We are recruiting for an Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for a highly motivated qualified nurse who can demonstrate current experience/significant experience at Band6/ 7 working in the field of Lung cancer or oncology care or screening.

You will be responsible for the day to day delivery of lung cancer care services within the trust as agreed with the Lead Nurse, in accordance of the Trust and national guidance.

You will work with patients being investigated and having a confirmed diagnosis of lung cancer or Mesothelioma , ensuring that national targets are meet in the delivery of the care.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

Liaising with all appropriate members of multi-disciplinary team and ensuring a seamless service between acute and primary care services

Communicating very sensitive condition related information to patients and relatives, requiring high levels of empathy and reassurance. This includes highly complex information that needs to be conveyed in easily understood language.

Ensuring the provision of appropriate verbal and written patient information, thus empowering the patient to make informed decisions.

Maintain own knowledge, competence and skill level through regular clinical supervision, appraisal, personal development plans and appropriate training programmes.

Work in partnership with other professional, health and social care organisations, trade union and voluntary sector organisations to embed these principles.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to ourcatchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

o The Lister Hospital, Stevenageo New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden Cityo Hertford County, Hertfordo Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformationand our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse education to Degree level or willingness to undertake
• Post registration qualification in speciality or experience
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Teaching qualification
• Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
• Advanced clinical assessment or willingness to undertake

Desirable

• Research Module Masters Degree

Previous experience

Essential

• Significant relevant experience in the Specialty or another and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
• Accept personal accountability for own practice
• Experience of formal/informal teaching
• Experience of initiating change
• Understanding evidence-based practice
• Experience of Clinical Governance
• Understanding of patient pathways and it's complexities and how to support patients through this

Skills

Essential

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to workload and colleague's needs
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
• Leadership skills
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload effective time - management
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead developments in practice
• Commitment to multi-disciplinary working
• Demonstrate analytical and judgmental skills
• Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly

Desirable

• Advanced communication skills

Other Requirements

Essential

• To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct
• Capable of developing liaisons with other practice areas/academic situations
• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day

Knowledge

Essential

• Respiratory knowledge
• Oncology knowledge
• IT literacy
• Advanced clinical assessment skills

Desirable

• Post registration qualification in speciality

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane,

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

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361-6713651