, as per NHS England Paediatric Oncology Service Specifications.
4. To act as a point of contact for the families of children and young people with cancer, as well as for carers and other health professionals involved in their care, integrating hospital and community services.
5. To identify and discuss with sensitivity patients' issues and concerns acting as advocates for the child / young person where appropriate and respecting the diverse cultural backgrounds and requirements of individual families.
6. To promote health through the preparation and empowerment of children / young people and their families and the dissemination of health information relating to healthy lifestyles in relation to symptom control and treatment.
7. To establish and deliver educational programmes to family members enabling them to perform clinical procedures.
8. To establish links locally and nationally with organisations providing information and support for children with cancer.
9. To be fully competent and compliant with cytotoxic drug administration in line with Trust policy and national guidelines.
MANAGERIAL
1. To be fully aware of the targets set out in the NHS Plan and the Cancer Plan, the NSF for Children and Young People, Every Child Matters and in conjunction with others utilise available resources to meet these targets.
2. To maintain accurate records, ensuring confidentiality of all patient data.
3. To organise and manage the patient caseload and practice.
4. To identify supportive networks for self and relevant nursing staff and participate in clinical supervision.
5. To participate in the development and responsible for the implementation of policies relating to paediatric oncology care.
6. To actively participate in the MDT meetings to discuss and promote good practice in the clinical management of individual patients.
7. To establish and maintain good communications with all members of the extended multidisciplinary team.
8. Work together with the specialist oncology nurse team / medical colleagues to provide out of hours triage / advisory service to families, clinical areas and other MDT colleagues within agreed service arrangements.
9. To work collaboratively with the other Paediatric Oncology Nurse Specialists ensuring appropriate cover for services during period of A/L, sickness and study leave.
MANAGING PEOPLE & RESOURCES
All posts with responsibility for managing staff are expected to lead, motivate, develop and reward staff and are required to comply with the Trust's policies and Manager's Code of Conduct in the following areas:
1. To participate in the effective recruitment and selection of staff in line with the Trust's Recruitment Code and Recruitment & Retention Policies and standards.
2. Ensure performance issues are dealt with in an appropriate and timely manner and follow the Trust's Disciplinary or Capability Procedures.
3. To ensure the implementation of the Trust's Sickness Absence Policy through monitoring and management.
4. Ensure that satisfactory systems are in place to maintain effective communication within your area and be responsible for ensuring that any Trust Communications Systems are utilised.
5. To be aware of and act in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. This includes obtaining, processing or using information held on computer in a fair and lawful way, to hold data only for the specified registered purposes and to use and disclose data to authorised persons or organisations as instructed.
6. Observe and comply with the Trust's policies and procedures for Health and Safety ensuring the environment in which you work is safe, clean and tidy and comply with standard infection control precautions to prevent or minimise the spread of micro-organisms and communicable diseases to patients, staff and surrounding community.
7. Observe and continually promote equal opportunities in compliance with the Trust's policies on Equality and Diversity and Dignity at Work.
8. Assist with the budget management of the ward, ensuring that this is kept strictly within limits.
9. Ensure the benefits to patients are maximised through careful, economical and appropriate use of NHS resources including equipment, property, money, time, etc.
PROFESSIONAL
1. To maintain personal records of continuing professional development in order to meet NMC revalidation requirements.
2. Ensure that registration with professional body of self and staff is maintained.
3. To provide a professional image at all times and be accountable for own clinical practice.
4. To ensure documentation of care is in accordance with NMC guidelines.
5. To act in accordance with the NMC Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates.
Person specification
Essential Requirement e.g. RN Child
Essential criteria
* Tertiary Experience
Desirable criteria
* Masters
Professional Qualification
Essential criteria
* RN Child
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* Job Description (PDF, 678.2KB)
* Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)
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