Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your career in an innovative and challenging role?

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Registered Nurse to join our Cancer Services.
The Cancer Educator will work with professionals across all disciplines, health and social care and other organisations to train and educate individuals and teams to deliver excellent cancer care and support to anyone affected by cancer. They will contribute to the delivery of the national cancer agenda.

Main duties of the job

The Cancer Clinical Educator is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs and resources for healthcare professionals involved in cancer care. This role aims to enhance clinical competencies, promote evidence-based practice, and improve patient outcomes through high-quality education and training.

Communicate and collaborate effectively with clinical teams and other clinical educators in the Trust, to provide high quality, patient centred, research based education that ensures the delivery of high quality care for patients delivered by staff who have the required education and development to meet the patient needs in accordance with individual scope of professional practice , guidelines and code of conduct and standards which is defined by their UK regulator ( NMC / HCPC).

Develop and regularly review a training needs analysis for the teams responsible for delivering personalised care to patients.

Ensure effective and tactful two way communication of complex and sensitive information, related to individual's performance.

Able to utilise a range of interpersonal skills to deliver training including listening to others and sharing information.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment.Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Important Information

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

For candidates applying using a Hotmail account or have strict firewall settings please ensure the following:

• Junk Mail is checked regularly

Disclosure and Barring Service:

On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.

The changes mean that:

• youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
• the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.

If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.

Nacro Tel: 0300 123 1999, or email: helpline@nacro.org.uk

Unlock Tel: 01634 247350, email advice@unlock.org.uk or complete the online form on the Unlock website

The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: �18 + Administration cost of �3.85 = �21.85. Deducted at �6.85 from 1st month salary and �5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

Enhanced Check: �38 + administration cost of �3.90 = �41.90. Deducted at �11.90 from 1st month salary and �10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.

A lease car may be available for this position further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

Excellent opportunities for development

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies

EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

These schemes are subject to availability

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant professional degree.
• Specialist knowledge in cancer care to masters equivalent level
• Specialist professional knowledge of mentorship, education and development practice to masters equivalent level
• NMC registration
• Certificate in education or equivalent teaching certificate
• Mentor Qualification

Desirable

• Leadership course
• SACT qualification/ chemotherapy administration

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience and ability to demonstrate clinical skills, knowledge, credibility and expertise within cancer care.
• Evidence of teaching, coaching staff
• Recent evidence-based clinical Practice

Desirable

• Oncology experience

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

• To provide clinical expertise and education to health professionals
• Experienced in caring for cancer Patients
• Ability to apply advance theoretical knowledge to the clinical setting and educational environment
• Ability to transfer and adapt skills from previous knowledge and experience
• Proven skills in delivering education, presentations and group facilitation
• Facilitate the development of both experienced and junior staff across all disciplines providing support and assistance in their own professional development and academic development
• To have knowledge of current relevant NHS policy in relation to cancer care
• Effective verbal and non-verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• To have proven organisational skills

Personal Circumstances

Essential

• To take responsibility in upholding absolute professionalism and confidentiality at all times
• Demonstrates integrity, reliability and trustworthiness
• Reinforces a motivated, diligent and enthusiastic approach to work
• Supportive to members of the multi-professional team
• Demonstrates excellent clinical knowledge and enthusiasm to work alongside healthcare staff in the clinical areas
• Promotes staff to demonstrate a helpful, caring and empathic attitude towards patients, relatives and colleagues
• Works co-operatively with others
• Documented evidence of participation in educational service improvement

Desirable

• Documented evidence of participation in educational service improvement

Other requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel independently to all areas within North Cumbria Integrated Care trust as required
• Ability to deal with conflict
• Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity

Employer details

Employer name

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Across site working.

Carlisle

CA2 7HY

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