We are searching for a Personalised Care Project Lead with significant experience of working within the Cancer Nursing field. The post is a fixed term post for 12 months as a 1WTE working collaboratively between two sites. Two days will be onsite at East Cheshire Trust and two days will be onsite at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The successful applicant must have excellent communication skills and work well as part of a small team. Previous experience of working with cancer patients or within a cancer setting is essential.

East Cheshire and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are working in collaboration with Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance (CMCA) to ensure that all patients with cancer diagnoses have access to personalised care interventions Personalised Care and Support Planning is a core deliverable of the NHS Cancer Plan and ensures that patients and their families are supported to live with and beyond their cancer diagnosis.

Hours per week: 30 hours

Main duties of the job

The aim of this project is to ensure that Personalised Care and Support Plans (PCSP) (based on Holistic Needs Assessments (HNAs)) are available for all cancer patients, and data is submitted to Cancer Outcomes and Services Data set (COSD).

Personalised care has been identified as a key priority within the NHS Long Term Plan and the aim contributes to the overall Long-Term Plan personalised care ambition that: Where appropriate every person diagnosed with cancer will have access to personalised care, including needs assessment, a care plan and health and wellbeing information and support.

This project is for a period of 12 months ensuring that new and existing processes are embedded within clinical teams and sustainable at the end of the project.

The post holder will lead the development, coordination and implementation of the personalised care agenda, the community and work with primary care to increase awareness of signs and symptoms of secondary disease. The project will also support teams with patient stratified follow up ensuring all patients are given quality information in end of treatment summaries.

About us

Whether you are just starting out in your career or are looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, East Cheshire NHS Trust is the right employer for you. An organisation with a real sense of community we actively support and develop our staff to ensure our patients receive the best quality care, delivering the right care first time, every time.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters as part of ongoing monitoring.

Please be aware that this post requires an Enhanced with Barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, the cost of which is payable by the successful candidate. If you have lived or worked abroad for 6 months or more in the last 5 years you will need to obtain an overseas police clearance. Further information can be found on the additional information links at the bottom of the advert.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Applicant Pack prior to completing your application form to find out more information.

Please download a copy of the Job Description and Person Specification located under the Supporting documents heading to read more about the advertised role.

As part of making your application we encourage you to review the Trusts Careers webpage www.careersateastcheshire.nhs.uk for more information about working for East Cheshire NHS Trust.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. The Trust is a Disability Confident Leader and as such, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).

Applicants are advised to apply early as we reserve the right to close the advert prior to the advertised closing date should we receive a large number of applications.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• RGN/RN/RSCN
• Nursing Degree
• Masters level short courses in specialist area or evidence of working towards
• Teaching / mentoring qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Prince 2 qualification

Knowledge

Essential

• In-depth knowledge of recent NHS legislation, recommendations for specialist area
• Detailed awareness of the national and local priorities and changing trends in specialist area.
• Detailed awareness of the personalised care agenda within cancer services

Skills

Essential

• Ability to lead on service development working with all cancer specialities.
• The ability to create a comprehensive training package to staff of all levels.
• Ability to interpret complex facts or situations that require analysis, interpretation
• The ability to propose a range of options.
• Advanced communication, providing highly complex sensitive or contentious information, persuasive or negotiation skills.
• Ability to make appropriate decisions at all levels.
• Audit skills.
• Planning complex and varied activities.
• Ability to make adjustments to plans when required.
• Ability to prioritise workload, achieving a balance between clinical and other aspects of role.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of team.
• Proposing policy or service changes

Experience

Essential

• Proven post registration experience working with cancer patients
• Experience of planning and completing audit / research.
• Experience of teaching and mentoring of staff.
• Experience of undertaking projects
• Experience of implementing change

Other Role Requirements

Essential

• Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further details

Employer details

Employer name

East Cheshire NHS Trust

Address

Macclesfield District General Hospital

Victoria Road

Macclesfield

SK10 3BL

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